CAP concerns in all four UK nations

摘要

This year is the one every agricultural minister, industry group and farmer in Europe has been looking to for some time - the year when the reformed Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) is implemented.This will be a year of considerable upheaval, as we move from the Single Payment Scheme to the Basic Payment Scheme incorporating the new EU greening requirements. Wales, Scotland Northern Ireland will also start the move from historic to area payments, and while England thought it could look on smugly, having completed its own painful transition under the previous CAP, it is instead facing considerable problems with a new online payment system.