Disadvantage areas to be reclassified

Completion of the Irish Soil Information System (ISIS) by Teagasc, later this year, will trigger an exhaustive process to reclassify disadvantaged areas.

ISIS will complete the national soil survey, and will be part of a complicated calculation of what areas will qualify for the €195m-per-year funding agreed for disadvantaged areas from 2015 to 2020.

Under the CAP Reform agreement, member states have until 2018 to calculate the new areas, which will be known as Areas of Natural Constraint (ANC), or Areas of Natural Handicap (ANH).