Discussion on a common strategy(overview of preliminary implementation choices)

CEEweb workshopBudapest, June 11-12 2014

Faustine DefossezEEB

GreeningGOOD BAD

Ecological Focus Areas

Crops included

Additional management criteria

Latvia? France, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Netherlands, Denmark

Germany?

Environmentally sensitive pastures

In N2000

Out of N2000

Germany France, Denmark

France Croatia, Finland, Germany, Sweden, Denmark

Equivalence Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Latvia, Poland UK

Netherlands, France

Transfers between PillarsGOOD BAD

Pillar 1 to Pillar 2

France (3%)

Germany (4,5%)

Latvia (6,15%)

Netherlands (20 EUR m per annum)

England (12%)

Scotland (9,5%)

Wales (15%)

Sweden (no transfer)

Pillar 2 to Pillar 1

Croatia (15%)

Poland (25%)

Slovakia (21%)

A few other elements on implementation choices

Coupled supports are being popular especially for livestock and protein crops:

• Livestock support: Greece, Finland (for bulls and suckler cows), Poland (beef and sheep), Spain (beef, suckler cows, sheep, goat, dairy sectors), Scotland (beef), Bulgaria

• Proteins: France, Ireland, Latvia, Poland, Romania, Spain

• Others: Greece (cotton), Bulgaria (horticultures, vegetables)

A few other elements on implementation choices

• Former LFAs top up: Finland, Germany, UK (nothern Ireland) Germany (for farming on grasslands with disadvantaged areas) ,France (up to 15% farmers in mountainous areas)

• Small farmers scheme: Austria, Germany, Latvia, Poland, Slovenia, Spain, UK (northern Ireland)

TimetablePillar 1 Pillar 2

23rd of April Partnership agreement to be sent to the EC

End of June Publication of delegated acts and implementing acts Publication of delegated acts and implementing acts

23rd of July Draft RD sent to the EC

1st of August 2014 Information on greening implementation :-EFAs eligible elements-Use of conversion matrix-Collective or regional implementation of EFAs-Equivalence schemes (Commission shall assess)Information on flexibility-For MS that have not modulated in 2014, they can notify the EC for the period 2015-2019

1st October 2014 Additional management criteria for nitrogen fixing crops

15th of December 2014 Designation of strictly protected grasslands outside of N2000

15th of December of each year

New environmentally sensitive grasslands areas outside of N2000Set of information to the EC on implementation