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Financial incentives to facilitate enforcement
Véronique Schmit
Enforcement of European Animal Welfare Related Legislation – 12 &13 June 2012
The Common Agricultural Policy
2 types of subsidies
• Direct payments: to compensate farmers for low income; 100% EU funds
• Rural development support: to help farmers engage in specific activities; co-funded – generally 50% EU & 50 % national funds
Incentives for enforcement under direct payments
2 mechanisms:• Cross-compliance:
- For all direct support
- For specific RD support: agri- environment, animal welfare payment
• Special support under Article 68:
- for enhanced animal welfare
Cross-compliance
• Respect of 3 animal welfare directives as a condition to receive CAP subsidies:
- General farm directive
- Pigs Directive
- Calves Directive
• Subsidies can be retained/reduced
• Negligence; minor non-compliance
Cross-compliance: reductions in case of negligence
• Non-compliance resulting from the negligence of the farmer: reduction of 3 % of the total amount – but paying agency can decide it to be 1%, 5% or 0%
• Farmers must remedy to the situation within a given deadline set by the Competent authority. At the latest by end of following year.
• If repeated non-compliance due to negligence, then reduction must be applied
Cross-compliance inspection results
UK (England)• Welfare of calves: 17 failures found in 2011Ex: insufficient or no bedding
• Welfare of pigs: 15 failures found in 2011Ex: No permanent access to clean drinking water; No clean, comfortable lying area
• General farm animal welfare: 120 failures found in 2011Ex: sick animals did not receive adequate care; inappropriate feeding; staff with no proper skills
Incentives for enforcementunder rural development
Axis 1 measures:
• Meeting standards
• Modernisation of agricultural holdings
• Vocational training
• Participation in food quality schemes
• Use of advisory services
Axis 2:
• Animal welfare payments
Additional incentives: State aid
• At national level • Approved by the European Commission• Following the rules of rural development support
Ex: Laying hens: France, Bulgaria
Sow stalls: France
Conditions:
Max 40% of investment cost
Period of grace of 36 months may be provided
CAP reform proposals
• Cross-compliance: status-quo and exemption for small farmers scheme
• Rural development: no measure
“Meeting standards”; animal welfare payments not compulsory
• Investments under RD do not cover adaptation to meet standards
Eurogroup demands
• Cross-compliance : – Requirements to include all animal welfare directives:
laying hens, meat chickens
– No exemption for small farmers scheme
– Data obtained from the application of cross-compliance to be used to improve enforcement
• Rural development: – animal welfare payments to be compulsory
– All measures to be used to improve animal welfare and thus enforcement with current rules
Thank you
For more information:
Financial incentives to facilitate enforcement
Enforcement of European Animal Welfare Related Legislation – 12 &13 June 2012