# 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, Article 50: General rules

Extent: E+N.I.

1. The relevant authority shall grant an annual payment to young farmers who are entitled to a payment under the farm sustainability payment scheme or the single area payment scheme referred to in Chapter 1 ("payment for young farmers").
2. For the purposes of this Chapter, 'young farmers', means natural persons:
(a) who are setting up for the first time an agricultural holding as head of the holding, or who have already set up such a holding during the five years preceding the first submission of an application under the farm sustainability payment scheme or the single area payment scheme referred to in Article 72(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013; and
(b) who are no more than 40 years of age in the year of submission of the application referred to in point (a).
2a. A farmer as defined in Article 4(1)(a) who has been rejected for the payment for young farmers in three or more scheme years shall no longer be eligible for the payment for young farmers.
A young farmer as defined in Article 50(2) who has been rejected for the payment for young farmers, in three or more scheme years shall no longer be eligible for a payment for young farmers. For the purpose of this sub paragraph, a young farmer shall include those who make an application for the payment for young farmers but are rejected due to not meeting the requirements of Article 50(2)(a).
This paragraph shall not apply in the 2021 scheme year.
3. Young farmers applying for the payment under this Article must also meet any objective and non-discriminatory requirements specified by the relevant authority prior to exit day regarding appropriate skills and/or training requirements.
4. Without prejudice to the application ... of reduction of payments in accordance with Article 11 ..., and to the application of Article 63 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013, the payment for young farmers shall be granted annually upon activation of payment entitlements by the farmer ....
5. The payment for young farmers shall be granted per farmer for a period of five years, starting from the first submission of the application for the payment for young farmers provided that that submission takes place within the five years following the setting up referred to in point (a) of paragraph 2. That period of five years shall also apply for farmers who have received payment for young farmers in respect of claims before claim year 2018.
By way of derogation from the second sentence of the first subparagraph, the relevant authority may decide that, for those young farmers who set up in accordance with point (a) of paragraph 2 in the period 2010-2013, the five-year period is to be reduced by the number of years which have elapsed between the setting up referred to in point (a) of paragraph 2 and the first submission of the application for the payment for young farmers.
Notwithstanding a change in the head of holding, a farmer as defined in Article 4(1)(a) shall not receive the payment for young farmers for a total period greater than 5 years.
6. Each year, in accordance with the legislation applying in the constituent nation, the relevant authority shall calculate the amount of the payment for young farmers by multiplying the number of entitlements the farmer has activated in accordance with Article 32(1) by a figure corresponding to:
(a) between 25 % and 50 % of the average value of the owned or leased-in payment entitlements held by the farmer; or
(b) between 25 % and 50 % of an amount calculated by dividing a fixed percentage of the relevant authority’s share of the national ceiling for the calendar year 2019 ... by the number of all eligible hectares declared in the constituent nation in 2015 in accordance with Article 33(1). The fixed percentage shall be equal to the percentage of the relevant authority’s share of the national ceiling which remained for the basic payment scheme in the constituent nation for 2015.
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8. By way of derogation from paragraph 6 of this Article, where the legislation applying in the constituent nation so provides, the relevant authority shall calculate each year the amount of the payment for young farmers by multiplying a figure corresponding to a value between 25 % and 50 % of the ... average payment per hectare in the constituent nation by the number of entitlements that the farmer has activated in accordance with Article 32(1) ....
The ... average payment per hectare in the constituent nation shall be calculated by dividing the relevant authority’s share of the national ceiling for the calendar year 2019 ... by the number of eligible hectares declared in the constituent nation in 2015 in accordance with Article 33(1) ....
9. The maximum limit applicable to the number of payment entitlements activated by the farmer or to the number of eligible hectares declared by the farmer is the single maximum limit set by the relevant authority prior to exit day. That limit shall not be below 25 or above 90. The relevant authority shall respect that limit when applying paragraphs 6 and 8.
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10A. Paragraphs 3, 6 and 9 only apply where the decisions to which they refer were taken and notified to the Commission by 31 January 2015.
11. In order to guarantee the protection of the rights of beneficiaries and to avoid discrimination among them, the appropriate authority may make regulations concerning the conditions under which a legal person may be considered to be eligible to receive the payment for young farmers.
12. This Article shall not apply after 2025 except where a young farmer is eligible to receive the payment in 2025.
13. A young farmer who received the payment in 2025 or earlier may continue to receive the payment until the end of the 5 year period specified in paragraph 5.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/1307/article/50 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1307/article-50
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