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5. Responding to the CAP Health Check
5.1 The Scottish Government will be discussing the UK's negotiating position on the CAP Health Check with Defra and the devolved administrations in Northern Ireland and Wales. Responses to this consultation paper will be used to help formulate the Scottish Government's position. In addition, a CAP Health Check stakeholder group has been established; details of membership and terms of reference are given in Annex 2.
5.2 It is expected that political decisions on the CAP Health Check will be reached at the October 2008 meeting of the Agriculture and Fisheries Council. This would allow for implementation from 2009. It is likely that some decisions will leave individual countries with flexibility on implementation.
5.3 Accordingly, in addition to questions 1 and 2 in section 3.6, the Scottish Government would welcome you views on the following questions:
Q3. What are your views on the proposed changes to cross-compliance requirements (see paragraph 2 of Annex 1 for more detail)? How should this be implemented in Scotland?
Q4. What are your views on the abolition of set-aside and set-aside entitlements (see paragraph 3 of Annex 1 for more detail)? Please explain what measures you think should be taken to maintain the environmental benefits of set-aside (see paragraphs 4.2 - 4.4).
Q5. What are your views on proposals for further decoupling of support (see paragraph 4 of Annex 1 for more detail)?
Q6. What are your views on using the national reserve to give new entrants access to SFP? How should "new entrant" be defined? (see paragraphs 4.5 - 4.7, and paragraph 6 of Annex 1)?
Q.7. What are your views on proposals for increased flexibility in the use of the national reserve, simplification of payment entitlements, transfer of payment entitlements, the move to making payments twice a year; and clarification to the meaning of a farmer and to the definition of a "eligible hectare" (see paragraphs 4.8 - 4.9, and paragraphs 1, 3, 4, 6 and 8 of Annex 1 for more detail)?
Q8. What are your views on proposals for increased flexibility in the use of the national envelope? How should this increased flexibility be used in Scotland? (see paragraphs 4.10 - 4.13, and paragraph 5 of Annex 1 for more detail)
Q9. What are your views on proposals for increasing compulsory modulation with progressively higher rates for certain businesses (see paragraph 9 of Annex 1 for more detail)?
Q10. What are your views on proposals for setting a minimum threshold (by level of SFP or area of holding) below which no payments are made (see paragraph 7 of Annex 1 for more detail)?
Q11. What are your views on proposals for simplifying and harmonising mechanisms for intervention in commodity markets (see paragraph 12 of Annex 1 for more detail)?
Q12. What are your views on proposals for gradually increasing milk quotas as prelude to ending milk quotas in 2015 and abolition of private storage aid for cheese and disposal aid for a number of other dairy products (see paragraph 11 of Annex 1 for more detail)?
Q13. What are your views on proposals for changing a number of small support schemes, including decoupling of the protein crop scheme and abolition of the energy crop scheme (see paragraph 4 of Annex 1 for more detail)?
Q14. Do you have any other general comments or views?
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