ZSA letter on the results of the CAP trilogue agreement

Referring to the email received on July 2 from the Ministry of Agriculture regarding the results of the CAP trialogue agreement, we present the opinion of the association "Farmers' Council" on the questions asked:

1) Which of the following direct payment instruments can achieve the requirement to redistribute funding to small and medium-sized farmers:

• support for small farmers (500-1050 euros per farm). We believe that the payment should be no more than 500 euros per farm.
• redistributive payment (support for the first hectares of a farm). We believe that the payment should be no less than for the first 150ha, it should be provided for all farms and the rate should be no higher than 10 euros/ha.
• ISIP support ceiling (100% reduction of ISIP amounts above 100,000 euros, with the reduction increasing the non-taxable amount by the amount of labor costs (voluntary deduction of salaries)). We support this proposal.
• reduction of direct payments (up to 85%, a large reduction in ISIP amounts above 60,000 euros, with the reduction increasing the non-taxable amount by the amount of labor costs). We do not agree with the proportional reduction of TM and ISIP until we have reached the average EU level of direct payments.

2) young farmers should be allocated funding equal to 31% of the direct payments funding, or 53.8 million euros. Direct payments have so far been planned for 11.8 million euros, while rural development measures have been planned for 30.6 million euros. An additional 11 million euros are expected for young farmers.

• Should additional funding of 11 million euros be provided for rural development measures for young farmers and should the necessary funding of 11 million euros be reallocated from direct payments to rural development?
• We do not support the redistribution of funding from the Ministry of Education to the RDP, we believe that the necessary funding of 11 million should be proportionally redirected from all planned RDP programs.