Consultation outcome

Common Agricultural Policy reform: implementation in England

From:
Department for Environment, Food & Rural Affairs
Published
31 October 2013
Last updated
17 June 2014 — See all updates
This was published under the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
This consultation has concluded

Download the full outcome

Summary of responses and government response

PDF, 634KB, 102 pages

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Summary of responses and government response on remaining issues: February 2014

PDF, 204KB, 32 pages

Government decision on the moorland rate: April 2014

PDF, 63.4KB, 4 pages

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Government decisions on greening: June 2014

PDF, 62.3KB

Evidence summary on the implementation of changes to cross compliance in England: June 2014

PDF, 102KB

Government decisions on cross compliance

PDF, 47.9KB, 5 pages

Detail of outcome

We received 4,928 responses to this consultation.

The first summary of responses was published on 19 December 2013. An additional summary of responses and government response for the remaining issues was published on 26 February 2014.

On 25 April 2014 the government decision on the moorland rate was announced.

On 10 June 2014 the government decision on greening was announced. The evidence summary on the implementation of changes to cross compliance in England was also published.

Original consultation

Summary

We are seeking views on implementation of CAP reform in England for 2015 to 2020.

This consultation was held on another website.

This consultation ran from
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Consultation description

This consultation is seeking views on how we should implement the next round of the Common Agriculture Policy (CAP) in England for 2015 to 2020. CAP is the EU’s programme to support farming, the environment and rural development across Europe.

In particular, we are seeking views on issues relating to:

  • direct payments to farmers
  • greening requirements of direct payments
  • what transfer in England is made between the budget for direct payments to the budget for Rural Development
  • the focus of the Rural Development Programme

This consultation will be of interest to farmers, land managers, rural businesses and those working in the rural economy or with a role in environment management.

Workshops

In addition to the consultation, we will be hosting workshops around the country in November. They will last approximately two and half hours and will be facilitated by Defra policy officials who will provide an update on CAP implementation and then seek input on a number of key questions included within the consultation. The output from the workshops will feed in to the CAP consultation.

More information and how to register your interest to attend a workshop.

Published 31 October 2013
Last updated 17 June 2014 + show all updates

  1. Replaced the evidence summary on the implementation of changes to cross compliance in England document - corrected typo on page 11.

  2. Added document: 'Government decisions on cross compliance'

  3. Added decision paper on greening and evidence summary for cross compliance measures.

  4. Added the 'Government decision on the moorland rate' document.

  5. Summary of responses and government response on remaining issues published.

  6. Summary of response and government response document added.

  7. First published.

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