How farmers who receive payments under the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) would be affected if the UK leaves the EU with ‘no deal’.
If the UK leaves the EU in March 2019 with no agreement in place, eligible beneficiaries will continue to receive payments under the terms of the UK government’s funding guarantee.
Defra and the devolved administrations are preparing domestic legislation (under the Withdrawal Act) to ensure we have the ability in law to continue operation of payments in a ‘no deal’ scenario. This legislation preserves the EU law as it currently stands, and ‘fixes’ the legislation so that it is operable once we’ve left the EU.
The domestic legislation will require beneficiaries to conform to the same standards as they do currently, in order to receive payments. This will include on-site inspections to UK farms receiving payments, which will continue as normal.
All of these rules and processes will remain the same until Defra and the devolved administrations introduce new agriculture policies, either through the Agriculture Bill due to be introduced in the UK Parliament, or an Agriculture Bill in one or more of the devolved parliaments.
The government has pledged to continue to commit the same cash total in funds for farm support until the end of this parliament, expected in 2022: this includes all funding provided for farm support under both Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 of the current CAP. This commitment applies to the whole UK.
This notice is meant for guidance only. You should consider whether you need separate professional advice before making specific preparations.
Remember we are net beneficaries of CAP.
This is a financial black hole. That is under public consultation. Everything stays the same in no deal - apart from who administers the scheme. How the fuck they are going to do physically isn't discussed or mentioned. I guess it involves hiring some people.
It then waffles for a couple of paragraphs about NI.
Which is as you can imagine.