{"id":68605,"date":"2016-03-15T13:58:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-15T13:58:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=93f87cd225099b92453141a111cc8aef"},"modified":"2016-03-15T13:58:46","modified_gmt":"2016-03-15T13:58:46","slug":"press-release-support-for-streamlining-cap-audits-secured","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=68605","title":{"rendered":"Press release: Support for streamlining CAP audits secured"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>Environment Secretary Elizabeth Truss gained significant support across <abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr> member states for progress in streamlining <abbr title=\"Common Agricultural Policy\">CAP<\/abbr> audits at Agriculture talks yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at Agriculture and Fisheries Council in Brussels, Ms Truss secured backing from 16 other countries for proposals to improve the current audit system which would benefit UK farmers by reducing the risk of penalties. Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan committed to carefully considering the UK proposals after the groundswell of support around the council table.<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Truss also gained support for measures that would help farmers boost productivity including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>improving the transparency of supply chains so that farmers can get earlier signals on price and demand to adapt their business models and target emerging opportunities &#8211; the Commission agreed to extend the successful <abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr> Milk Market Observatory to beef and pigmeat which will give the industry access to the latest market data to help manage their business<\/li>\n<li>assisting farmers with their overheads by reducing the cost of fertilisers. Agriculture Commissioner Phil Hogan agreed to look into this proposal<\/li>\n<li>helping farmers access finance to invest in their businesses and boost their productivity and competiveness &#8211; the Commission agreed to prioritise engagement with the European Investment Bank to develop tools that could be made available to farmers<\/li>\n<li>an increased drive to open up new foreign export markets for British agriculture. The Commission committed to intensifying efforts to secure new market access<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Elizabeth Truss said:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>We have made 2016 the year of Great British Food and I want to capitalise on the growing interest in the provenance of high quality British produce. For example, for our dairy industry this means increasing manufacturing and processing investment in high-return products such as ice-cream, cheese and yoghurt. I know there are many dairy businesses in the UK that have great enthusiasm for adding value to the milk they produce.<\/p>\n<p>The package put forward by the <abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr> Commission will help British farmers become more productive and competitive. The widespread support within the council for action to help farmers with the audit system and fertilisers also demonstrated the will within the <abbr title=\"European Union\">EU<\/abbr> to back agriculture and I look forward to working closely with Commissioner Hogan on these ideas.<\/p>\n<p class=\"last-child\">Inside a reformed European Union our farmers get the best of both worlds \u2013 not only do they have access to a tariff-free market of 500million consumers, but they also benefit from the collective effort of Europe to make the industry more competitive on the world stage and better able to manage price volatility.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>At September\u2019s Agriculture and Fisheries Council the UK secured \u00a326 million of direct support for hard-pressed dairy farmers &#8211; the third largest allocation among all member states &#8211; that was promptly paid by the <abbr title=\"Rural Payments Agency\">RPA<\/abbr> to the industry across the whole UK. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Environment Secretary Elizabeth Truss gains backing from European countries for simplifying the Common Agricultural Policy audit scheme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68605"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}