Annexes to COM(2013)617 - Decoupling progress (agricultural policy) - Main contents
Please note
This page contains a limited version of this dossier in the EU Monitor.
| dossier | COM(2013)617 - Decoupling progress (agricultural policy). |
|---|---|
| document | COM(2013)617  |
| date | September 9, 2013 |
Timing || Coupled scheme || Legal basis (for the coupled support) || Member States concerned || Gross amount available to Member States in 2009 (in EUR million)
2010 || Specific quality premium for durum wheat || Chapter 1 of Title IV of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 || EL, ES, FR, IT, AT, PT || 127.600
2010 || Arable crops area payment, including the supplementary payment for durum wheat in traditional zones || Chapter 10 of Title IV of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 || ES, FR || 1,583.561
2010 || Aid for olive groves || Chapter 10b of Title IV of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 || ES || 103.140
2010 || Hops area aid || Chapter 10d of Title IV of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 || FR, AT, SI (DE[6]) || 0.274
2012 at the latest || Protein crop premium || Section 3 of Chapter 1 of Title IV of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 || All EU-15 || 77.796
2012 at the latest || Crop specific payment for rice || Section 1 of Chapter 1 of Title IV of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 || EL, ES, FR[7], IT, PT || 179.910
2012 at the latest || Area payment for nuts || Section 4 of Chapter 1 of Title IV of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 || BE, DE, EL, ES, FR, IT, LU, NL, AT, PT, SI, UK || 96.622
2012 at the latest || Production aid for starch potato growers || Section 2 of Chapter 1 of Title IV of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 || DK, DE, ES, FR, NL, AT, FI, SE || 116.867
2012 at the latest || Seed aid || Section 5 of Chapter 1 of Title IV of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 || BE, EL, ES, FR, IT, NL, PT, FI || 30.923
2012 at the latest || Beef and veal payments, except the suckler cow premium || Article 53 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 || BE, DK, ES, FR, NL, AT, PT, FI, SE, SI || 471.883
2012 || Transitional soft fruit payment || Section 9 of Chapter 1 of Title IV of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 || BG, HU, LV, LT, PL || 12.213
TOTAL || 2,800.789
Also, as a result of the Health Check, it was decided to abolish the coupled aid for energy crops as from claim year 2010. The total gross amount available for granting that payment in 2009 was EUR 90 million.
Finally, it must be mentioned that Annex XI of Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 also provided, as from 2012, for the integration in the SPS/SAPS of EUR 187 million following the abolishment of three market measures: the aid for processing dried fodder[8], the aid for processing flax and hemp grown for fibre[9] and the potato starch premium[10].
4.2. Optional integration of coupled support in the SPS/SAPS following the Health Check
Article 51(1) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 allows Member States having decided in accordance with Article 64(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 to grant payments in the sheepmeat and goatmeat sector and/or in the form of suckler cow premia to continue granting these payments. They may also decide to set the part of the component of their national ceilings to be used to grant these payments at a lower level than that decided in accordance with Article 64(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 or to stop granting them. On this basis, the following decisions were taken by the Member States concerned:
Timing || Coupled scheme || Legal basis (for the coupled support) || Member States concerned || Decision taken || Gross amount available to Member States in 2009 for granting the coupled support (in EUR million)
2010 || Sheepmeat and goatmeat payments || Article 52 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 || ES || Full decoupling || 239.294
2010 || Sheepmeat payments || Article 52 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 || FR || Full decoupling || 86.027
2010 || Suckler cow premium || Article 53 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 || FR || 25% decoupling + deduction of EUR 25.19 million for financing the specific support under Article 68[11] || 208.794
2010 || Sheepmeat and goatmeat payments || Article 52 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 || SI || Full decoupling || 0.697
2012 || Sheepmeat and goatmeat payments || Article 52 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 || DK || Full decoupling || 0.855
TOTAL || 535.667
On the basis of the same Article, Member State s that had excluded all or part of the fruit and vegetable payments from the single payment scheme pursuant to Article 68b of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, could decide:
(1) either to keep granting the payments until their expiration[12] as provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003,
(2) or, by 1 August 2009, to integrate those payments in the SPS,
(3) or, by 1 August 2009, to grant them at a lower level than that decided in accordance with Article 68b of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003.
In accordance with Article 128 of Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, similar possibilities were also available for Member States applying the SAPS.
As a result of both the existing decoupling plan already decided in the framework of the reform of the fruits and vegetables' sector and the decisions taken following the Health Check, the following amounts that were still available for granting coupled support in 2009 have been integrated in the SPS/SAPS:
Timing || Coupled scheme || Legal basis (for the coupled support) || Member States concerned || Gross amount available to Member States in 2009 that was decoupled (in EUR million)
2011 || Support for the production of tomatoes || Article 54 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 || EL, ES, IT || 130.821
2012 || Support for the production of tomatoes || Article 54 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 || FR, PT || 20.684
2010 || Support for the production of tomatoes || Article 128 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 || SK || 0.174
2012 || Support for the production of tomatoes || Article 128 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 || SK, RO || 1.204
2010 || Support for the production of other F&V || Article 54 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 || EL, ES || 111.653
2011 || Support for the production of other F&V || Article 54 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 || FR, IT || 18.977
2011 || Support for the production of other F&V || Article 128 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 || CY || 1.119
TOTAL || 284.632
5. Remaining coupling possibilities
As indicated above, the Member States that had decided after the 2003 reform to grant payments in the sheepmeat and goatmeat sector and/or in the form of suckler cow premia, and/or that had excluded all or part of the fruit and vegetable payments from the SPS or the SAPS, had the opportunity to continue granting such payments at the same or a lower level. As a result, in 2012, the following amounts were still available for granting direct payments in those sectors:
Coupled scheme || Legal basis (for the coupled support) || Member States concerned || Gross amount available to Member States in 2012 for granting the coupled support (in EUR million)
Sheepmeat and goatmeat payments || Article 52 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 || PT, FI || 29.876
Suckler cow premium || Article 53 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 || BE, ES, FR, AT, PT || 1,068.563
Support for the production of other F&V || Article 54 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 || FR, IT || 33.875
Support for the production of other F&V || Article 128 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 || CY || 3.359
TOTAL || 1,135.673
Also, an important result of the Health Check was the possibility given to Member States under Article 68 of the Council Regulation to use part of their Annex VIII envelope to grant specific support to farmers, also in the form of coupled payments. This support came also in replacement – after a transition period if the Member States whished so – of the former possibility given to Member States under Article 69 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 to use up to 10% of the component of their national ceilings corresponding to each sector being included in direct payments to grant coupled payment for specific types of farming and quality production in the sector concerned. In 2012, the amount Member States had made available from their Annexes VIII in order to grant coupled aids under the specific support, and more in particular under Article 68(1)(a)(i) to (iv), (b), and (e) of Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, was EUR 1,202.257 million while the amount that was allocated to grant coupled aid under the former Article 69 in 2009 was EUR 473.534 million.
In 2012, in view of the provisions of the Treaty of Accession of the concerned Member States (ES, EL, PT[13]), EUR 269 million were still available to grant the crop specific payment for cotton. Also, ES still had EUR 24 million to grant the 5-years aid for sugar beet and cane producers (2013 being the last of the 5 years).
In summary, in claim year 2012, as a result of the Health Check and the previous sectoral reforms, the share of the total gross amount (i.e. before modulation) of direct payments[14] that was available for granting decoupled payments in EU-27 was 94%, with Member States ranging from 77% to 100%.
[1] See APP Brief No 1: The CAP in perspective: from market intervention to policy innovation, http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/publi/app-briefs/01_en.pdf.
[2] See CAP Health Check – Impact assessment Note No 3 on partially coupled support, http://ec.europa.eu/agriculture/healthcheck/ia_annex/c3_en.pdf.
[3] Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 (O.J. L30, 31.01.2009).
[4] COD 16049/08 of 20 November 2008 and COD 5263/09 ADD 1 of 9 January 2009
[5] Excluding direct payments for POSEI and Aegean Islands.
[6] The amount DE had available for granting the coupled aid for hops until 2009 was not decoupled but transferred to a specific envelope DE could use to support the sector under the single CMO.
[7] The amount available for granting the coupled aid for rice production in French Guyana was integrated in the envelope available for granting aid for POSEI.
[8] Provided for in Subsection I of Section I of Chapter 4 of Title I of Part II of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007.
[9] Provided for in Subsection II of Section I of Chapter 4 of Title I of Part II of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007.
[10] Provided for in Article 95a of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007.
[11] In accordance with Article 69(6)(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, Member States may raise the funds needed to cover the specific support provided in Article 68(1)(a), (b), (c) and (d) by making a linear reduction in the direct payments referred to in Article 53.
[12] Claim year 2011 is the last possible year for using up to 50% of the component of the national ceilings corresponding to support for the production of tomatoes; claim year 2012 is the last possible year for using up to 75% of the component of the national ceilings corresponding to support for the production of fresh figs, fresh citrus fruits, table grapes, pears, peaches and nectarines, and ‘d'Ente’ plums.
[13] The amount available for BG is included in the SAPS envelope.
[14] Excluding direct payments for POSEI and Aegean Islands.