Paul Kehoe (Wexford, Fine Gael)
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Question 1003: To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if a person can transfer entitlements on the release of land when they are going to apply for the REP scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [12050/09]

Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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Single Payment entitlements are not attached to land and do not transfer automatically with land. Entitlements are the property of the farmer who established them during the reference period of 2000-2002 or, if transferred by way of permanent transfer since then, the property of the person to whom they were transferred.

Application to transfer entitlements must be completed where sale, gift or inheritance of entitlements is involved, or where the registration details of the holding are changed as a result of Partnership, Division of a Holding, Change of Legal Entity or the Addition or Removal of a person on a herd-number.

Farmers who wish to transfer entitlements for 2009 must submit a Transfer of Entitlement (SPS/TE 2009) to the Department prior to the closing date for receipt of such applications on the 15 May 2009. Entitlements may be transferred with or without land; however, entitlements transferred by lease or rental agreement must be accompanied by an equal or greater number of net hectares of land. The details of such land parcels must be declared on the Transfer of Entitlements Application Form.