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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2007-378/article-1",
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  "legislation": "eur/2007/378",
  "legislation_title": "Council Regulation (EC) No 378/2007 of 27 March 2007 laying down rules for voluntary modulation of direct payments provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers, and amending Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005",
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  "path": "article/1",
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  "number": "1",
  "heading": null,
  "text": "1. Without prejudice to Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, Member States:\n(a) where at the entry into force of this Regulation the system of additional reductions of direct payments referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1655/2004 is applied; or\n(b) which were granted a derogation by virtue of Article 70(4a) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 from the requirement to co-finance Community support,\nmay apply a reduction, hereinafter referred to as ‘voluntary modulation’, to all the amounts of direct payments within the meaning of Article 2(d) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 to be granted in their territory in a given calendar year within the meaning of Article 2(e) of that Regulation, during the period 2007 to 2012.\n2. The net amounts resulting from the application of voluntary modulation shall be available in the Member State where they were generated as Community support for measures under rural development programming financed by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005.\n3. Reductions under voluntary modulation shall be made on the same basis of calculation as that applicable to modulation pursuant to Article 7 of 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 .\n4. Each Member State shall apply a single rate of voluntary modulation per calendar year. The rate may be subject to progressive modifications according to pre-established steps. The maximum rate of reduction shall be 20 %.\n5. The modulation rates applicable to a farmer resulting from the application of Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 reduced by 5 percentage points shall be deducted from the rate of voluntary modulation applied by Member States pursuant to paragraph 4 of this Article. Both the percentage to be deducted and the final voluntary modulation rate shall be equal to or higher than 0.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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      "type": "F",
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      "text": "Substituted by 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."
    },
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      "type": "F",
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      "text": "Inserted by 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."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 30, 31.1.2009, p. 16 ."
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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