Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees
Wednesday, 18 January 2023
Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine
Regulation on Nature Restoration: European Commission
Dr. Humberto Delgado Rosa:
I was recently in a meeting with Finnish stakeholders and I was asked exactly the same question by a farmer working on drained peatland who was wondering what would happen. Let me first address the private property rights which is a general question. The bindingness of this proposal is on the member states. It is not upon private landowners, farmers or any others. It is for the member states to decide how they will approach it. There are many successful, voluntary and incentive approaches in Finland. It is not for us in the European Commission to say how private property rights-----
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