Written answers

Thursday, 1 February 2018

Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine

Agriculture Schemes

Photo of Charlie McConalogueCharlie McConalogue (Donegal, Fianna Fail)
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244. To ask the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline his views on having a yellow card approach for cross-compliance inspections as pertains with land eligibility checks. [5161/18]

Photo of Michael CreedMichael Creed (Cork North West, Fine Gael)
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The EU regulations governing the Cross Compliance regime provides that where a breach of any of the requirements is deemed to be minor and remedial action is taken within a specified period, no monetary sanction will apply.

The "Yellow Card" provision in relation to land eligibility checks applies to those cases where a determined over-declaration in area is greater than 3% or 2 hectares, but does not exceed 10%. For such cases the penalty will be further reduced by 50%, subject to specific additional criteria.

My Department applies both of these provisions.

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