The Production Rights Exemption Scheme (POR Scheme) will be definitively abolished on 1 January 2018. The Ministry of Economic Affairs (EZ) will announce this on Wednesday 18 October.
With the POR scheme, pig and poultry farmers have the opportunity to expand without buying rights. The condition is that all manure produced by the expansion must be processed and exported.
Definitely no extension
On Wednesday, October 18, this arrangement was definitively terminated. As a result, the POR scheme will expire on December 31, 2017. Failure to renew will affect companies that have invested in manure processing. In combination with preserving the pig and poultry rights according to Eric Douma, chairman of the POV, that is unacceptable.
"The rights from the second POR scheme will therefore expire on December 31, 2017. The poultry rights from the first POR opening, which are older than 10 years, will also expire. The other rights will expire 10 years after the effective date", says Hugo Bens, LTO-NOP manure and minerals portfolio holder. "Abolition has nothing to do with the environmental preconditions, but it is about counting tails. The sector has not exceeded the phosphate ceiling.
Go to court
The Producers Organization Pig Farming (POV) and the Netherlands Organization of Poultry Farmers (NOP) are taking measures to challenge this decision. That is why they go to court. According to the advocates, it is striking that this decision is now being taken, in the last days in which the cabinet is being formed.
Already decided
In the spring, Martijn van Dam already announced that the Regulation would not be extended. He has already indicated that a final decision on this would be made in the autumn.
The POR scheme was last opened in 2015.
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