EU to ditch requirement for geotagged images
The photos could avoid on-the-ground visits by inspectors to farms, and could reduce costs for national administrations. However, the photo system has been perceived as cumbersome and complex to implement.
Use of geotagged photos by farmers to support their EU payment claims is to be downgraded by the EU Commission from obligatory to voluntary for member states.
This follows a thumbs-down from farmers across Europe for the system of smartphone photographs which contain the GPS location of where the photo was taken.
