PEGAPP

Project information
According to the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP), in addition to the Basic Payment Scheme, each holding will receive a payment per hectare for respecting certain agricultural practices beneficial for the climate and the environment. Member States will use 30% of their national envelope in order to pay for this greening approach. Article 45(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 provides for the protection of the share of permanent grassland compared to the total agricultural area. Individual reconversions and a prohibition of further conversions should be required in case of a decrease beyond 5%. In order to achieve this goal, Member States should monitor the evolution of the share of permanent grassland. The task of monitoring the evolution of the share of permanent grassland is not so easy and trivial especially for the south European Member States where the morphology and the special features of the permanent grassland are too different compared to the northern countryside. To this context, agricultural producers possessing livestock need to utilize and to declare during its own community aids applications (Pillar 1 applications) such an amount of permanent grassland (i.e., pasture) that excuses the greening payment. PEGAPP deals with the green direct payment in a way that it deploys an ICT product that facilitates the European agricultural producers owning livestock to comply with the greening demands of the new CAP regarding the maintenance of the permanent grassland. Specifically, the PEGAPP ICT product enables the composition of viable pasture management plans. The main project idea refers to the deployment of an application that addresses mainly to agriculturalists (without excluding agricultural producers) in order to help beneficiaries who declare pastures (in the context of their community aids applications) to maintain these pastures without serious variations for the next three years (greening measure compliance).
Project partners: 
NEUROPUBLIC SA
Project dates: 
March 2014 to September 2016
Contact
Contact person: 
JOHN MAVROUDIS
Contact email: 
Contact organisation: 
NEUROPUBLIC SA
Funding
Funding agency: 
SmartAgriFood FIWARE accelerator
Grant: 
k€99
Total budget: 
k€131