Agriculture Commissioner Ciolos provides the farmers with its reform proposals on agricultural policy with difficult problems. In focus: The alignment of the premiums.
HANS GMEINER Salzburg (SN). Facilitates the local agrarians were after the first analysis of the proposals on EU agricultural reform. Dynamite there are still enough. The focus is on eliminating differences in the premium rights of the farmers, the future shape of agricultural environmental programs and the establishment of other areas, for which there is special support - not to mention the fact that is completely open from the current perspective, how much money is in the future for the EU agricultural policy and individual measures are.
are at the single payment equal to two or changes to the house. First, the agriculture commissioner wants the premiums converge across the EU. This Austrian farmers have relatively good cards, because their average premiums per hectare in total within the EU only be in the midfield. In other ways, but also in Austria itself to an approximation. And that is tricky. The Distribution of the so-called single payment that is paid for by Brussels, takes place in Austria to the historical model and is based more on the relations of production at the beginning of the decade. This conflict inequalities. These range from an average of 137 euros per hectare in the district of St. Johann im Pongau up to 325 € per hectare in agricultural areas, or even 366 in the Schwaz district of Tyrol, with its intensive milk production.
De facto, however, the differences are not so serious. Through the funds, reaping the local farmers from voluntary participation in environmental programs, and by the mountain farmers, the subsidies for individual farmers are highly aligned, It remains in hectares as the benchmark. Examples in the Green Report shows that the public funds, the farmers get per hectare in total, in all operating sectors, company sizes and production areas in the range 500-700 € per hectare are. Only the organic farmers are significantly higher.
are however grave the political battles long since started. The ÖVP-farmers' representatives are opposed to a uniform premium for all of Austria and will possibly be reconciled. The Social Democratic Party insists on such a massive redistribution and will insert the number of workers on a farm as a criterion for the award.
The redesign will Winners and losers. The trend is foreseeable that the money will flow toward more grassland areas. Losses have to be expected, especially farmers, or farmers who benefited from the historical model especially, such as bull farmer.
is against that background that the future development of purely Austrian environmental programs, a special place. What Ciolos presented, the local farmers makes skeptical. Measures such as compliance with certain rotations or planting of the fields in winter, which could fatten up the farmers so far their incomes will in future be part of the Brussels farm payment. How and by what measures still in the future environmental funds for Austrian farmers can be secured, is still unclear.
It is also unclear what is valid in future as a mining area or disadvantaged area. Would that be could wish for the Agricultural Commissioner, should above all, many farmers in the transitional zones are afraid for their additional funding. The local agrarians calm but for now: "That's not eaten."
Salzburger Nachrichten - Economy 01/12/2010
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