Towards the backdrop of ongoing farmers’ protests and in accordance with knowledge from the Belgian presidency and a non-paper on simplification ready through the Ecu Fee, agriculture ministers mentioned the present disaster and demanding situations within the sector.
The Council showed its political will to reply successfully to the troubles of farmers and, as a primary step, agreed on a collection of concrete measures that are supposed to be a concern for the temporary reaction to the present disaster, and introduced political steering for the best way ahead and for a structural means within the medium and long run.
The priorities for simplification measures we agreed on will cut back the executive burden on farmers and provides them the versatility they want. We also are taking a look forward to the longer term, to toughen farmers’ place within the meals provide chain, whilst making sure we admire our environmental sustainability commitments.
All over its assembly, the Council welcomed contemporary choices introduced through the Fee equivalent to:
- the partial exemption from regulations on land mendacity fallow,
- the so-called just right agricultural and environmental situation same old 8 (GAEC 8),
- the withdrawal of the proposal for a legislation at the sustainable use of insecticides (SUR),
- and the extra safeguards within the proposed renewal of the self sufficient industry measures for imports from Ukraine.
As a part of their alternate of perspectives the Council mentioned the temporary measures geared toward simplification and decreasing the executive burden farmers are going through and wired that the EU will have to react to the farmers’ considerations.
A few of the movements agreed upon through the Council now we have:
- Adjustments to the foundations at the GAEC 1 same old, which imposes a demand to stay spaces of everlasting grassland solid in comparison to the reference yr 2018. Underneath GAEC 1, former farm animals farmers with massive spaces of grassland who have been pressured through marketplace disturbances within the meat and dairy sector to shift to arable crop manufacturing may well be requested to reconvert their arable land into everlasting grassland. This might result in a lack of source of revenue for the ones farmers. Due to this fact, the Council welcomed the proposal through the Fee to amend the GAEC 1 regulations through mid-March to make certain that structural adjustments brought about through a discount in farm animals are taken into consideration and that farmers with out farm animals aren’t obliged to reconvert arable land to pasture or grassland.
- GAEC 6: the Council invited the Fee to check the practices which might be imaginable to hide soils, in an effort to bear in mind regional traits, in order that farmers can get pleasure from larger flexibility. The Fee will assessment this chance and put up tips in April.
- Upcoming assessment of the method for assessing the high quality of the House Tracking Machine (AMS). The AMS is a device in accordance with the automatic research of satellite tv for pc imagery from Copernicus. This revision, due in March 2024, will considerably lend a hand cut back the choice of on-farm visits through nationwide administrations, in some circumstances through 50% or extra.
- To post an explanatory be aware to provide an explanation for and explain using the so-called power majeure or remarkable instances idea.This idea guarantees that farmers who can not fulfil all their CAP necessities because of remarkable and unforeseeable occasions outdoor in their keep watch over (equivalent to in circumstances of serious droughts or floods) wouldn’t have consequences imposed on them. The e-newsletter of this be aware was once well-received through agriculture ministers, who had prior to now wired the significance of making improvements to verbal exchange with farmers and making sure that they have got good enough details about CAP enhance.
Except those temporary movements geared toward simplifying the day by day lifetime of farmers and decreasing the executive burden for farmers and nationwide administrations alike, ministers wired {that a} long-term means could also be important. The Council due to this fact insisted to inspect tactics of making improvements to the location of farmers within the mid- to long-term, together with their place within the meals provide chain.
The Council additionally insisted {that a} assessment of the fundamental acts of the Not unusual Agricultural Coverage is important. This assessment will have to be initiated once imaginable.
February 26, 2024/ Consilium/ Ecu Union.
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