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YPAAT: 73% of the Associated Aid is directed to livestock

In more than 19 sectors of the primary sector, coupled aid has been granted in our country since 2015, with 73% of this being directed to animal production. For the new programming period 2023-2027, re-coupled aid per hectare or per animal is foreseen, the purpose of which is to address the difficulties faced by the specific sectors but also to improve competitiveness, sustainability and quality.

The criteria used to select or not sectors in the list of coupled aid are as follows:

The contribution of coupled aid to the competitiveness of the sector.

– The food and food security of the country regarding the specific sector.

Whether the coupled aid complies with Directive 2000/60 / EC (Water Directive) (Proposal for a Regulation ‘Article 109’.

– The degree of absorption of previous years.

Connected beef aid

Both during the current programming period (2014-2022) and in the new Common Agricultural Policy 2023-2027, the aim of distributing the coupled beef aid was and remains to increase domestic production to reduce its negative trade balance, where in 2019 the value of its imports amounts to 427 million euros.

The budget of the Measure amounted to 46.1 million euros per year compared to 37.7 million in 2021, recording an increase of 22.2%.

Domestic beef production gradually covers less domestic consumption, with the self-sufficiency index declining (less than 25% self-sufficiency rate), while domestic beef consumption also decreased.

According to the payment data of OPEKEPE, for the coupled aid of beef have been granted annually from 29 to 39.1 million euros and concerned 9,474 beneficiaries with rights and 81 beneficiaries with former special rights (without land).

For 2019, the average aid per holding amounted to 3,752 euros for rights holders and 29,546 euros per holding to beneficiaries with former special rights. During the same period, the total number of beneficiaries of coupled aid amounted to 195,112 beneficiaries with an average of coupled aid of EUR 903 per holding.

The average Agricultural Family Income amounts to 23,755 euros per holding (average of all holdings 12,416 euros) and the related aids (mainly beef) form 1/5 (20.7%) of the income.

Something that, as officials of the Ministry of Rural Development and Food stressed, speaking to the Athenian-Macedonian News Agency “highlights the special treatment that this sector had in relation to the other sectors regarding the measure of related aid”.

They added that “despite the significant increase mentioned above, there was no increase in domestic beef production. On the contrary, in the period 2015-2019, according to ELSTAT data, the deficit in fresh beef is increasing.”

The ineffectiveness of the implementation of the associated beef, according to the same executives “is due to the incorrect implementation of this policy measure, which only concerned the birth of animals, since eligible for the strengthening of the linked are so far, female cattle from the age of 18 months to 12 years old provided they have given birth, and the newborn calves have been recorded and marked “while” there was no link between the payment of the aid and the production of meat “.

The new Programming period 2023-2027

For the new programming period (2023-2027), the target of the affiliate is focused on increasing beef production. The vast majority of aid is therefore linked to the introduction of cattle into slaughterhouses and meat production.

According to the National Strategic Plan for the New Common Agricultural Policy submitted to the European Commission for approval, on the one hand, the former special rights (without land) are abolished, ie the coupled aid for cattle breeders (METRO 1) based on par. 4 no. 52 CAN ( EU) 1307/2013, while the granting of the related is not linked in the least with the possession or not of rights. The aid will be mainly linked to the appearance of the cattle at the slaughterhouse and its slaughter.

In addition, three different coupled aids are formed:

– Measure A: For cows that have given birth, since the intervention concerns the coupled aid to female cattle aged 18 months to 12 years, which have given birth in the year of aid (40 euros / animal).

– Measure B: For cattle (males and females) kept on the holding for at least 5 months before slaughter and led to slaughter at the age of 11-12 months (200 euros / animal).

Measure C: Concerns the coupled aid to cattle (males and females) which are slaughtered at the age of 14 to 24 months. The condition is that the animals are kept on the holding for at least 5 months before slaughter (250 euros / animal).

Finally, any breeder who owns and raises the animals born up to the ages of 11-12 months or 14-24 months can additionally receive aid A and B or aid A and C.

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Source From: Capital

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