{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1307/article-52",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1307/article-52.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/52",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "52",
  "heading": "General rules",
  "text": "1. The relevant authority may grant coupled support to farmers under the conditions laid down in this Chapter (in this Chapter referred to as \"coupled support\").\n2. Coupled support may be granted to the following sectors and productions: cereals, oilseeds, protein crops, grain legumes, flax, hemp, rice, nuts, starch potato, milk and milk products, seeds, sheepmeat and goatmeat, beef and veal, olive oil, silkworms, dried fodder, hops, sugar beet, cane and chicory, fruit and vegetables and short rotation coppice.\n3. Coupled support may only be granted to those sectors or to those regions of a constituent nation where specific types of farming or specific agricultural sectors that are particularly important for economic, social or environmental reasons undergo certain difficulties.\n4. By way of derogation from paragraph 3, coupled support may also be granted to farmers who:\n(a) on 31 December 2014, have payment entitlements granted in accordance with Section 2 of Chapter 3 of Title III and Article 71m of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and in accordance with Article 60 and the fourth paragraph of Article 65 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009; and\n(b) have at their disposal no eligible hectares for the activation of payment entitlements under the basic payment schemefarm sustainability payment scheme as referred to in Chapter 1 of Title III of this Regulation.\n5. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n6. Coupled support is a production-limiting scheme that shall take the form of an annual payment based on fixed areas and yields or on a fixed number of animals and shall respect financial ceilings to be jointly agreed by the relevant authorities for each constituent nation.to be determined by the relevant authority.\n7. In the case of a legal person, or a group of natural or legal persons, the relevant authority may apply the limits referred to in paragraph 6 at the level of the members of those legal persons or groups where national law provides for the individual members to assume rights and obligations comparable to those of individual farmers who have the status of a head of holding, in particular as regards their economic, social and tax status, provided that they have contributed to strengthening the agricultural structures of the legal persons or groups concerned.\n8. Any coupled support granted under this Article shall be consistent with measures provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 and Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and any other measures specified for the purposes of this paragraph by virtue of paragraph 9.\n9. In order to ensure efficient and targeted use of agricultural support and to avoid double funding under other similar support instruments, the Secretary of State may make regulations laying down:\n(a) the conditions for granting coupled support;\n(b) rules on consistency with other measures provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 and Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and any other measures specified for the purposes of this paragraph by virtue of paragraph 9 and on the cumulation of support.\n(9.) In order to ensure efficient and targeted use of agricultural support and to avoid double funding under other similar support instruments, DAERA may make regulations laying down the conditions for granting coupled support.\n10. The Secretary of StateDAERA may make regulations supplementing this Regulation as regards measures in order to avoid beneficiaries of voluntary coupled support suffering from structural market imbalances in a sector. Those regulations may allow for support to continue to be paid until 2020 on the basis of the production units for which voluntary coupled support was granted in a past reference period.\n11. The Secretary of State may not make regulations under paragraph 9 or 10 without the consent of each of the relevant authorities for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.\nWhere the relevant authority for Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland requests that the Secretary of State makes regulations under paragraph 9 or 10, the Secretary of State must have regard to that request.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+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": "Words in Art. 52(1) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 6(1)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 52(3) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 6(1)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 52(4)(b) substituted (N.I.) (1.1.2026 in relation to the 2026 scheme year and subsequent years) by The Farm Sustainability (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/33), Sch. 2 para. 2(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Deleted by Regulation (EU) 2017/2393 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2017 amending Regulations (EU) No 1305/2013 on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), (EU) No 1306/2013 on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy, (EU) No 1307/2013 establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy, (EU) No 1308/2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and (EU) No 652/2014 laying down provisions for the management of expenditure relating to the food chain, animal health and animal welfare, and relating to plant health and plant reproductive material."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Substituted by Regulation (EU) 2017/2393 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2017 amending Regulations (EU) No 1305/2013 on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), (EU) No 1306/2013 on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy, (EU) No 1307/2013 establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy, (EU) No 1308/2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and (EU) No 652/2014 laying down provisions for the management of expenditure relating to the food chain, animal health and animal welfare, and relating to plant health and plant reproductive material."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 52(6) substituted (N.I.) (25.2.2021) by The Direct Payments to Farmers (Simplifications) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/42), regs. 1(1), 19(2)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Words in Art. 52(6) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 6(1)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Art. 52(7) 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), 19(2)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F10",
      "text": "Words in Art. 52(7) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 6(1)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F11",
      "text": "Words in Art. 52(8) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 6(1)(e)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F12",
      "text": "Art. 52(9) substituted (N.I.) (25.2.2021) by The Direct Payments to Farmers (Simplifications) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/42), reg. 19(2)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F13",
      "text": "Words in Art. 52(9) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 6(1)(f)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F14",
      "text": "Words in Art. 52(9) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 6(1)(f)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F15",
      "text": "Words in Art. 52(9) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 6(1)(f)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F16",
      "text": "Inserted by Regulation (EU) 2017/2393 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2017 amending Regulations (EU) No 1305/2013 on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), (EU) No 1306/2013 on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy, (EU) No 1307/2013 establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy, (EU) No 1308/2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and (EU) No 652/2014 laying down provisions for the management of expenditure relating to the food chain, animal health and animal welfare, and relating to plant health and plant reproductive material."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F17",
      "text": "Words in Art. 52(10) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 6(1)(g)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F18",
      "text": "Word in Art. 52(10) substituted (N.I.) (25.2.2021) by The Direct Payments to Farmers (Simplifications) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/42), regs. 1(1), 19(2)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F19",
      "text": "Word in Art. 52(10) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 6(1)(g)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F20",
      "text": "Words in Art. 52(10) substituted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 6(1)(g)(iii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F21",
      "text": "Art. 52(11) inserted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 6(1)(h)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F22",
      "text": "Art. 52(11) 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), 19(2)(e)"
    }
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    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:07.272502+00:00"
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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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