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Additional Indicators Number of enterprises with marketing/processing activities: 190 Number of enterprises with development activities: 10 Number of enterprises with new products: 120 Number of enterprises with new techniques: 20 Number of enterprises with expansion of production: 60 5.2 Axis 2: Improving the environment and the countryside Summary of actions Under this Axis, Measures are designed to protect and enhance natural resources and landscapes in rural areas. In so doing they will contribute to the EU priority areas of:
The Measures will contribute to the implementation of the Natura 2000 network, to the Gotebörg commitment to reverse biodiversity decline by 2010, to the objectives laid down in Directive 2000/60/EC establishing a framework for Community action in the field of water policy and to the Kyoto Protocol targets for climate change mitigation. The Measures chosen are designed to meet the Axis 2 objective through:
The following table summarises the baseline situation and the targets for Axis 2.
Axis 2 Measures Payments to Farmers in Areas with Handicaps, other than Mountain Areas (Less Favoured Areas Compensatory Allowances Scheme)Legal basisArticle 36(a)(ii) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005Measure Code: 212 Rationale for interventionIn order to avoid land abandonment, compensatory allowances seek to compensate those farming in agriculturally disadvantaged areas. The Compensatory Allowances Scheme encourages sustainable use of agricultural land in less favoured areas and takes account of environmental protection requirements. The scheme ensures continued agricultural land use, thereby contributing to maintaining the countryside. Objective of the measureFarmers in less favoured areas face significant handicaps deriving from factors such as remoteness, difficult topography and poor soil conditions. They tend to have lower farm productivity and higher unit production costs than farmers in other areas. Without financial support, these lower returns from farming would pose a significant threat to the future viability of these farming communities. Support under the scheme, therefore, will contribute to:
Type of support
Demarcation with Pillar I Article 68 Grassland Sheep Scheme Beneficiaries under Pillar I Article 68 Grassland Sheep Scheme may receive aid under this measure. The operations funded under each scheme are totally separate and there is no element of overcompensation. This is illustrated by the difference between the two schemes and the purpose of the support under each scheme. The activities and types of enterprises proposed to be supported under the different schemes are clearly distinguishable. The operations funded under Pillar 1 involve breeding ewes only, while those falling under Pillar 2 involve mainly non-breeding sheep and other livestock. In the case of the Grassland Sheep Scheme the enterprise is permanent, labour intensive and with relatively high fixed costs. The maintenance of other sheep under the Less Favoured Area scheme in many instances is seasonal, with sheep being purchased during the grass-growing season for the purposes of grazing the grass. The sheep are generally sold in October/November. There is a minimum stocking density requirement of 0.15 livestock units per hectare under the LFA scheme but the animals can be cattle, sheep (either ewes or other sheep), goats and other farm animals. The purposes of the Less Favoured Areas Scheme are the continued use of agricultural land, the maintenance of the countryside and the promotion of sustainable farming systems. Payment reflects the severity of farming handicap, environmental problems, type of production and economic structure of the holding. By contrast the purpose of the payment under the Grassland Sheep Scheme is to maintain the national sheep breeding flock which has declined by 41% since 2000. The aid paid under the Grassland Sheep Scheme is paid exclusively to sheep breeding flock owners and is not paid to other sheep flock owners. The sole objective here is to maintain the current level of sheep production in Ireland by concentrating aid on the breeding flocks. Sheep enterprises are one of the less profitable farming enterprises, particularly in hill areas. The level of aid under both schemes is modest and even combined together are below the maximum level of €200 per hectare permissible under the LFA scheme. In addition there is a cap on the eligible hectarage under both schemes. Level of supportAid will continue to be differentiated to reflect the differing levels of severity of permanent handicap experienced within the LFAs. LFA land is sub-divided into three land classification categories as follows:
Levels of payment will, as a rule, be based on eligible forage area declared in the Department of Agriculture and Food’s Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS). Payment rates will be as follows: More severely handicapped (lowland) €95.99 per hectare up to 30 hectares Less severely handicapped (lowland) €82.27 per hectare up to 30 hectares Directory: media -> migration media -> The milk carton kids media -> Events Date and Location media -> The Gilded Age: The First Generation of Historians by H. Wayne Morgan University of Oklahoma, April 18, 1997 media -> Analysis of Law in the United Kingdom pertaining to Cross-Border Disaster Relief Prepared by: For the 30 June 2010 Foreword media -> Cuba fieldcourse 2010 migration -> Submissions received from the public consultation on a proposal to increase the allocation to the Celtic Sea Herring Sentinel Fishery for 2016 Proposal migration -> Background Paper Food, Beverages, Nutrition & pcf migration -> Review of Replacement Capacity Requirements under Sea-fishing Boat Licensing Policy migration -> Of the burren farming for conservation programme migration -> Of the burren farming for conservation programme Download 5.36 Mb. Share with your friends:
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