Regulation (EU) 2017/2393

What it is

simplify the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union as regards the allocation of EU funds to the Member States and other beneficiaries. PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council. ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council. BACKGROUND: the proliferation of rules both at general and at sectoral level, their heterogeneity and their complexity due to the fact that they follow the architecture of the programme and multiple layers of controls, have all slowed down the implementation of EU funds, making it costly and prone to errors. The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development adopted the report by Albert Deß (EPP, DE) on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the financial rules applicable to the general budget of the Union and amending Regulations (EU) No 1305/2013, (EU) No 1306/2013, (EU) No 1307/2013, (EU) No 1308/2013 and (EU) No 652/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council. The committee recommended that the position of the European Parliament at first reading following the ordinary legislative procedure should amend the Commission proposal. The main amendments aim to do the following: ensure legal certainty and harmonised and non-discriminatory implementation of support to young farmers, facilitate implementation of advisory and training services by Member States´ Managing Authorities; incentivise participation in quality schemes by farmers or groups of farmers; make the sector-specific income stabilisation tool more effective by allowing Member States to define, in their rural development programmes, the income to be taken into account for the activation of the tool, in a flexible manner. The drop in income should exceed a threshold of at least 20 %; provide effective assistance to emergency operations undertaken by Member States in response to catastrophic events and adverse climatic events; increase the maximum percentage of initial public support from 65 % to 70 %, with a view to increasing the use of crop, animal and plant insurance, and of mutual funds and the income stabilisation tool; increase the threshold below which Member States may decide not to pursue recovery of undue payments from EUR 150 to EUR 250 provided that the Member State applies an equal or higher threshold for not pursuing national debts; introduce a further derogation exempting small farmers from declaring parcels on which a payment application is not made; allow Member States to include certain shrubs or trees which produce animal feed in permanent grassland where the grasses and other herbaceous forage remain predominant, in the whole or in part of their territory; clarify the classification prior to 2018 of land lying fallow as arable land , where it had been in place for five years or more, and provide certainty to the farmers concerned, and allow Member States to maintain its classification as arable land in 2018; grant Member States the opportunity to consider areas suitable for pasture where grass and other herbaceous forage do…

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