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21/09/2011 10:48:41
NFU discusses CAP reforms
The debate about how the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) will look post 2014 dominated the recent meeting of NFU Cymru council as it discussed the leaked package of proposals for the reform of the CAP from Brussels ahead of the formal proposals that are due to be published on 12 October 2012.
NFU Cymru Council members heard from Maeve Whyte, Director of the NFU office in Brussels, that although the leaked documents must be treated with a certain amount of caution, the chances are they are a good indication of what the formal proposals will look like next month. She did however, stress, that what we are seeing now may look a lot different to the final CAP settlement when it comes into place in January 2014.
Ed Bailey, NFU Cymru President, said, "We have said from the outset of the CAP Reform discussions that we want a policy that is simple and market focused but when looking at what is being proposed, I fear that we now have something that looks extremely complicated, we appear to be moving backwards to leave a situation where the support system, rather than the market, will dictate farmers’ decisions."
Rory O’Sullivan, Director of the Rural Affairs department gave the Welsh Government’s initial reaction to the leaked proposals on future CAP reform. Mr O’Sullivan said, "The key issue is the move to full area based payments by 2019. This could see a significant redistribution in the current pattern of Single Payment Scheme receipts in Wales in a relatively short period of time.
"The leaked proposals raise also a range of other issues where it be important to fully understand the details. That detail, and pursing matters with the European Commission, would depend on the content of the draft legislation that is expected to be published in the next few weeks."
Ed Bailey concluded, "We had hoped that the European Commission would give us a clear indication of how farming should look in the future via the new Common Agricultural Policy but these draft leaked proposals seem confused and complicated with no clear direction. We are struggling to see how they will help farmers face up to the big challenges of today let alone feeding a growing population sustainably in the future."
NFU Cymru Council members heard from Maeve Whyte, Director of the NFU office in Brussels, that although the leaked documents must be treated with a certain amount of caution, the chances are they are a good indication of what the formal proposals will look like next month. She did however, stress, that what we are seeing now may look a lot different to the final CAP settlement when it comes into place in January 2014.
Ed Bailey, NFU Cymru President, said, "We have said from the outset of the CAP Reform discussions that we want a policy that is simple and market focused but when looking at what is being proposed, I fear that we now have something that looks extremely complicated, we appear to be moving backwards to leave a situation where the support system, rather than the market, will dictate farmers’ decisions."
Rory O’Sullivan, Director of the Rural Affairs department gave the Welsh Government’s initial reaction to the leaked proposals on future CAP reform. Mr O’Sullivan said, "The key issue is the move to full area based payments by 2019. This could see a significant redistribution in the current pattern of Single Payment Scheme receipts in Wales in a relatively short period of time.
"The leaked proposals raise also a range of other issues where it be important to fully understand the details. That detail, and pursing matters with the European Commission, would depend on the content of the draft legislation that is expected to be published in the next few weeks."
Ed Bailey concluded, "We had hoped that the European Commission would give us a clear indication of how farming should look in the future via the new Common Agricultural Policy but these draft leaked proposals seem confused and complicated with no clear direction. We are struggling to see how they will help farmers face up to the big challenges of today let alone feeding a growing population sustainably in the future."
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