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Tuesday, 20. President of the European Union (EU), the Agriculture and Fisheries Council meeting, which discussed the question of the EU Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after 2013. , the Minister of Agriculture of Latvia Laimdota Straujuma expressed the view that the European call of duty elite Commission (EC) proposed CAP reform proposals are a number of areas that should be greatly simplified.
Agriculture Minister stressed that the system call of duty elite of direct call of duty elite payments after 2013. year should be simple and accessible to farmers. call of duty elite Do not allow direct payment splitting into several components, which leads to lack of transparency and complexity. In addition, Latvia believes that rural development policy after 2013. The need for a significant simplification call of duty elite of EU funding available to farmers to achieve the simplest way to avoid excessive bureaucracy.
"We believe that the system of direct payments, which are currently offered by the European Commission, will be the farmers as beneficiaries of opaque and difficult to understand, which can increase the number of errors, supports ideas and, consequently, lead to a reduction in aid. Such a system would be difficult to manage

and the added costs of the existing system to transform and adapt to new requirements. Would increase administrative checks and controls on the number of pieces, which in turn creates additional administrative burden on farmers.'s call of duty elite Common Agricultural

Policy has become easier not only for the European Commission and the European Union Member States, call of duty elite "said Minister of Agriculture Laimdota Straujuma.
Latvia believes that the so-called call of duty elite "green" or environmental components introduction of direct payments and greatly complicate the situation. These components are basically the administrative burden would be borne by the production of the farmers who have to get the payment, it will be forced to give up farming of arable land to the production site to comply with all environmental protection measures. Thus, part of the revenue will be lost diezvai fully compensate the component allocation, especially in countries where the payment per hectare is much lower than the EU average.

In addition to the "green" component implementation will increase the administrative burden for national authorities will have to take additional on-site inspections to verify call of duty elite that, and how these requirements. Latvia takes part in the discussion and cooperation with other EU member states, including Germany, France, call of duty elite Estonia, Lithuania and other specific proposals call of duty elite for necessary changes in the rules.