RPA Business Plan 2012-13 final .pdf - The Rural Payments Agency ...

Annex D
Potential new activity
62. The department has made RPA aware of a number of areas of potential new activity for this
year. When the requirements become clearer, we will work with Defra to determine and agree
what needs to be done and the best way to implement it, taking account of the fact that some
activities will require new resources (which may have to be found by stopping existing activities).
These areas include:
• The new EU Dairy Package is likely to have some impacts on RPA and our customers.
We are presently working closely with Defra to prepare to analyse the detailed regulations
due in 2012, and establish the scale and nature of the changes.
• Negotiations regarding the introduction of European legislation on the electronic identification
of cattle are ongoing, and may require RPA to make changes to British Cattle Movement
Service (BCMS).
• We will be looking at those producers who are currently suspended from the Fruit and
Vegetable Producer Organisation Scheme to establish whether we can lift their suspensions
or have to derecognise them.
• We are analysing our duties under the inspection regime for olive oil which may result in
changes to our activities.
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