Farming Regulatory Authorities Flashcards
Why do we regulate?
- To provide a common framework in which to operate
- Reduce environmental damage
- loss of habitat
- Traceability and production standards (horse meat and donkey scandal)
- Unfair prices
- Sets out consequences if ignore
What deos regulation cover?
- Everything you do of farm!
o Farming practices (stocking density/crop choice)
o Production standards
o Feed and fertiliser used (Nitrogen levels)
o Animal welfare and medicines
o Water, Air and Environment
o Animal ID & movements
o Labour, standards of accomodation, wages
o Health and Safety
o Planning and building design, where build buildings, standards of buildings
o Access
o Marketing
Who Regulates?
- EU (majority)
2. National Government (increasing)
What is the agriculture Bill?
A high level framework setting out key powers for ministers to make payments to farmers (public money)
- it is an enabling bill, providing broad powers to current and future governments. Formed of 9 parts and 5 schedules:
1. New Financial Assistance Powers
2. Financial Support after Exiting the EU
3. Collection and Sharing of Data
4. Powers to Intervene in Agricultural Markets
5. Marketing Standards
6. Producer Organisations and Fairness in the supply Chain
7. WTO Agreement on Agriculture
8. Wales and Northern Ireland
9. Final Provisions - Government to pay farms for achieving certain outome
- Move that farmers will be paid on actual health outcome
What is the environment bill?
The environmental standards you have to adhere to.
Includes:
1. Environmental governance
2. Biodiversity and net gain – put building up, got to leave environment in better position
3. Local nature recovery strategies – use part going forward. Shift from food production subsidy to nature
4. Conservation covenants
5. Abstraction
6. Drainage
What is Public money for public goods?
• Environmental land management – make space for nature, improve habitats on farm: the MAIN one
• Public access to the countryside
• Measures to reduce flooding
• Animal health and welfare and plant and tree health
• Increasing the productivity of agricultural, horticultural or forestry activity
Drive towards environmental net gain being central. All policies and regulations around heading in green direction
What is Cross compliance?
A set of rules that underpins the basic payment scheme.
Is the profitability of a lot of businesses
What are the 2 elements of cross compliance and why is it important?
- Good Agricultural Environment Condition
- Statutory Management Requirements
- Important for disease outbreaks to track animals and movements
What does the element Good Agricultural Environment Condition of Cross Compliance involve?
looking after soil, water, public right of way, trees – concerned on what you do on the grounds
What does the element Statutory Management Requirements of Cross Compliance involve?
- All to do with record keeping and documents you must have
- Documents:
• Sheep – holding register detailing number and what sheep you have on farm at any one time and movements
-Identified with 2 tags
•Cattle same documents
-Passport- 2 tags
Failure to Cross Compliance
Failures are assessed as being negligible or Intent. Penalties are % taken off the grant received from agricultural support.
- N - penalties are less severe but inc as offences occur, eventually left with nothing
- I = immediately more severe consequence. % cut, fine, ban (especially if compromise animal welfare), jail.
What documents do you need to adhere to for cross compliance?
- ID and Movements
- E.g. number of sheep and cattle and movement which is sent to database
- Sheep 2 tags, individually numbered
- Cattle have passports
- Should know as government where EVERYTHING is in country and where been so if outbreak should be able to know ehere every animal is and trace the movement of that animal.
What are production standards?
- Standards go beyond regulatory requirements and relate to supply chains
- To gain market advantage
- E.g. red tractor assurance scheme.
Why did Farm Assurance Begin?
- Consumer confidence in UK produce was low after a number of high-profile food scares (BSE)
- Retailers concern about the production standards of suppliers
o The Food Safety Act was implemented in the 1990’s
-The primary objective of farm assurance schemes:
-To protect the reputation of UK agriculture
-Reduce the possibility of retailers developing their own schemes
What is farm assurance
- Voluntary schemes – don’t have to be part. Majority of retails want
- Encourages and monitors compliance with legal requirements and industry set standards
- There are numerous different assurance schemes:
- Red Tractor Schemes
- Farm Assured Welsh Livestock – Welsh Beef and Lamb
- Farm Assurance is one of the first steps in the assurance chain
