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Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 of 19 January 2009 establishing common rules for direct support schemes for farmers under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers, amending Regulations (EC) No 1290/2005, (EC) No 247/2006, (EC) No 378/2007 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 (repealed)
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1.Aid shall be granted to each farmer of suckler cows within the limit of the individual ceilings which have been established pursuant to Article 126(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003.
2.Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the sum of premium rights on their territory does not exceed the national ceilings set out in paragraph 5 and that the national reserve referred to in Article 114 may be maintained.
After the end of the period of application of the single area payment scheme in accordance with Article 122 and where Article 53(1) is applied, the allocation of the individual ceilings to producers and the setting up of the national reserve referred to in Article 114 shall take place no later than the end of the first year of application of the single payment scheme.
3.Where the adjustment referred to in paragraph 2 requires a reduction in the individual ceilings held by farmers, it shall be carried out without compensatory payment and decided on the basis of objective criteria, including, in particular:
(a)the rate at which farmers have used their individual ceilings during the three reference years prior to 2000;
(b)the implementation of an investment or extensification programme in the beef and veal sector;
(c)particular natural circumstances or the application of penalties, resulting in non-payment or reduced payment of the premium for at least one reference year;
(d)additional exceptional circumstances having the effect that the payments made for at least one reference year do not correspond to the actual situation as established during the previous years.
4.Premium rights which have been withdrawn under the measures taken pursuant to the first subparagraph of paragraph 2 shall be cancelled.
5.The following national ceilings shall apply:
Member State | National ceiling |
---|---|
Belgium | 394 253 |
Bulgaria | 16 019 |
Czech Republic | 90 300 |
Estonia | 13 416 |
Spain | 1 441 539 |
France | 3 779 866 |
Cyprus | 500 |
Latvia | 19 368 |
Lithuania | 47 232 |
Hungary | 117 000 |
Malta | 454 |
Austria | 375 000 |
Poland | 325 581 |
Portugal | 458 941 |
Romania | 150 000 |
Slovenia | 86 384 |
Slovakia | 28 080 |
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