Rural Payments Agency (Hansard, 23 April 2004)

§ Alun Michael

Complaints against the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) are interpreted as complaints in respect of decisions made under the Common Agricultural Policy schemes which it administers. Such complaints are therefore recorded against scheme type and not on a site by site basis.

Defoliation of all species by classes and class aggregates (2002)
Participating Countries	Area surveyed (1,000 ha)	No. of sample trees	0 none	1 slight	2 moderate	3+4 severe and dead	2+3+4
Albania	1,028	—	—	—	—	—	—
Austria	3,481	7,029	60.2	29.6	8.5	1.7	10.2
Belarus	7,845	9,690	34.9	55.6	8.2	1.3	9.5
Belgium	691	3,079	38.7	43.5	16.1	1.7	17.8
Bulgaria	3,314	5,303	24.1	38.8	29.9	7.2	37.1
Croatia	1,175	1,910	38.4	41.0	18.6	2.0	20.6
Cyprus	138	360	30.8	66.4	2.8	0.0	2.8
Czech Republic	2,630	7,013	11.6	35.0	52.7	0.7	53.4
Denmark	468	480	61.5	29.8	7.3	1.4	8.7
Estonia	2,249	2,169	45.9	46.5	6.6	1.0	7.6
Finland	15,006	8,593	54.6	33.9	10.5	1.0	11.5
France	13,100	10,355	40.1	38.0	20.3	1.6	21.9
Germany	10,264	13,534	35.1	43.5	20.0	1.4	21.4
Greece¹	2,512	1,768	42.1	37.0	16.6	4.3	20.9
Hungary	1,804	26,921	38.1	40.7	16.0	5.2	21.2
Ireland	399	424	43.9	35.4	16.0	4.7	20.7
Italy	7,699	7,165	20.3	42.4	33.4	3.9	37.3
Latvia	2,902	8,682	19.8	66.4	12.0	1.8	13.8
Liechtenstein	²—	²—	²—	²—	²—	²—	²—
Lithuania	1,858	5,162	16.4	70.8	9.6	3.2	12.8
Luxembourg	84	²—	²—	²—	²—	²—	²—
Rep. Of Moldova	318	11,489	25.2	32.3	32.6	9.9	42.5
The Netherlands	210	231	57.1	21.2	20.4	1.3	21.7
Norway	12,000	7,421	35.0	39.5	22.0	3.5	25.5
Poland	6,868	24,580	8.8	58.5	30.7	2.0	32.7
Portugal	3,233	4,350	47.8	42.6	8.9	0.7	9.6
Romania	6,244	104,366	62.7	23.8	12.0	1.5	13.5
Russian Federation³	6,315	4,144	37.9	51.2	10.2	0.7	10.9
Serbia/Montenegro⁴	—	1,104	80.8	15.3	3.7	0.2	3.9

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The RPA could not extrapolate the data required to break this figure down to site level without incurring disproportionate costs.