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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amending Regulations (EC) No 1290/2005, (EC) No 247/2006, (EC) No 378/2007 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 (repealed)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.The Member States having granted payments in the sheepmeat and goatmeat sector or the beef and veal payments in accordance with Section 2 of Chapter 5 of Title III of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 may decide, by 1 August 2009, to continue to grant these payments under the conditions laid down in this Section. They may also decide to set the part of the component of their national ceilings to be used to grant these payments at a lower level than that decided in accordance with Article 64(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003. Where a Member State does not take that decision, the payments shall be integrated into the single payment scheme from 2010 in accordance with Article 66 of this Regulation.
In the case of the beef and veal payments referred to in Article 53(2) of this Regulation, Member States may also decide, by 1 August 2010, not to grant these payments but to integrate them into the single payment scheme from 2011 in accordance with Article 66 of this Regulation.
Where a Member State excluded all or part of the fruit and vegetable payments from the single payment scheme pursuant to Article 68b of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, it may:
(a)from 2010, grant the fruit and vegetable payments under the conditions laid down in this Section and in accordance with the decision taken on the basis of Article 68b(1) and (2) or 143bc(1) and (2) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003; or
(b)decide, by 1 August 2009, to integrate the fruit and vegetable payments excluded from the single payment scheme pursuant to Article 68b of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 into the single payment scheme, in accordance with Article 66 of this Regulation; or
(c)decide, by 1 August 2009 to grant the transitional fruit and vegetable payment under the conditions laid down in this Section and at a lower level than that decided in accordance with Article 68b of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003.
The new Member States having applied the single area payment scheme may decide, when introducing the single payment scheme, to grant the payments referred to in the first subparagraph under the conditions laid down in this Section. In the case of the transitional fruit and vegetables payment, the new Member States not having applied Article 143bc of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 shall not apply Article 54 of this Regulation. Furthermore, in the case of the transitional fruit and vegetable payment, the new Member States shall take into account, where relevant, Article 128(3) of this Regulation.
2.On the basis of the choice made by each Member State, the Commission shall determine, in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 141(2), a ceiling for each of the direct payments referred to in Articles 52, 53 and 54.
This ceiling shall be equal to the component of each type of direct payment in the national ceilings referred to in Article 40, multiplied by the percentages of reduction applied by Member States in accordance with Articles 52, 53 and 54.
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