The Rural Development (Amendment) (No. 2) (England) Regulations 2022

Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 640/2014

7.—(1) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 640/2014 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the integrated administration and control system and conditions for refusal or withdrawal of payments and administrative penalties applicable to direct payments, rural development support and cross compliance(1), is amended, insofar as it relates to rural development support measures, as follows.

(2) In Article 5 (identification of agricultural parcels), paragraph 2, omit “and payment claims”.

(3) In Article 16 (non-declaration of all areas), paragraph 1, for the words from “and the difference” to “with Article 28(2)” substitute “then the support under area-related support measures payable to that beneficiary for that year must be calculated on the basis of the area determined or the area declared, whichever is the lower”.

(4) In Article 35 (non-compliance with the eligibility criteria other than the size of area or number of animals, commitments or other obligations)—

(a) in paragraph 5, for the words “the same measure or type of operation” substitute “any financial assistance scheme(s) under section 1 of the Agriculture Act 2020”;

(b) in paragraph 6, for the words “the same measure or type of operation” substitute “any financial assistance scheme(s) under section 1 of the Agriculture Act 2020”.

(1)

EUR 2014/640, as amended by S.I. 2019/765 (for certain purposes including in relation to rural development support measures); there are other amending instruments, but none is relevant.