Public consultation on the draft interventions proposed for Ireland’s CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027

The European Commission launched its proposals on the reform of the Common Agricultural Policy in June 2018. In October 2020, following over two years of discussion, both the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament adopted their respective positions on the Commission’s proposals.

Political agreement was reached at the Council of Agriculture Ministers Meeting on 28 June. The legal texts have now been finalised and are expected to be adopted by the European Parliament in the autumn. Further technical rules will then be set out in secondary legislation thereafter. The latest version of the proposals are available here.

The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is currently developing Ireland’s CAP Strategic Plan for the period 2023 -2027 (CSP). The CSP will incorporate interventions under both Pillar I (Direct Payments and Sectoral Interventions) and Pillar II (Rural Development) and will build upon the progress made under previous programming periods.

As part of the ongoing process of designing the new CSP a set of proposed interventions outlines have been developed. These proposed intervention outlines build on the stakeholder input received to date, through the CAP Consultative Committee, as well as ongoing preparatory work undertaken within the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (in particular, the work undertaken on the SWOT analysis and Needs Assessment required under the CAP Strategic Plan Regulation).

Details of the draft interventions can be found here

The views of stakeholders and the wider public are now being sought on the composition of the proposed intervention outlines.

To ensure that maximum stakeholder input is received at this crucial stage of the CSP design process, there are two strands to the consultation process as follows:

a) written submissions, which are invited from interested parties by the closing date of 3 September 2021;

b) virtual townhall meetings, which will take place on 10, 11 and 12 August. Please click here to register.

Written submissions may be sent by email to CAPStrategicPlan@agriculture.gov.ie ,

or by post to:

CAP Rural Development Division

Agriculture House

Kildare Street

D02 WK12

Please mark your submissions ‘draft interventions for CAP Strategic Plan’

You may also may submissions online here

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The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is collecting this data to inform the development of the CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027. All submissions, including the name of the person or organisation making the submission, may be shared with our external consultants who are conducting the ex-ante assessment, Strategic Environmental Assessment and Appropriate Assessment on our behalf.

All submissions, including the name of the person or organisation making the submission, will be published on the Department’s website however if you wish to make a submission but not be identified publicly this can be accommodated provided it is clearly indicated when the submission is made. When making a submission please indicate if you agree, or not, to your name being published on the Departments website. Should you wish to later withdraw this given consent then please email us at CAPStrategicPlan@agriculture.gov.ie.

All submissions and comments submitted to the Department for this purpose are subject to release under the Freedom of Information (FOI) Act 2014 and the European Communities (Access to Information on the Environment) Regulations 2007- 2014. Submissions are also subject to Data Protection legislation. Personal, confidential or commercially sensitive information should not be included in your submission and it will be presumed that all information contained in your submission is releasable under the Freedom of Information Act 2014.

The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine is collecting this data to inform the development of the CAP Strategic Plan 2023-2027. All submissions, including the name of the person or organisation making the submission, may be shared with our external consultants who are conducting the ex-ante assessment, Strategic Environmental Assessment and Appropriate Assessment on our behalf. This data will be processed in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR EU 2016/679), the Data Protection Acts 1988-2018, the Freedom of Information Act 2014 and the DPER Consultation Principles and Guidance. Any additional personal data received as part of your submission will not be processed, shared, or retained and will be destroyed upon receipt. Publication to the Departments website of personal data associated with submissions will only take place where permission is received to do this.

Further information on Data Protection can be found on here

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A large number of submissions have been received. These submissions are being reviewed and this site will be updated regularly as the reviews have been examined.

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