Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Tuesday, 27 November 2018

Joint Oireachtas Committee on Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Areas of Natural Constraint: Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

3:30 pm

Mr. Thomas Harty:

The Court of Auditors view of the last scheme fed into the discussions throughout Europe on the need to move to biophysical. That percentage was put in as part of the 2013 discussions on the regulations. The court would have said that it had to move to biophysical and the exact biophysical and thresholds were part of the negotiations that formed the Common Agricultural Policy, CAP, the last time, and now the 60% level is in the regulations.