Penalties imposed on Ireland for poor management of its parcel mapping system could be drastically reduced, it has emerged after a meeting between IFA and Department officials.
Ireland is facing penalties over its parcel mapping system.
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The Department of Agriculture has negotiated an EU land eligibility fine for Ireland down to €3.9m for the three years between 2015 and 2017, IFA deputy president Richard Kennedy said he was told this by Department officials at a Charter of Farmers’ Rights meeting last Friday.
This would represent a significant cut to the proposed 5% penalty on area-based payments revealed by the Comptroller and Auditor General last month.
Applied to BPS, Greening and ANC schemes, this would amount to €210m.
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European Commission
The European Commission declined to comment last week because the dispute was still ongoing. The Department of Agriculture has not replied to queries from the Irish Farmers Journal on this issue for the past three weeks.
Mapping system
The Department of Agriculture is in the process of rolling out a new BPS mapping system for farmers, starting in Co Louth this year.
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The Department of Agriculture has negotiated an EU land eligibility fine for Ireland down to €3.9m for the three years between 2015 and 2017, IFA deputy president Richard Kennedy said he was told this by Department officials at a Charter of Farmers’ Rights meeting last Friday.
This would represent a significant cut to the proposed 5% penalty on area-based payments revealed by the Comptroller and Auditor General last month.
Applied to BPS, Greening and ANC schemes, this would amount to €210m.
European Commission
The European Commission declined to comment last week because the dispute was still ongoing. The Department of Agriculture has not replied to queries from the Irish Farmers Journal on this issue for the past three weeks.
Mapping system
The Department of Agriculture is in the process of rolling out a new BPS mapping system for farmers, starting in Co Louth this year.
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