GLAS guide: Farmers want more time to prepare for GLAS

Agriculture Minister Simon Coveney will extend the GLAS deadline from April 30 to May 22 (pending EU Commission approval), in light of the Commission’s announcement that Member States can extend the deadline for direct payment applications beyond May 15, and up to June 15.

Mr Coveney said a later date will provide significantly more time for applications in the first tranche of GLAS.

But pushing basic payment and GLAS deadlines back to mid-June would make it harder to get payments to farmers by the usual date in mid-October. He said he wants at least a week between the GLAS deadline and the basic payment deadline, which may be at the end of May.