1. SURVEY ON SIMPLIFICATION OF DIRECT PAYMENTS

2. Questionnaire with 22 proposals Indicate whether a proposal is relevant to your Paying Agency (PA) and, whether you support implementation of the proposal (3 possible answers: YES; NO; N/A) Evaluate the impact of the proposed solution on: reduction of costs for the PA reduction of the error rate reduction of costs for farmers (Used grades from 1 to 5, where 1 is little impact, 5 very significant reduction) Provide additional proposals, important to your PA 2 Survey on simplification of Direct payments

3. 3 Should the proposal be implemented?

4. 4 Cost reduction for farmers TOP5

5. 5 Error rate reduction TOP5

6. 6 Cost reduction for Paying Agencies TOP5

7. 7 Total impact on costs and error rate TOP 5

8. 8 Total impact on costs and error rate all 22 proposals

9. 9 Summary of the survey results Direct payments Proposal Should the proposal be implemented (Yes/No) Average rate for reduction of costs for PA (rank) Average rate for error rate reduction (rank) Average rate for reduction of costs for farmers (rank) Total average rate for costs and error rate reduction (rank) 1. Coupled support for livestock animals – non-compliances with regard to identification and registration14/21.8 (22)3.2 (5)2.7 (12)7.7 (16) 2. Greening - crop diversification, declaration of crops9/21.9 (18)2.5 (15)2 (17)6.4 (21) 3. Greening- period of crop diversification8/72.1 (17)2.1 (20)2 (18)6.2 (22) 4. Greening - crop diversification thresholds20/02.6 (10)3.1 (6)3.1 (5)8.8 (5) 5. Greening- EFA catch crops, allow single crop10/03.9 (2)3.5 (1)3.5 (2)10.9 (1) 6. Greening- EFA catch crops, allow mixtures with herbaceous forage crops6/12.2 (16)2.5 (14)3.2 (3)7.9 (12) 7. Greening- nitrogen-fixing crops, mixtures with cereals or grasses13/41.9 (19)2.7 (10)3.2 (4)7.8 (14) 8. Greening – treatment of EFAs exceeding maximum size12/41.9 (20)2.7 (11)2.8 (10)7.4 (19) 9. Greening – minimum size for all types of EFAs16/22.5 (13) 1.9 (19)6.9 (20) 10. Greening- tolerance of areas17/12.6 (11)3.1 (7)3.1 (6)8.8 (6) 11. Greening- reduction of the control rate20/03.5 (6)2.2 (19)2.3 (15)8 (11) 12. Greening – requirement to create the EFA-layer in the LPIS covering all potential EFAs19/03.9 (3)2.6 (12)1.9 (20)8.4 (8) 13. Greening – requirement to create the EFA-layer in the LPIS covering elements remaining for 3 years20/03.5 (7)2.4 (16)1.7 (22)7.6 (17) 14. Active farmer- negative list16/33.3 (8)2.7 (9)2.9 (8)8.9 (4) 15. Reduction of payments –salaries and taxes paid by a farmer11/03.6 (5)2.8 (8)2.9 (9)9.3 (3) 16. Small Farmers Scheme- requirement to keep area6/02.3 (15)3.5 (2)3.7 (1)9.5 (2) 17. Small Farmers Scheme- control rate10/04.2 (1)2.2 (18)1.8 (21)8.2 (10) 18. Financial discipline- reimbursement20/03.9 (4)2 (21)2.5 (13)8.4 (9) 19. General- payments to farmers before all on-the-spot checks are finalised15/52.5 (14)2 (22)3 (7)7.5 (18) 20. General- tolerance to over-declaration15/42.6 (12)3.2 (4)2.8 (11)8.6 (7) 21. General- correction of unintended and general mistakes14/31.9 (21)3.4 (3)2.5 (14)7.8 (13) 22. General- payment entitlements6/43.2 (9)2.3 (17)2.3 (16)7.8 (15)

10. Most controversial proposals (≥25% of PA voting for the proposal are against it) -No3: Greening- period of crop diversification (8 YES / 7 No) -No22: General- payment entitlements (6/4) -No8: Greening – treatment of EFAs exceeding maximum size (12/4) -No19: General- payments to farmers before all on-the-spot checks are finalized (15/5) Additional proposals received form the Paying Agencies 10 Discussions on simplification proposals