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05/02/2014
Ireland's Nitrates Derogation Renewal Welcomed
The Minister for the Environment, Community and Local Government, Phil Hogan TD, and the Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, Mr Simon Coveney TD, has announced that Ireland has today secured a derogation under the Nitrates Directive after a vote at a meeting of the EU Nitrates Management Committee in Brussels.
The decision follows on Minister Hogan's signing last week of the new Nitrates Regulations which give effect to Ireland's third Nitrates Action Programme. The programme will now be amended to reflect the terms of the derogation. Today's derogation vote will allow more intensive farmers to operate at a higher stocking rate than that stipulated in the Directive, subject to adherence to stricter rules to be implemented by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The derogation will run to the end of 2017, when the third programme concludes.
Minister Hogan said: "The decision is a recognition by fellow EU Member States that Ireland is maintaining a balanced commitment to ongoing improvements in water quality while also generating greater value from the agri-food sector.
"Both aims can be compatible and our successful implementation of the Nitrates Regulations and the associated derogation over the first two Action Programmes has shown that."
(CD/JP)
The decision follows on Minister Hogan's signing last week of the new Nitrates Regulations which give effect to Ireland's third Nitrates Action Programme. The programme will now be amended to reflect the terms of the derogation. Today's derogation vote will allow more intensive farmers to operate at a higher stocking rate than that stipulated in the Directive, subject to adherence to stricter rules to be implemented by the Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine. The derogation will run to the end of 2017, when the third programme concludes.
Minister Hogan said: "The decision is a recognition by fellow EU Member States that Ireland is maintaining a balanced commitment to ongoing improvements in water quality while also generating greater value from the agri-food sector.
"Both aims can be compatible and our successful implementation of the Nitrates Regulations and the associated derogation over the first two Action Programmes has shown that."
(CD/JP)
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