Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 6 October 2021
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
EU Regulation on Veterinary Medicinal Products (Resumed): Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Dr. Paul Corkery:
They have. They have a different system from here and they have decoupling. As I said, however, decoupling is not the only factor. The real reason we cannot use it here is that the legal opinion is that it would amount to state aid. One cannot do it unless one has a justification on veterinary grounds and because of those figures I spoke about, that justification just is not there.
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