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Cwestiynau Ysgrifenedig y Cynulliad a gyflwynwyd ar 13 Tachwedd 2014 i'w hateb ar 20 Tachwedd 2014

R - Yn dynodi bod yr Aelod wedi datgan buddiant.
W - Yn dynodi bod y cwestiwn wedi'i gyflwyno yn Gymraeg.

(Dangosir rhif gwreiddiol y Cwestiwn mewn cromfachau)

Rhaid cyflwyno Cwestiynau Ysgrifenedig o leiaf bum diwrnod gwaith cyn y disgwylir iddynt gael eu hateb.  Yn ymarferol, bydd Gweinidogion yn ceisio ateb o fewn saith neu wyth diwrnod ond nid oes rheidrwydd arnynt i wneud hynny.  Cyhoeddir yr atebion unwaith iddynt gael eu derbyn yn yr iaith y'u cyflwynir ynddi, gyda chyfieithiad i'r Saesneg o ymatebion a roddir yn y Gymraeg.

Gofyn i'r Gweinidog Cyfoeth Naturiol

Andrew RT Davies (Canol De Cymru):  A wnaiff y Gweinidog gadarnhau beth yw'r diffiniad o 'ffermwr actif' fel y'i amlinellir o dan y Polisi Amaethyddol Cyffredin? (WAQ68018)

Y Ddirprwy Weinidog Ffermio a Bwyd (Rebecca Evans): The European Commission Direct Payment Regulations 1307/2014 require claimants of the Basic Payment Scheme and Support Schemes to be ‘active farmers’. The regulations state that an active farmer cannot operate: railway services, airports, waterworks, real estate services, or permanent sport and recreational grounds. This is the so called ‘negative list’. If a person can evidence that their operation of these is small relative to their farming business they are eligible to claim payments however. Criteria of evidence for exemption from the negative list are set by the regulations with detail to be set by the Welsh Government. 

Furthermore, in order to be eligible for payments, claimants must demonstrate they are undertaking agricultural activity on land claimed for payments by one of the following practices. The regulations require the Welsh Government to define evidence requirements for the second and third bullet points

• Production, rearing or growing agricultural products, including harvesting, milking, breeding animals and keeping animals for farming purposes

• Maintaining agricultural areas in a state suitable for grazing and cultivation.

Maintain agricultural activity on land naturally kept in a state suitable for grazing or cultivation.

The Welsh Ministers will make a Statutory Instrument by January 2015 prescribing further details where the regulations require them to do so. A Cabinet Statement was made on 1 July 2014 which also provides the same detail and is available at:

http://wales.gov.uk/about/cabinet/cabinetstatements/2014/pillar1decisions/?lang=en

Kirsty Williams (Brycheiniog a Sir Faesyfed): A wnaiff y Gweinidog ddatganiad ar rinweddau gweithredu cynllun ad-dalu blaendal yng Nghymru fel ffordd o leihau sbwriel? (WAQ68019)