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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-basic-payment-and-support-schemes-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-9",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-basic-payment-and-support-schemes-wales-regulations-2015/regulation-9.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2015/1252",
  "legislation_title": "The Common Agricultural Policy Basic Payment and Support Schemes (Wales) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-basic-payment-and-support-schemes-wales-regulations-2015",
  "path": "regulation/9",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "9",
  "heading": "Active farmers",
  "text": "(1) For the purposes of Article 9(2) sub-paragraph 3(b) of the Direct Payments Regulation, a farmer's agricultural activities are not insignificant if that farmer's total holding size is greater than or equal to 21 hectares, in accordance with the third sub-paragraph of Article 13(1) of the Direct Payments Delegated Regulation.\n(2) For the purposes of Article 9(2) sub-paragraph 3(c) of the Direct Payments Regulation, a farmer's principal business or company objects consist of exercising an agricultural activity where that farmer provides the Welsh Ministers with evidence that at least 40% of the total receipts obtained by the business in the most recent fiscal year for which evidence is available were obtained from agricultural activities, in accordance with the third sub-paragraph of Article 13(3) of the Direct Payments Delegated Regulation.\n(3) For the purposes of Article 9(4) of the Direct Payments Regulation, the maximum amount is EUR 5,000.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Reg. 9 omitted for specified purposes (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), 12(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2015/1252/regulation/9",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T23:34:50.653104+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}