CONCLUSIONS OF
WORKSHOP 1.DIRECT
PAYMENTS AND CMO
Layout of workshop 1
• Two subgroups:
• Direct payments
• Common Market Organisation
• Discussions based on questionaires sent to
the participants
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Survey on simplification of Direct payments
• Questionnaire with 22 proposals
• Indicate whether a proposal is relevant to your Paying
Agency (PA) and, whether you support implementation of
the proposal
(3 possible answers: YES; NO; N/A)
• Evaluate the impact of the proposed solution on:
• reduction of costs for the PA
• reduction of the error rate
• reduction of costs for farmers
(Used grades from 1 to 5, where 1 is little impact, 5 very significant reduction)
• Evaluation of additional proposals
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Top issues to be dealt in nearest future
• Abolish requirement for establishing EFA-catch crops as a
mixture of crop spices. Amendments to Article 45 (9) of
Regulation (EU) No 639/2014.
• Do not require to include in the EFA-layer of the LPIS EFAs
that are not declared by farmers and EFAs on disposal of
farmers exempted from EFA maintenance. Only EFAs
declared by farmers should be included in the EFA-layer of
the LPIS. Amendments to Section 3.1 of EFA layer guidance
(DSCG/2014/31-FINAL).
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Top issues to be dealt in nearest future
• Increase the tolerance for overdeclarations from 0.1ha to
0.5 ha. Amendment to Article 18 (6) of Regulation (EU) No
640/2014.
• Do not require to include in the EFA-layer of the LPIS EFAs
situated on arable land that are not truly stable ( e.g. fallow,
field margins, catch crops and nitrogen fixing crops). Do
not apply 3-year-principle on those types of EFAs.
Amendments to Commissions guidance document
(DSCG/2014/31 Rev2-FINAL).
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Top issues to be dealt in nearest future
• If a farmer is selected for the on the spot check for the greening,
only one visit per farmer is envisaged. During the check all
available elements of greening are checked and there are no
additional controls for the elements which can not be checked at
the date of the control.
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Issue to be included in Presidency summary
on simplification for the Council
• Basic payment scheme and IACS related Rural development
measures shall have the same selection for on the spot checks.
Minimum 5% level of checks shall be established at the level of
beneficiaries not the measures.
• Gains:
• If a farm is selected for on the spot check, all IACS support
measures are checked on the farm
• Smaller total number of farms to be subjected to area related on the
spot checks – reducuced number of visit
• Simplified selection for on the spot checks
• During the check controler can check all the elements, not only the
ones selected for control
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COMMON MARKET
ORGANIZATION SUBGROUP
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Survey on simplification of CMO measures
• Questionnaire with 31 proposal, organized into 7 groups
• Evaluate the impact of the proposed solution on:
• reduction of costs for the PA
• reduction of costs for clients
(Used grades from 1 to 5, where 1 is no or little impact, 5 very significant reduction)
• Provide additional proposals, important to your PA
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Top CMO issues to be dealt in nearest future
• Abolishing of “nil reports”
• Safety-net measures: simple and stable rules, which can be
implemented easily and quickly
• Operational programmes for Fruit & Veg: guidelines for eligible
costs, recognition criteria
• School schemes: future merging, harmonization of controls
• On-the-spot CMO controls: risk-based approach rather than
percentage
• Harmonization of sCMO rules: control principles, sanctions,
interest rates
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Issue to be included in Presidency summary
on simplification for the Council
Harmonization of the control period and the school year for the
School Fruit Scheme, using the same approach as in the School
Milk Scheme
Gains:
• Reduction of administrative burden both for applicant and for
paying agency
• Simplification of the existing system of physical checks
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THANK YOU FOR
YOUR ATTENTION!
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