{"id":1340004,"date":"2024-07-02T12:15:00","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T11:15:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.agriland.ie\/?p=1340004"},"modified":"2024-07-02T11:55:10","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T10:55:10","slug":"farmers-charter-set-to-be-agreed-amid-acres-clawback-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lightsail.agriland.ie\/farming-news\/farmers-charter-set-to-be-agreed-amid-acres-clawback-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmers’ Charter set to be agreed amid ACRES clawback fears"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
A meeting of farm organisations and the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine will take place today (Tuesday, July 2), with sources indicating a new Farmers’ Charter could be agreed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, the meeting will take place in an environment of concern over whether farmers who have been overpaid on the Agri Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES) will have that money clawed back through their Areas of Natural Constraint (ANC) Scheme payments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Farmers\u2019 Charter is a set of guidelines outlining how the department interacts with farmers on a number of issues, including scheme payments and farm inspections.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Negotiations on a new charter, to coincide with the current Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), have been ongoing for over a year, and now it appears that a final agreement is imminent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
It is understood that Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine Charlie McConalogue will attend today’s meeting in person. Normally, the minister is represented by department officials at these Farmers’ Charter meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The meeting in Dublin today is expected to get underway at around 4:00p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n