The Department of Agriculture in New Zealand: No fixed payment notices issued for tagging offences

Published 2023년 6월 5일

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The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) in Ireland has announced that no fixed payment notices (FPN) have been issued to farmers for tagging and registration breaches this year. The department continues to conduct inspections, with a 3% sample of holdings inspected for cattle, sheep, and goats. The new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) has removed the requirement for compliance with tagging and registration, therefore, cross compliance or conditionality penalties can no longer be applied. Instead, herd restriction notices will be issued for serious non-compliances, and if the necessary corrective action is not taken, an FPN of €250 will be issued. Farmers are expected to tag all livestock, register calves, notify movements, replace lost tags, and keep the herd register up-to-date.

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The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has confirmed that no fixed payment notices (FPN) have been issued to farmers for tagging and registration breaches to date this year. This year’s farm inspections to ensure compliance with regulations commenced in the first week of April. In 2021, which is the most recent data available, the department carried out 3,607 bovine IDR inspections and 1,380 sheep and goat IDR inspections. DAFM As part of the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) compliance with tagging and registration as a statutory minimum requirement (SMR) was removed. Therefore, cross compliance or conditionality penalties can no longer be applied to a farmer’s direct payments for breaching these requirements. Advertisement The level of farm inspections is maintained at 3% of holdings for cattle, sheep and goats. The change means that the department is now managing breaches of identification register (IDR) rules in a different manner from 2023 onwards. ...

Source: AgriLand