Apply for direct payment as coupled income support for suckler cows
If your farm does not sell cow's milk or cow's milk products, you have the option of receiving annual coupled income support for livestock farming. This financial support aims to promote the economic situation of farms that focus on alternative production methods.
The payment for suckler cows is granted nationwide per eligible suckler cow.
You can only apply for the payment if you keep at least three suckler cows on your farm.
Funding is available for female cattle that
- have calved at least once,
- are kept on your farm in the period from May 15 to August 15 of the respective year,
- and are properly identified and registered by the last day of this period at the latest. Identification and registration are carried out in accordance with the applicable EU regulations and the German Livestock Traffic Ordinance.
If an animal leaves the farm during this period for natural reasons (e.g. death), the requirements are still deemed to have been met, provided that the animal is quickly replaced by another eligible suckler cow.
- Proof of calving, if not registered in the HIT
- Proof of suckler cows killed by wolves
- You must be an active farmer in accordance with Section 8 of the Regulation on the implementation of CAP direct payments
- You must carry out an agricultural activity
- You must have at least three suckler cows on your farm
- The female cattle must have calved at least once
- Suckler cows that are kept on your farm in the period from May 15 to August 15 of the respective year are eligible for support.
Free of charge
- You complete the application and submit it together with the required documents.
- The application and documents will be checked for completeness.
- If the requirements for coupled income support are met, you will receive the corresponding payment.
Application deadline
Suckler cows that are kept on your farm in the period from May 15 to August 15 of the respective year are eligible for funding.
- Action before the administrative court
- Replacement animals
If an animal for which an application has been made becomes ineligible due to natural circumstances (death due to illness) during the holding period, it can be replaced by another eligible animal that has not yet been applied for ("replacement animal"). Replacement animals can also be purchased. This is subject to immediate notification to the MUKMAV, Unit A/5. However, if the farmer sells an animal applied for, it cannot be replaced by a substitute animal on the farm.
- Boarding or community animal
Under subsidy law, the keeper is the person who owns the animals, even if they are temporarily kept on a boarding farm. The keeper bears the economic risk for the entire period (including the consequences of the death of an animal) and is therefore only eligible to apply for the animal premium. No livestock premium may be claimed for animals for which the keeper is liable under the ViehVerkV but does not bear the economic risk (boarding animals).
- Force majeure and exceptional circumstances
If an animal is eliminated due to force majeure or exceptional circumstances, the farmer retains his entitlement to support for the animals that were eligible for support at the time the force majeure or exceptional circumstances occurred.
Ministry of the Environment, Climate, Mobility, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (MUKMAV) - Unit A/5 "EAFRD/EGFL Paying Agency and Audit Service"
Ministry of the Environment, Climate, Mobility, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (MUKMAV) - Unit A/5 "EAFRD/EGFL Paying Agency and Audit Service"
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.
- Proof of calving, if not registered in the HIT
- Proof of suckler cows killed by wolves
- You must be an active farmer in accordance with Section 8 of the Regulation on the implementation of CAP direct payments
- You must carry out an agricultural activity
- You must have at least three suckler cows on your farm
- The female cattle must have calved at least once
- Suckler cows that are kept on your farm in the period from May 15 to August 15 of the respective year are eligible for support.
Free of charge
- You complete the application and submit it together with the required documents.
- The application and documents will be checked for completeness.
- If the requirements for coupled income support are met, you will receive the corresponding payment.
Application deadline
Suckler cows that are kept on your farm in the period from May 15 to August 15 of the respective year are eligible for funding.
- Action before the administrative court
- Replacement animals
If an animal for which an application has been made becomes ineligible due to natural circumstances (death due to illness) during the holding period, it can be replaced by another eligible animal that has not yet been applied for ("replacement animal"). Replacement animals can also be purchased. This is subject to immediate notification to the MUKMAV, Unit A/5. However, if the farmer sells an animal applied for, it cannot be replaced by a substitute animal on the farm.
- Boarding or community animal
Under subsidy law, the keeper is the person who owns the animals, even if they are temporarily kept on a boarding farm. The keeper bears the economic risk for the entire period (including the consequences of the death of an animal) and is therefore only eligible to apply for the animal premium. No livestock premium may be claimed for animals for which the keeper is liable under the ViehVerkV but does not bear the economic risk (boarding animals).
- Force majeure and exceptional circumstances
If an animal is eliminated due to force majeure or exceptional circumstances, the farmer retains his entitlement to support for the animals that were eligible for support at the time the force majeure or exceptional circumstances occurred.
Ministry of the Environment, Climate, Mobility, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (MUKMAV) - Unit A/5 "EAFRD/EGFL Paying Agency and Audit Service"
Ministry of the Environment, Climate, Mobility, Agriculture and Consumer Protection (MUKMAV) - Unit A/5 "EAFRD/EGFL Paying Agency and Audit Service"
The text was automatically translated based on the German content.