Commission Regulation (EU) No 65/2011
of 27 January 2011
laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005, as regards the implementation of control procedures as well as cross-compliance in respect of rural development support measures (repealed)

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Regulation repealed (with savings) by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 640/2014 of 11 March 2014 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and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, Art. 43; and Regulation (so far as still in force) modified (31.12.2020) by The Rural Development (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/764), regs. 1, 16; 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1); and Arts. 24, 25, 29 (so far as still in force) amended (E.) (28.7.2022) by The Rural Development (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/765), regs. 1(1), 6; and Arts. 4, 5, 12, 16, 18, 25, 26, 30 (so far as still in force) further amended (E.) (15.12.2022) by The Rural Development (Amendment) (No. 2) (England) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/1225), regs. 1(1), 4; and Arts. 1, 9, 10, 19-21 (so far as still in force) further amended (E.) (1.1.2024) by The Agriculture (Removal of Cross-Compliance and Miscellaneous Revocations and Amendments, etc.) (England) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/816), regs. 1(1), Sch. Pt. 1 para. 1 Table 2 (with Sch. Pt. 2 para. 2)

PART I SCOPE AND GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1 Scope
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Article 2 Definitions
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Article 3 Applications for support, payment claims and other declarations
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Article 4 General principles of control
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Article 5 Recovery of undue payments
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PART II ADMINISTRATION AND CONTROL RULES

TITLE I RURAL DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT FOR CERTAIN MEASURES UNDER AXIS 2 AND AXIS 4

CHAPTER I General provisions

Article 6 Scope and definitions
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Article 7 Applicable rules
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Article 8 Payment claims
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Article 9 Payments
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CHAPTER II Control, reductions and exclusions

Article 10 General principles
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Section I Compliance with the eligibility criteria, commitments and linked obligations

Subsection I Control

Article 11 Administrative checks
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Article 12 On-the-spot checks
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Article 13 Control report
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Article 14 General principles concerning on-the-spot checks
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Article 15 Elements of the on-the-spot checks and determination of areas
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Subsection II Reductions and exclusions

Article 16 Reductions and exclusions in relation to the size of area
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Article 17 Reductions and exclusions in relation to the number of animals
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Article 18 Reductions and exclusions in the case of non-compliance with other eligibility criteria, commitments and linked obligations
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Section II Cross-compliance

Subsection I Control

Article 19 General rules
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Article 20 On-the-spot checks
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Subsection II Reductions and exclusions

Article 21 Reductions and exclusions
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Section III Order of reductions

Article 22 Order of reductions
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TITLE II RURAL DEVELOPMENT SUPPORT UNDER AXIS 1 AND AXIS 3 AND CERTAIN MEASURES UNDER AXIS 2 AND AXIS 4

CHAPTER I Introductory provisions

Article 23 Scope
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CHAPTER II Control, reductions and exclusions

Section I Control

Subsection I General provisions

Article 24 Administrative checks
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Article 25 On-the-spot checks
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Article 26 Content of on-the-spot checks
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Article 27 Control report
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Subsection II Supplementary control provisions for specific measures

Article 28 Young farmers
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Article 28a Early retirement
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Article 28b Support for food quality schemes recognised by Member States
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Article 28c Semi-subsistence farming
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Article 28d Producer groups
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Article 28e Holdings undergoing restructuring
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Article 28f Leader
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Article 28g Subsidies on interest rates
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Article 28h Other financial engineering actions
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Subsection III Ex-post checks

Article 29 Ex-post checks
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Section II Reductions and exclusions

Article 30 Reductions and exclusions
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PART III FINAL PROVISIONS

Article 31 Reporting
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Article 32 Control by the Commission
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Article 33 Reporting of checks to the paying agencies
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Article 34 Repeal
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Article 35 Entry into force
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ANNEX I Indicative description of information requirements for a sufficient audit trail
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Regulation: power to modify conferred (E.) (11.11.2020 for specified purposes, 11.1.2021 in so far as not already in force) by Agriculture Act 2020 (c. 21), ss. 14, 57(1)(b)(c)(6)
Regulation: power to modify conferred (W.) (11.11.2020 for specified purposes, 11.1.2021 in so far as not already in force) by Agriculture Act 2020 (c. 21), s. 57(1)(b)(c)(6), Sch. 5 para. 4 (with s. 47)