Brendan Smith (Cavan-Monaghan, Fianna Fail)
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325. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine when he will announce details of force majeure provisions in respect of the 2016 area aid scheme and the single payment scheme; and if he will make a statement on the matter. [6036/16]

Simon Coveney (Cork South Central, Fine Gael)
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Details in relation to force majeure for the 2016 Basic Payment Scheme are set out in the Terms and Conditions document. This document is available on my Department’s website.

Force Majeure is defined in Article 2.2. of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 which states:

“For the purposes of the financing, management and monitoring of the CAP, "force majeure" and "exceptional circumstances" may, in particular, be recognised in the following cases:

(a) the death of the beneficiary;

(b) long-term professional incapacity of beneficiary;

(c) a severe natural disaster gravely affecting the holding;

(d) the accidental destruction of livestock buildings on the holding;

(e) an epizootic or a plant disease affecting part or all of the beneficiary's livestock or crops respectively;

(f) expropriation of all or a large part of the holding if that expropriation could not have been anticipated on the day of lodging the application.”

My Department deals with claims of Force Majeure on a case by a case basis.