Agreement to add maintenance paths as a landscape feature
Farmers will be authorisation to designate authorisation as landscape features for 2023.
The Executive Board (DB) of Noorderzijlvest Water Authority this Noorderzijlvest Water Authority on Tuesday, April 18, 2023. This decision was prompted by various requests from farmers based on the new Common Agricultural Policy (CAP). The authorisation for one year for the time being. An evaluation will follow thereafter.
Farmers may designate maintenance paths as landscape features
The new national Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) stipulates that farmers water authority designate maintenance paths managed by the water authority as landscape features. These paths then count toward the subsidy that farmers can receive for sustainable and future-proof agriculture. The Netherlands Enterprise Agency RVO) states that authorisation the owner is sufficient. The notice published on the water authority website water authority as a form of authorisation. If inspections reveal that written authorisation water authority the farmer is still required, farmers may contact the water authority regarding this matter.
Farmers will not take over maintenance from water authority
Noorderzijlvest Water Authority to follow its own management and maintenance plan. Farmers may only watercourse the portion of the maintenance paths—up to the point where they meet a watercourse —as a landscape feature. Only mowing the maintenance path is permitted as a form of actual use. Farmers will not receive authorisation any other actual use of the maintenance paths. Other actual uses include, for example, sowing their own crops. That is therefore not permitted.
Mowing of slope to be handled by water authority
Mowing the slope of the watercourse the responsibility of the water authority. By authorisation only for mowing the maintenance paths, the water authority mitigates water authority associated with the management and maintenance of the water system.
At the end of 2023, water authority will reviewauthorisation
After one year, the water authority will assess water authority went well and what lessons were learned. The executive board will then decide by May 15, 2024, whether to extend the authorisation year. The water authority may also decide water authority authorisation the authorisation the ditches. In 2024, a long-term policy will be established based on the experiences gained.