Scottish Derogation applications

Applications will soon open for persons who never held Single Payment Scheme entitlements, either owned or leased, but who can produce verifiable evidence that they actively farmed in 2013.

“The terms and conditions of this provision and its application in Member states is currently the subject of discussion with the EU Commission and the outcome is expected very shortly”, said Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney in the Dáil.

Known as the “Scottish Derogation”, this CAP reform provision will allow for payments to be made to farmers who did not receive a direct payment in 2013 under the Single Payment Scheme, the Grassland Sheep Scheme, the Burren Farming for Conservation Scheme or the Beef Data Programme, who therefore do not hold an automatic allocation right to receive entitlements under the Basic Payment Scheme in 2015.