Article 53 Conditions for granting the supportF1E1

F2The eligibility criteria for coupled support measures means the criteria defined by the relevant authority with the framework set out in Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 and the conditions laid down in this Regulation.

Areas and yields and number of animals referred to in Article 52(6) of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 shall be F3jointly agreed by the relevant authorities for each constituent nation at regional or sector level. They shall reflect the maximum yields, area cultivated or number of animals reached in the targeted region or sector in at least one year in the period of five years preceding the year of the decision referred to in Article 53(1) of that Regulation.

F4The annual payment shall be expressed as the per unit amount of support. It may be either one of the following amounts, or, when the area or the number of animals eligible for the support does not exceed the area or the number of animals fixed as referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph, an amount between them:

1. (a)

   the ratio between the amount fixed for the financing of the measure as notified according to point (3)(i) of Annex I to this Regulation F5as it had effect immediately before exit day and the area or the number of animals eligible for the support in the year in question;

2. (b)

   the ratio between the amount fixed for the financing of the measure as notified according to point (3)(i) of Annex I to this Regulation F6as it had effect immediately before exit day and the area or the number of animals fixed as referred to in the first subparagraph of this paragraph.

F7Without prejudice to Article 52(6) of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013, for the per unit amount of support referred to in the second subparagraph of this paragraph, F8the relevant authority may decide, prior to exit day, to apply modulated per unit amounts in respect of certain categories of farmers or at farm level in order to take into account economies of scale resulting from the size of the production structures in the targeted specific type of farming or specific agricultural sector, or, if the measure targets a region or an entire sector, in the region or sector concerned. F9...

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Where the coupled support measure concerns bovine animals and/or sheep and goats, F11... the requirements to identify and register animals provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council^f1 or Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004^f2 respectively F12shall apply.

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F14By 15 September 2015, Member States shall notify the Commission of the dates referred to in the second subparagraph.

F15The relevant authority may not grant area-related coupled support for areas that are not eligible areas within the meaning of Article 32(2), (3) and (4) of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013. F16...