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Il Vaffa di Grillo a Conte, China plays with toys, the new CAP, Ita does not take off

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Il Vaffa di Grillo a Conte, China plays with toys, the new CAP, Ita does not take off

Not only 5 Stars, China, toys, Pac, Covid, Ita. Facts, names, numbers, curiosities and controversies. Bits of press review in the tweets of Michele Arnese, director of Start

THE VACUUM OF GRILLO A CONTE

ITA DOES NOT TAKE OFF

PAC OR PACKAGE?

TAXES, SHIFT

CHINA PUTS CHRISTMAS AT RISK …

COVID EFFECT

5 STAR SAGA

QUISQUILIE & PINZILLACCHERE

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EXTRACT FROM AN ARTICLE FROM THE SUN 24 HOURS ABOUT THE NEW CAP:

More tasks with fewer resources. This could be the brutal summary to be drawn regarding the complex reform of the Common Agricultural Policy 2023-2027, on which the formal green light of the European ministers arrived yesterday after the political agreement with the European Parliament last Friday. A reform defined by the Portuguese Minister of Agriculture, Maria do Céu Antunes "the greatest CAP reform since the 1990s". Now there remains only the definitive, not obvious but highly probable, passage to the European Parliament (which has contributed, it must be said, to significantly improve the reform) to put an end to a negotiation that lasted three years and which seriously risked being wrecked. In fact, the original proposal dates back to the Juncker Commission, and two postponements and a grueling negotiation on the most controversial points were necessary to find an agreement.

Starting with the disputed environmental constraints on which the last institutional tug-of-war took place. Called to make a decisive contribution to the implementation of the new Green Deal, European agriculture will in fact have to comply with a series of new rules, which translate into environmentally friendly agricultural practices to which a quarter of European aid will be bound. In the end it was decided for a share of 25%, a compromise between the 30 requested by the European Parliament and the 20 proposed by the Council. Green practices will be chosen from a menu set at EU level and which individual member states will then have to decline in national strategic plans, the heart and real challenge of the reform, to ensure governance of the 350 billion allocated to the sector by the EU budget. After years of cuts, the agricultural budget still represents about 30% of the total EU budget, it was 40% in the past programming (2014-20). It was well over 50% in the 1990s.

For Italy, the agreement is worth about 34 billion until 2027, which can reach almost 50 billion considering the national co-financing of funds for rural development. In fact, underlines the president of Confagricoltura, Massimiliano Giansanti, a cut of 6.2 billion compared to past programming. For Italy, therefore, a cut of 15% in real terms, heavier than the average cut that in the EU was 10%.

In the implementation of the ecosystems, for the first two years of the new system – that is to say in 2023 and 2024 – the percentage may drop by five points (from the expected 25%), but strict criteria have been set for its use at national level sums not requested by farmers. 15% of the overall ceiling can be allocated to support single productions with “coupled” payments, ie linked to the quantities actually produced.

Furthermore, the Member States will have to launch a redistributive payment in favor of smaller companies, for an amount equal to at least 10% of the total allocation for direct aid. The redistribution objective can be achieved, alternatively, by resorting to the ceiling (or by setting a maximum ceiling on the aid that can be received by a single company) and degressivity, or a cut on larger payments (from 85 thousand to 100 thousand euros).

On the other hand, the request of the European Parliament that asked for a single aid for all companies at national level by 2026 did not pass. The differences between the amounts currently disbursed (the so-called "internal convergence") will be progressively reduced by 85 percent . This is a measure which, in Italy, risks heavily penalizing rice cultivation and animal husbandry.

Another important change concerns the inclusion of a "third pillar" (alongside direct aid and rural development) dedicated to the social conditionality of the CAP with constraints on financing for companies. Social conditionality will enter into force in 2025, but Member States have the option to bring the start up by two years. In essence, companies that do not respect contracts and some European labor regulations will be fined.

This is a machine translation from Italian language of a post published on Start Magazine at the URL https://www.startmag.it/mondo/saga-5-stelle-la-cina-si-balocca-con-i-giocattoli-la-nuova-pac-ita-non-decolla/ on Tue, 29 Jun 2021 08:13:38 +0000.