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CAP conference – policy background presentation
17 April 2013
Contents
• Why have payment regions?• What constitutes a payment region?• Our aim for today• Some key points to note• How to interpret the results• What will happen next?• Conclusions
Why have payment regions?
• Move to area-based payments• Pack Inquiry recommended against single area
rate for Scotland• Having payment regions allows for different
area-based rates per region• Also affects entitlement transferability
What constitutes a payment region?
• Objective and justifiable criteria• Could be:
– Geographic (Eg Highlands and Islands)– Administrative (Eg local authority)– Land quality (Eg LFA)
Examples of payment regions
• Germany – Laender (federal administrative regions)
• England – SDA moorland, other SDA and non-SDA (geographic/land quality)
• Sweden – historic land use and productivity (proxy for land quality)
Our aim for today
• Detailed modelling carried out for Pack Inquiry• Need to update in light of emerging detail of
new CAP• Vast range of possible scenarios• We want your help to identify which ones to
shortlist for more detailed modelling and subsequent consultation
• Opportunity to send in comments in next month or so
Some key points to note -1
• This modelling is designed to hold everything unchanged except the payment regions
• Trade-off between realism vs ability to identify effects
• Today’s results do not predict what payments would actually be under the new CAP (that will come later)
• They do allow us to isolate the impact of the payment regions
Some key points to note - 2
• These results represent the end-point: full convergence to a single rate per hectare for each payment region
• In other words these results show the end of any transitional period
• EU rules might provide for stopping short of full convergence – but that would mean retaining a historic-based element
Some key points to note - 3
• Not just how to divide the country into payment regions – also how much of the budget to allocate to each payment region
• Budget scenarios:– ‘Status quo’– Skewed towards better land or poorer land– ‘Olympic podium’
• NB even ‘status quo’ averages payments over different quality land
How to interpret the one-page summaries
What will happen next?
• Presentations this morning• Discussion sessions and feedback this afternoon• Possible tentative conclusions at the end of today• Opportunity to reflect, consult and email
comments in next month• Subsequent modelling adding in greening,
voluntary coupled support etc, for consultation
Conclusions
• Task is to narrow down the options• Results are designed to isolate the effect of
payment regions, not predict actual payments• Consider both the design of the payment
regions and the budget allocations for each• Thank you in advance for your comments, today
and in the next month• Mailbox address:
