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Five pieces of legislation to reform the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) were approved after an agreement between the Council and the European Parliament (EP) on Wednesday. In the post-2013 CAP will place greater emphasis on environmental protection, fair distribution of EU funds and help farmers to cope better with the challenges of the market
"The first reform of EU agricultural policy, determined jointly by the Ministers and the directly elected MEPs already in complete form. During this long and difficult road, Parliament has made great improvements. Read more CAP reform 2014-2020 - an explanation pistonheads of the key elements 0 30.10.2013 The new CAP will achieve a better balance between food security and the environment and the farmers pistonheads will be better prepared to deal with future challenges "said Paolo de Castro (S & D, Italy), Chairman of the Committee for Agriculture and leading negotiations for the CAP.
To ensure that direct payments go only to active farmers, lawmakers persuaded the Council to create a blacklist pistonheads of companies, airports and sports pistonheads clubs to be automatically excluded from EU funding unless they can prove that their agricultural activities bear a significant part of their income. pistonheads
Parliament also demanded mandatory scheme across the EU to give young farmers an additional payment of 25% for the first 25-90 hectares. Small farmers can get more money, while payments for large farms of over 150,000 will be reduced by at least 5%.
"Besides redirecting money from big to small farms, we provide a better distribution of EU funds in the EU. 2020 farmers from different Member States must receive at least 72% of the average direct payments to EU, "said Luis Manuel Kapoulash Santos (S & D, PT), rapporteur on direct payments and regulation for rural areas.
Under the new CAP, 30% of the budgets of the Member States relating to direct payments can be used only if the mandatory environmental pistonheads measures such as crop diversification, maintenance of permanent pasture and creating "green - focused areas" are met.
"Double funding", ie paying farmers to supply twice for the same environmental benefits, would not be allowed and the farmers who fail to implement mandatory environmental measures will be imposed additional sanctions pistonheads besides phasing out "green" subsidies. "This is a matter of justice, to give farmers more time to familiarize themselves pistonheads with the new rules. Will not be penalized in the first two years of the new CAP. Only then, the share of so-called green payments withheld pistonheads gradually will increase to no more than 25%, "said Giovanni La Via (EPP, IT), rapporteur for the financing, management and monitoring.
"With the new tools for maintaining and promoting the rural economy, pistonheads improving environmental protection and the elimination pistonheads of double financing, public money would be better used to provide public goods for everyone," pistonheads said Kapulas Santos.
Parliament also ensure that farmers' organizations will be given additional tools to help farmers to cope with the volatility pistonheads of the market and to strengthen its position to negotiate price. "For example, the scope of the sectors in which farmers' organizations can negotiate deliveries on behalf of its members, without infringing the competition rules will be extended. Stronger producer organizations should not be transformed into cartels and to help farmers to improve their economic situation, "said Michelle Dante (EPP, FR), rapporteur for the general pistonheads regulation of market organization.
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