1.Payment entitlements may be transferred only to a farmer established within the same Member State except in the case of transfer by actual or anticipated inheritance.
However, even in the case of actual or anticipated inheritance, payment entitlements may be used only in the Member State where the payment entitlements were established.
A Member State may decide that payment entitlements may be transferred or used only within one and the same region.
2.Payment entitlements may be transferred by sale or any other definitive transfer with or without land. In contrast, lease or similar types of transactions shall be allowed only if the payment entitlements transferred are accompanied by the transfer of an equivalent number of eligible hectares.
3.Where payment entitlements are sold, with or without land, Member States may, acting in compliance with the general principles of Community law, decide that part of the payment entitlements sold revert to the national reserve or that their unit value is reduced in favour of the national reserve, in accordance with criteria to be defined by the Commission in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 141(2).