{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1307/article-51",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1307/article-51.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2013/1307",
  "legislation_title": "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",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1307",
  "path": "article/51",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "51",
  "heading": "Financial provisions",
  "text": "1. In order to finance the payment for young farmers, the relevant authority shall use a percentage, which shall not be higher than 2% of the total ceiling.\nWhere the relevant authority decides by 15 October in a calendar year to revise the percentage, that revised percentage will have effect for the following calendar year.\n2. Without prejudice to the maximum of 2 % laid down in paragraph 1 of this Article, where the total amount of the payment for young farmers applied for in a constituent nation in a particular year exceeds the amount calculated in accordance with paragraph 1, and where that amount is lower than 2% of the total ceiling, the relevant authority shall finance the difference by applying point (f) of the first subparagraph of Article 30(7) in the relevant year, by applying a linear reduction to all payments to be granted to all farmers in accordance with Article 32 , or by both means....\n3. Where the total amount of the payment for young farmers applied for in a constituent nation in a particular year exceeds the amount calculated in accordance with paragraph 1, and where that amount is equal to 2% of the total ceiling, the relevant authority shall apply a linear reduction to the amounts to be paid pursuant to Article 50 in order to comply with that ceiling.\n4. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "extent": "E+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Art. 51(1) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 5(22)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 51(1) substituted (N.I.) (23.2.2021) by The Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/40), regs. 1(1), 2(18)(a)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 51(1) substituted (N.I.) (23.2.2021) by The Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/40), regs. 1(1), 2(18)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 51(2) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 5(22)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Word in Art. 51(2) substituted (N.I.) (23.2.2021) by The Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/40), regs. 1(1), 2(18)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 51(2) inserted (8.6.2020) by The Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/576), regs. 1, 3(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 51(2) omitted (31.1.2020) by virtue of The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 5(22)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Art. 51(3) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 5(22)(c)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in Art. 51(3) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 5(22)(c)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in Art. 51(3) substituted (N.I.) (23.2.2021) by The Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/40), regs. 1(1), 2(18)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Art. 51(4) omitted (31.1.2020) by virtue of The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 5(22)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision applies to England and Northern Ireland only; separate versions have been created for Wales only and Scotland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/1307/article/51",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:07.272502+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."
}