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Flatter rate: Germany‘s experience
Andreas Müller
Unit 617 (Direct Payments)
Federal Ministry of Food, Agriculture and
Consumer Protection
D-53123 Bonn
Tel.: 0228 / 99 529 - 4113
E-mail: [email protected] Fax: 0228 / 99 529 - 3429
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The German hybrid model in short
• Dynamic model moving from a hybrid model
towards a regional model
• Static phase 2005-2009: hybrid model
• Transitional phase 2010-2013: progessive
approximation of the value of all payment
entitlements (PE) in a region to the regional
average
• 2012: Decoupling of still coupled payments; i. e.
from 2012 only SPS payment in Germany
• Regional model 2013: all PE in each region have
the same value
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…. Considerations determining choice
• dynamic hybrid model
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regional model is linked with significant income
reallocations for farmers
offers farmers enough time to adapt to the new
system
capable of winning political majority
historic imbalances between farmers and regions
can be balanced
long term justification of decoupled direct
payments towards tax payers:
• Historical model not acceptable in long term uneven distribution of decoupled support
• area related flat rate amounts as compensation for
high EU standards and for landscape conservation
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1. Starting point 2005: hybrid model
• 13 regions: Länder federal states (except city
states)
• Allocation of national ceiling to regions:
objective criteria: 35% area-based, 65% historical
origin) = limited reallocation of historic
payment volumes between regions
• Direct payments allocated according regional
model: flat rate amounts for permanent pasture
and other eligible area (arable land) declared by
the farmer in 2005
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Direct payments allocated according regional model:
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crop premia → arable land:
Premia for arable crops, seeds, hops, 75 % of decoupled starch
potato
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livestock premia → permanent pasture:
slaughter premia for adult cattle, national additional payments for
catte, 50 % of extensification premium for cattle
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Determination of ratio between permanent pasture and
arable land
•
Option for regions to modify ratio within certain limits
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Regional values
48 – 111 €/ha for permanent pasture;
255 - 322 €/ha for arable land
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Direct payments allocated according historic model:
• farm specific top ups according production in reference
period/at reference date:
100 % of premia for suckler cows, male bovins, calves,
milk, sheep;
50 % of extensification supplements for beef;
25 % of decoupled potato starch premium,
100 % decoupled part of tobacco and dried fodder
premia as well as sugar compensation
• value of payment entilements (PE):
area related amount + individual top ups (except PE for set
aside)
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2. Approximation to regional flat rates
• Basis for the calculation of the approximation to
the flat rate = value of the payment entitlement in
2009
• Change of value of each payment entitlement in
each year from 2010 to 2013 is executed by the
Central IACS Database (ZID), where changes of
the value are visible since 2010 for farmers for
the whole period
• Reference amounts for decoupling in 2012 as on
top supplement.
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Approximation Phase 2010-2013
Remaining ∆
between
intitial and
final value (%)
PE 1
€
PE 2
€
2009
2010
2011
100
90
70
40
0
500
484
452
404
340
500 - 340 =
160
= 500 –
(160 x 0,10)
= 500 –
(160 x 0,30)
= 500 –
(160 x 0,60)
100
124
172
244
100 - 340 =
-240
= 100 +
(240 x 0,10)
= 100 +
(240 x 0,30)
= 100 +
(240 x 0,60)
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Regional flat rates in 2013
Region
regional flat rate (€/ha)
after decoupling in 2012
Baden-Württemberg
Bayern
Berlin/Brandenburg
Hessen
Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Niedersachsen/Bremen
Nordrhein-Westfalen
Rheinland-Pfalz
Saarland
Sachsen
Sachsen-Anhalt
Schleswig-Holstein/Hamburg
Thüringen
308,05
354,55
300,30
299,58
329,44
352,38
359,44
294,54
258,96
357,26
354,97
358,83
346,35
309
361
306
300
333
366
360
296
296
359
358
359
348
Average Germany
339,23
344
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Type of farmers negatively affected by the
move to regional flat rates
Value of entitlements higher than the regional flat rate
• Farmers with reference amounts of tobacco,
• Intensive beef farms (fattening of male bovins,
dairy farms with silage corn as main feed source),
• Sheep farmers and calf fattening farms with no or
limited area holding special entitlements,
• Arable crop farmers with high reference amounts
for sugar beet.
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Type of farmers positively affected by the move to
regional flat rates
Value of entitlements higher than the regional flat rate
• Farmers disposing mainly over permanent
pasture but without reference amounts from
animal production,
• Dairy farmers, farmers with succler cows, as well
as sheep and goat farmers with extensive use of
permanent pasture,
• Arable crop farmers without any reference
amounts (e. g. from starch potatoes, sugar beet,
beef production).
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Conclusions
• 5-year static period + additional 4-year
transitional period for adapting farmers to
the new situation
• attempts for exemptions for certain sectors
(sugar, milk) could be rejected
• farmers seem to have accepted flat rate
despite of considerale reallocation of
funds ?
• Outlook for the future: uniform value for
the whole country
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Thank you very much for
your attention !
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