Dr. Ronan O'Flaherty:

On the last point, we have identified organics and organic status as guaranteeing the farmer access to tier 1 of GLAS. As with every other priority or environmental asset one might have, such as a bird action or a Natura action, if that action gets one in ahead of anybody else there is a requirement to keep it for the duration of the contract. Similarly, if one has used organics to get into tier 1 of the system, one is expected to honour that over the period, to be fair to the farmers who were not allowed in.