CAP: What changes with the issuance certificate for the preservation of organic agriculture – animal husbandry

Changes to the ecological scheme Π1-31.9 “Maintenance of methods of organic georgia and livestock», of the Strategic Plan of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), foresees an amending decision posted on Clarity.

Particularly according to the amending ministerial decision beneficiaries are active farmers or groups of active farmers who maintain organic cultivation or breeding and upon final submission of the Uniform Aid Application (GIS), have farm plots or pastures or farms, which are included in the organic farming system from January 1 up to and including December 31 of the aid year.

The inclusion of said plots and/or farms is documented by an active contract of the producer with an approved Control and Certification Organization (OEP), as well as by a certificate issued in electronic form using the traces system by the Control and Certification Organization, with which they are contracted. The certificate should have been issued at the latest by the date of submission of the EAE of the aid year.

The beneficiaries are obliged to apply the national and Community provisions on organic farming from January 1st to December 31st of the year of aid.

Also, have a certificate that has been issued no later than the date of submission of the EAE of the aid year and is valid at least until December 31 of the aid year. If the certificate in question expires before December 31 of the aid year, it must be renewed with a new certificate.

See the amending decision here.