Farmers with a 2019 BPS claim worth more than €2,000 will receive a reimbursement from the 2018 FDM fund, with payments being made from 1 July 2020.
Each year the European Commission uses some of the BPS budget to create a ‘crisis reserve’. This can be used to support the farming industry in times of crisis, such as disease outbreak. To do this – and to make sure that the overall European budget for BPS is not exceeded – a mechanism called ‘financial discipline’ is used. ‘Financial discipline’ means BPS payments worth more than €2,000 across all Member States are reduced by an agreed percentage.
If the FDM funds have not been used to relieve a crisis, they are reimbursed to eligible farmers in the following scheme year.
