Common Agricultural Policy Andreas Gumbert DG Agriculture and Rural - - PDF document

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Andreas Gumbert

DG Agriculture and Rural Development, Unit H4

European Commission

Bioenenergy and Biomass within the

Common Agricultural Policy

EU Common Agricultural Policy 2014-2020

Pillar I:

Direct support Market measures

277.85 billion EUR (2014-20)

• No direct support

for biomass or bioenergy production

• Cross-compliance
• Greening
• bligations

Pillar II:

Rural Development

84.94 billion EUR (2014-20)

• RD Policy remains

the key policy for renewable energy under the CAP

• National/regional

RD plans

Common Agricultural Policy

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CAP 2014-2020 Climate-related measures

• New ‘green’ payment in Pillar I
• Two environmental priorities for rural

development and minimum spending (30%)

• Research, innovation and knowledge transfer and

an improved Farm Advisory System

• 6. Social inclusion,

poverty reduction and economic development in rural areas

• 2. Farm viability,

competitiveness, innovative farm technologies, sustainable forest management

• 3. Food chain
• rganisation, incl.

processing/marketing, animal welfare and risk management

• 4. Restoring,

preserving and enhancing ecosystems

• 5. Resource efficiency

and shift towards a low carbon and climate resilient economy

• 1. Knowledge

transfer and Innovation Rural development priorities Focus areas

Innovation, Climate Change and Environment

Cross-cutting

• bjectives

(a) innovation, cooperation, and the development of the knowledge base; (b) links between agriculture, food production and forestry and research and innovation; (c) lifelong learning and vocational training. (a) economic performance of all farms and farm restructuring and modernisation, notably to increase market participation/orientation and diversification; (b) facilitating entry of adequately skilled farmers and generational renewal. (a) integration of primary producers into the agri-food chain: quality schemes, adding value, promotion in local markets and short supply circuits, producer groups/ organisations; (b) farm risk prevention and management. (a) biodiversity, including in Natura 2000 areas, areas facing natural or other specific constraints and high nature value farming, and the state of European landscapes; (b) water management, including fertiliser and pesticide management; (c) prevention of soil erosion and soil management. (a) efficiency in water use (b) efficiency in energy use (c) renewable sources of energy, by products, wastes and non-food raw material for the bio-economy (d) reduction of greenhouse gas and ammonia emissions (e) carbon conservation and sequestration (a) diversification, creation and development of small enterprises and job creation (b) local development in rural areas (c) information and communication technologies (ICT) in rural areas

Strategic programming

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30%

minimal spending

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What type of support is possible under Rural Development?

Investments in agricultural holdings

• Examples:
• Agricultural holdings: Production of bio-energy for on-farm use
• Processing/marketing/development: Processing of agricultural biomass for RE (by actors
• ther than agricultural holdings)
• Infrastructure: Installations/infrastructure for distribution of RE using biomass and
• ther RE sources (solar, wind, geothermal)
• Conditions (Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 639/2014):
• Maximum proportions of cereals and other starch rich crops, sugars and oil crops

used for bioenergy production, including biofuels

• Minimum utilization of heat in installations for electricity production from biomass (level to

be determined by the MS)

• Minimum energy efficiency standards for investments into energy infrastructure
• Sustainability criteria, including Article 17(2) to (6) of Directive 2009/28/EC

6 General State Aid rules apply for marketing of RE

• uside the farm

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Farm and business development

• Examples:
• Business start-up for RE producers and inter-linked activities
• Creation & development of non-agricultural activities: RE production
• Different RE activities (e.g. biomass, wind, solar, geothermal)
• RE production as part of non-agricultural diversification activities, if the

production exceeds the annual energy consumption on the holding

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Basic services and village renewal in rural areas

• Examples:
• Distribution networks for heat/electric power/gas from biomass or other renewable

sources

• Facilities to produce and use RE in rural municipalities (e.g. district heating networks to

use process heat of bio-energy plants)

• Support of RE infrastructure possible without any size limitation (i.e. large-

scale projects are covered)

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5 Co-operation

and

Setting up of producer groups and organisations

• Examples cooperation:
• Pilot and demonstration projects for RE
• Development of new products, practices, processes and technologies for RE
• Horizontal and vertical co-operation among supply chain actors in the

sustainable provision of biomass for use in food and energy production and industrial processes.

• Examples producer groups:
• Jointly placing on the market of biomass; joint supply to bulk buyers

Conclusions

• Bioenergy important for EU renewable energy
• bjectives
• EU RE policy main driver
• CAP provides important support options under

Rural Development Policy

• Assessment of RDPs ongoing

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Thank you