The struggle for honest direct funds has begun – LV portal

The Ministry of Agriculture has resumed intensive work in order that the EU paperwork relating to the way forward for agriculture acknowledge that within the subsequent EU planning interval 2028-2034. settlement of funds is simply to be accomplished. Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, Poland, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Romania are actively advocating for the introduction of honest direct funds. Sadly, it doesn’t but have the help of the opposite member states, as a result of a rise in direct funds to the nations involved will imply a lower in different member states.

Though it’s only lately that the brand new 2023-2027 The implementation of the EU’s Widespread Agricultural Coverage (CAP) and its influence on agriculture has not but been assessed, work has already begun on the overall imaginative and prescient of the ministers of agriculture of the member states EU on the way forward for agriculture within the EU.

Already in June, the Council of Ministers of Agriculture and Fisheries of the EU intends to agree on an important ideas associated to the way forward for agriculture within the EU. One of many vital points for Latvia is to proceed the struggle for equalization of direct funds, in order that there’ll lastly be equal aggressive situations between Latvian farmers and different EU nations. As is understood, totally different funds are simply one of many causes that tremendously distort the competitors between EU farmers, placing Latvian farmers and another EU member states able unequal.

Minister of Agriculture Armands Krauze:We’ll proceed to demand that the equality of direct funds is included as one of many most important components within the widespread imaginative and prescient for the way forward for EU agriculture. The struggle can be tough, because the so-called “previous member states” don’t need to lose their privileged place.”

It’s equally vital for Latvia to make sure that satisfactory and enough funding from the EU for rural improvement is ensured sooner or later, which is essential in fixing the challenges of funding, rural financial system, entry to providers primary and rural inhabitants, and many others., particularly contemplating the dearth of CAP funding and course in direction of environmental and local weather targets.

To this point, Latvia has managed to attain that within the present planning interval 2023-2027 direct funds to Latvia have been elevated to 80% of the EU common (beforehand – 66%).