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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-639/article-26",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-639/article-26.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2014/639",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 639/2014 of 11 March 2014 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy and amending Annex X to that Regulation",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-639",
  "path": "article/26",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "26",
  "heading": "Reversion to the national or regional reserve due to retention on transfer of payment entitlements",
  "text": "Where the relevant authority uses the option provided for in Article 34(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013, it may decide, in accordance with objective criteria and in such a way as to ensure equal treatment between farmers and to avoid market and competition distortion, to revert to the national or regional reserve up to 30 % of the annual unit values of each payment entitlement transferred without the corresponding eligible hectares within the meaning of Article 32(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013, or the equivalent amount expressed in number of payment entitlements.\nBy way of derogation from the first subparagraph, the relevant authority may provide for a reversion up to 50 % of the annual unit value of each payment entitlement or the equivalent amount expressed in number of payment entitlements as referred to in the first subparagraph during the first three years of application of the basic payment schemefarm sustainability transition payment scheme.\nIn this subsection references to “national or regional reserve” are to be construed in accordance with the definitions contained in Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013.",
  "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": "Art. 26 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), 8(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 26 substituted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 11(6)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Words in Art. 26 substituted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 11(6)(b)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 26 substituted (N.I.) (24.2.2025 in relation to the 2025 scheme) by The Farm Sustainability (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025 (S.R. 2025/33), reg. 1, Sch. 2 para. 3(3)(d)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 26 inserted (31.1.2020) by The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 11(6)(c)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2025/33",
      "affecting_title": "The Farm Sustainability (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025"
    },
    {
      "type": "omitted",
      "affecting": "wsi/2025/1282",
      "affecting_title": "The Basic Payment Scheme (Tapering, Payment Entitlements and Closure) (Wales) Regulations 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2014/639/article/26",
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  },
  "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."
}