The Board will appeal the Supreme Court regarding the fine from Brussels over grassland protection subsidies
The European Union demands the Spanish Government return 262.8 million euros as a result of the grassland admissibility coefficient because it believes that the land area entitled to these subsidies is smaller than what was declared. In the case of Extremadura, Brussels considers that the land underneath the holm oak trees cannot be included, and the fine rises to nearly 80 million euros.
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The Official State Gazette (BOE) has published the resolutions with the grassland subsidy amounts that the Ministry of Agriculture will charge from nine regions, and the Board of Extremadura will appeal before the Supreme Court because it believes that the Central Government should pay considering that it is the entity that Europe has fined.
The agricultural organisations of Extremadura speak out to protect farmers from paying. Asaja claims it's "unheard of" that this land isn't considered grassland and UPA-UCE calls to change European regulation to include it, while La Unión blames the Extremaduran general director of Agriculture and Livestock for not correctly handling the European regulation.
