TITLE IU.K.GENERAL PROVISIONS

Article 1U.K.Scope

This Regulation lays down provisions supplementing certain non-essential elements of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 in relation to:

(a)

conditions for the partial or total refusal or withdrawal of the aid or support;

(b)

identifying the administrative penalty and determining the specific rate to be imposed;

(c)

identifying the cases in which the administrative penalty is not applied;

(d)

rules applicable to periods, dates and time limits where the final date for submission of applications or amendments is a public holiday, a Saturday or a Sunday;

(e)

specific definitions needed to ensure a harmonised implementation of the integrated system;

(f)

basic features and technical rules for the identification system for agricultural parcels and identification of beneficiaries;

(g)

[F1basic features, technical rules and quality requirements of the system for the identification and registration of payment entitlements;]

(h)

the basis for the calculation of aid, including rules on how to deal with certain cases in which eligible areas contain landscape features or trees;

(i)

additional rules for intermediates such as services, bodies and organisations, which are involved in the procedure for granting the aid or support;

(j)

[F2the maintenance of permanent pasture in relation to cross-compliance;]

(k)

a harmonised basis for the calculation of administrative penalties related to cross-compliance;

(l)

conditions for the application and calculation of the administrative penalties related to cross-compliance;

(m)

[F1an addition to the rules provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 in order to ensure a smooth transition from repealed rules to the new rules.]

[F3This Regulation does not apply to direct payments in England under Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 637/2008 and Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 in respect of any year falling after the end of 2023.]

Textual Amendments

F1Art. 1(g)(m) omitted (31.12.2020 for the purposes of common organisation of the markets and rural development measures) by virtue of The Common Agricultural Policy (Financing, Management and Monitoring Supplementary Provisions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/765), regs. 1, 6(1A) (as inserted by S.I. 2020/1445, regs. 1(2)(b), 9(3)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2Art. 1(j) omitted (W. in so far as it relates to domestic support for rural development) (26.3.2021) by virtue of The Agricultural Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/400), regs. 1(2), 3(2)