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The Cyprus Agricultural Payments Agency (CAP) announces that, in the context of the processing of the Single Application for Extensive Payments 2023, the processing has been completed and 29,000 of the approximately 29,500 applications submitted have been paid. The small number of pending applications concerns applications with deficiencies and/or errors that will have to be thoroughly studied and gradually processed.
In this respect, the CMO has largely complied with the schedule announced in relation to the payment of aid. Although this year is the first of the new programming period which has introduced a number of amendments which the Paying Agencies, and the Member States in general, are obliged to incorporate both in their Information Systems and in their national legislation, the FIFG has managed, with minor delays, to reform its systems appropriately and to be able to process the applications submitted correctly, as required by European legislation. Although this legislation allows the Paying Agencies to pay the aids from 1 December 2023 until 30 June 2024, the CFCA has already paid the aids in question, with a few exceptions.
With regard to relevant allegations by the Pancyprian Wheat Producers Organisation about "unjustified delays" in the payment of extensification subsidies, it should be stressed that it is the task of the CMO to pay the aid to the beneficiary applicants after the completion of all the required administrative and on-the-spot checks, which are dictated by the relevant European Union Regulations and the "Strategic Plan of the Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) 2023-2027" of Cyprus.
Cases of applications with particularities, such as deficiencies and/or errors, require more time for the proper completion of their processing.
Direct payments also include payments for headage payments, which have been paid in full, as well as payments from the Ecological Programmes, which are paid at the same time as other extensification payments.
As shown above, the claim of a delay in the payment of the relevant payments is in no way justified.
Concerning the comment of the Pancyprian Wheat Producers Organisation about real support for the primary sector, we clearly agree that changes to the strategic plan of Cyprus, as agreed between the Ministry of Agriculture and the Farmers' Organisations, should be considered.
The primary sector is not only about Wheat Producers but all sectors of agriculture and livestock farming.
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