LTO Northern Chairman Dirk Bruins
“I see a lot that we have argued for recently, these cabinet plans bear witness to more realism. You have to change something in legislation. The fact that the arithmetic lower limit goes up is good for the PAS servants.”
The LTO leader is also happy that a new standard will come. “If a farmer is further than 250 meters of nitrogen -sensitive nature, it is no longer possible to determine whether the nitrogen that ends up in that nature is from that farmer or from another, industry or abroad.”
Bruins also sees that there is still little concrete on the table, for example on schemes. “But I think the direction in which the government works is the good one. And what is about concrete measures to date does not work either.”
“But it still remains a huge task. And with sufficient financial resources, it falls or falls for voluntary stoppers, business relocations or adjusting business operations.” There really needs more money, Bruins emphasizes. He expects the cabinet to come to Prinsjesdag with that.
Director Reinder Hoekstra of Nature and Environmental Federation Drenthe
“This is gloomy and disappointing. What the cabinet is coming with now is paper thin. It is again announcing that they are going to do things. But it is not concrete, not hard. This does not start the granting of permits,” Sombert Hoekstra.
“They have been working for a year now, they should not come up with a starting shot but with measures. I now call it the Ministry of Vooruit or Ministry of the False Start. This does not help nature, but also agriculture. And the provinces are therefore between shore and ship.”
Hoekstra cannot be satisfied at all about the postponement of achieving the nitrogen goals.
Agricultural deputy Gert-Jan Schuinder
According to the association of the twelve Dutch provinces, the Interprovincial Consultation (IPO), the cabinet plans provide insufficient clarity and do not offer any perspective for farmers and other sectors. “Schuinder is more positive than the IPO, but also has worries.
The province of Drenthe is working on “a translation of the national plans into the Drenthe practice. We have many nitrogen-sensitive Natura 2000 areas. We are investigating where we can make movement and what the space announced by the government can mean for local customization. This fits in how we work with the area-oriented approach in Drenthe.”
The agricultural deputy sees it as a first step to get our country from the nitrogen lock. “We would like to point out that the tasks belong to these tasks and that a legally anchored approach is necessary. I do not want that, for example, if we start in Veenhuizen, the judge will put a line through it again.”