Dáil Éireann Debate, Thursday - 1 February 2018
244. Deputy Charlie McConalogue asked the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine to outline his views on having a yellow card approach for cross-compliance inspections as pertains with land eligibility checks. [5161/18]
Amharc ar fhreagraThe EU regulations governing the Cross Compliance regime provides that where a breach of any of the requirements is deemed to be minor and remedial action is taken within a specified period, no monetary sanction will apply.
The "Yellow Card" provision in relation to land eligibility checks applies to those cases where a determined over-declaration in area is greater than 3% or 2 hectares, but does not exceed 10%. For such cases the penalty will be further reduced by 50%, subject to specific additional criteria.
My Department applies both of these provisions.
