1.As regards permanent grassland with scattered ineligible features, such as landscape features and trees, [F2the relevant authority] may decide to apply a pro-rata system to determine the eligible area within the reference parcel.
The pro-rata system referred to in the first subparagraph shall consist of different categories of homogeneous land cover types for which a fixed reduction coefficient based on the percentage of ineligible area is applied. The category representing the lowest percentage of ineligible area shall not exceed 10 % of ineligible area and no reduction coefficient shall apply to that category.
2.Any landscape features subject to the requirements and standards listed in Annex II to Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 which form part of the total area of an agricultural parcel shall be considered part of the eligible area.
3.This Article shall not apply to permanent grassland containing fruit trees which yield repeated harvests.]
Textual Amendments
F1Art. 10 omitted (W. insofar as relates to direct payments) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Direct Payments to Farmers and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1556), regs. 1(2)(a), 3(7)
F2Words in Art. 10(1) substituted (31.1.2020 in so far as it relates to the Common Agricultural Policy direct payment schemes) by The Financing, Management and Monitoring of Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/90), regs. 1(2), 15(8); and words in Art. 10(1) substituted (31.12.2020 for the purposes of common organisation of the markets and rural development measures) by The Common Agricultural Policy (Financing, Management and Monitoring Supplementary Provisions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/765), regs. 1, 6(9) (as amended by S.I. 2020/1445, regs. 1(2)(b), 9(9)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)