Rate of supplementary payment
5. After regulation 12 (rate of payment of less favoured area support) insert:–
“Rate of supplementary payment
12(a).—(1) For the purposes of regulation 8(a), the rate of payment of less favoured area support shall be determined in accordance with this regulation.
(2) Where, for the purposes of regulation 9, the grazing category of land, as specified in schedule 5, is A or B, the rate of payment shall be the rate per hectare of the payable area set out in the entry in the second column in Part I (more disadvantaged land) of Schedule 7(a) corresponding to the fragility category in the first column of that Part of that Schedule applicable to the applicant in terms of paragraph (4).
(3) Where, for the purposes of regulation 9, the grazing category of land, as specified in Schedule 5, is C or D, the rate of payment shall be the rate per hectare of the Payable Area set out in the entry in the second column in Part II (less disadvantaged land) of Schedule 7(a) corresponding to the fragility category in the first column of that Part of that Schedule applicable to the applicant in terms of paragraph (4).
(4) For the purposes of paragraphs (2) and (3), the fragility category applicable to the applicant shall be determined according to the fragility category of the parish in which the main farm of the applicant lies as set out in Schedule 8 to these Regulations.
(5) For the purpose of paragraph (4), the main farm of the applicant shall be the farm identified as the main farm in the application for less favoured area support submitted by the applicant in accordance with regulation 3.”.