compensatory allowance

When will he announce an enhanced hill livestock compensatory allowance?

Payments to farmers under the 1992 hill livestock compensatory allowances scheme have already begun.

Thirdly, there is strong support for the hill livestock compensatory allowances, amounting to £142 million in a full year.

Slightly increased maxima for compensatory allowances are specified.

However, common law partners do not have any legal rights between them, such as alimony, family patrimony, compensatory allowance and matrimonial regime.

Switching compensatory allowances for disadvantaged areas to the first pillar would have disastrous consequences for most regions.

Restructuring and topping up the compensatory allowance also create greater scope to reward specific contributions made by the farmers living in the less-favoured areas.

The Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowances should be used to compensate for natural handicaps and not to achieve environmental goals.

The aid package may be divided into four sections, viz compensatory allowances, investment aids, other EEC measures and national aids.

The levels of Idemnite Speciale (compensatory allowances) varies according to the LFA zone.

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food if he will make it his policy to include environmental protection features to the hill livestock compensatory allowance scheme.

The Commission is of the opinion that possible loss of income due to the introduction of the euro can best be offset by payment of compensatory allowances.

The law of 30 June 1975 established the third person compensatory allowance (Allocation compensatrice tierce personne or ACTP) for people with disabilities.

Some Government officials said that if he had taken the time to fully explain the increases, which were coupled with compensatory allowances for all citizens, the hikes might not have aroused such opposition.

Nevertheless, capital grants and the payment of compensatory allowances for hill livestock are likely to encourage agricultural intensification on land areas which in general are suitable for agricultural improvement.

I welcome the recent payment of the suckler cow premium and the ewe premium, but when will the hill livestock compensatory allowance be announced, and will it be increased?

Interference like that at EU level often brings with it a whole series of problems, for example in connection with the compensatory allowance for pensions, which opened the floodgates to abuse.

Before the HFA, hill farms we subsidized by the Hill Livestock Compensatory Allowances which were active as headage support to eligible beef cows and ewes.

I warmly welcome my right hon. Friend's commitment to continue financial support for the less-favoured areas in general and the hill livestock compensatory allowances in particular, where there are fewest opportunities for diversification.

Under this scheme, when a member of staff has to surrender a mortgage at a low fixed rate of interest for a new mortgage at a higher rate of interest, a compensatory allowance may be payable.

To ask the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food what steps he will take to ensure that early payments are made to farmers in respect of hill livestock compensatory allowances in response to the current economic climate.

There is provision for Member States to pay compensatory allowances at a higher rate under Article 15 where improvement or maintenance 'of the natural landscape' is important (e.g. farmers keeping a lower stocking density for nature conservation reasons).

It is, of course, vital that these needs be taken into account in the Structural Funds, but as regards agricultural activity in itself, such activity requires specific aid that is, in fact, a compensatory allowance for natural handicaps.

After a stormy debate in which the proposals came under fire from both sides of the House, MPs voted by 283 to 245 against a Labour call for the Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances)(Amendment) Regulations to be annulled.

On the subject of the Alpine regions I wish to pose two questions: on the one hand everything that refers to increasing compensatory allowances in the disadvantaged areas; and on the other greater support for Alpine pasturing within the agro-environmental measures.