The Ministry of Agriculture and the directors of the Autonomous Communities have closed on Tuesday an agreement to implement the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy and in particular on how to collect the CSF. For Spain, the PAC will the entry of 35,700 million in direct grants 2020 and 8.291 million for rural development.
One of the key points of the reform was embodied in that direct payments were a priority to real farming. That is, the active workers living mainly from farming and not those who have abandoned land. In the end, the distribution of payments between community advocates agreed stability against the current situation and the oscillations will not exceed 0.67 %.
In this direction, Brussels had already excluded from payments to large stores in airports, golf courses, other sporting facilities or the construction land and left open the door to each country to exclude other surfaces.
In Spain, the agreement provides that the aid is only for land farming. For those dedicated to agriculture, it is necessary that the same is done, at least one work a year, whether cultivated or fallow, and that the applicant has the support documents for the work done. If pasture is necessary that the parcels are subject to the relevant register of livestock farm, the load of animals is in relation to the surface, at least one cow per hectare and pastures are not already hundreds of kilometers of the farm, as is the case today in many cases.
In addition to these requirements for qualifying active farmer is necessary that the relief requested by the sensors does not exceed 80 % of all farm income. Agriculture initially proposed 90% and agricultural organizations applied for increased aid for those living were borne mainly on the field. This measure represents savings of EUR 550 million that will go to the hands of the recipients of that region.
Sector Conference also agreed the fate of 585 million euros in payments linked to production for problem areas such as beef cattle, suckler cows, sheep, goats beet, rice, tomato industry, shell fruits, legumes and protein crops quality. The bulk of support corresponding to the suckler cow with 187 million and 154 sheep. Regarding the current status of such payments is the incorporation of beet, with 16.8 million to stem the decline in culture.
Additionally, the partition of the territory between 22 and 24 regions where there must be a certain convergence of aid, but not its name was decided was studied. Similarly, the distribution of funds for rural development with a maximum swing of 10% from the current deal is agreed. About 2,000 farmers convened by UPA demonstrated outside the Ministry for aid go exclusively to professionals and cultivated land.
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