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Article 1 ScopeF1

United Kingdom

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This Regulation establishes:

  1. (a)

    common rules on payments granted directly to farmers under the support schemes listed in Annex I ("direct payments");

  2. (b)

    specific rules concerning:

    1. (i)

      a F2basic payment for farmers ("the basic payment scheme") the farm sustainability payment scheme F3...;

    2. (ii)

      F4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    3. (iii)

      F5a voluntary redistributive payment;

    4. (iv)

      F6a payment for farmers observing agricultural practices beneficial for the climate and the environment;

    5. (v)

      F7. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    6. (vi)

      a payment for young farmers commencing their agricultural activity;

    7. (vii)

      F8a voluntary coupled support scheme;

    8. (viii)

      F9. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    9. (ix)

      F10. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

    10. (x)

      F11. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Regulation revoked (E.) (1.1.2024) by The Agriculture (Delinked Payments and Consequential Provisions) (England) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1430), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 3 para. 1 Table 1 (with Sch. 3 Pt. 2)

F2

Words in Art. 1(b)(i) substituted (N.I.) (1.1.2026 in relation to the 2026 scheme year and subsequent years) by virtue of The Farm Sustainability (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/33), Sch. 2 para. 2(5)

F3

Words in Art. 1(b)(i) omitted (31.1.2020) by virtue of The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 3(1)(a)

F4

Art. 1(b)(ii) omitted (31.1.2020) by virtue of The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 3(1)(b)

F5

Art. 1(b)(iii) omitted (E.) (1.1.2021) by virtue of The Direct Payments to Farmers (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1513), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(a); and Art. 1(b)(iii) omitted (S.) (1.1.2021) by virtue of The Direct Payments to Farmers (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/460), regs. 1(2), 2(2)

F6

Art. 1(b)(iv) omitted (W.) (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), 7(2); Art. 1(b)(iv) omitted (E.) (1.1.2021 in relation to an application for direct payments made in 2021 or in any subsequent year) by virtue of The Direct Payments to Farmers and Cross-Compliance (Simplifications) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1387), regs. 1(1), 5(2) (with reg. 1(2)); and Art. 1(b)(iv) omitted (N.I.) (25.2.2021) by virtue of The Direct Payments to Farmers (Simplifications) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/42), regs. 1(1), 4(2)

F7

Art. 1(b)(v) omitted (31.1.2020) by virtue of The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 3(1)(b)

F8

Art. 1(b)(vii) omitted (E.) (1.1.2021) by virtue of The Direct Payments to Farmers (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1513), regs. 1(2), 2(2)(b)

F9

Art. 1(b)(viii) omitted (31.1.2020) by virtue of The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 3(1)(b)

F10

Art. 1(b)(ix) omitted (31.1.2020) by virtue of The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 3(1)(b)

F11

Art. 1(b)(x) omitted (31.1.2020) by virtue of The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 3(1)(b)