A single annual administrative inspection established in agricultural holdings

The government has officially announced the implementation of a single annual administrative inspection of farms, with the publication of a decree in the Official Journal. This measure provides for the creation, in each department, of a body responsible for coordinating the various on-site inspections, in order to simplify procedures for farmers.

This reform responds to a long-standing demand from agricultural unions, in a context marked by the crisis in the sector and the mobilizations of the winter of 2024-2025. The objective is to limit the multiplication of inspections and to make the procedures more transparent, by grouping administrative interventions into a single annual visit per farm.

A structured simplification of controls

The system will come into effect the day after the decree is published and aims to better organize the interventions of the various government departments. The departmental body will be responsible for coordinating inspections and centralizing information, in order to avoid redundancies and repeated requests.

However, this simplification does not apply to all checks. Certain controls, particularly tax, social security, labor law, and administrative policing checks, remain excluded from the system and may continue to be carried out independently, outside of this annual coordination.