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Article 17 General principles

United Kingdom

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F1(1.)

For the purposes of this Section, the following crop groups shall be distinguished as appropriate:

  1. (a)

    F2areas declared for the purpose of activation of payment entitlements under the F3basic payment scheme farm sustainability transition payment scheme F4...;

  2. (b)

    F5areas giving right to the re-distributive payment;

  3. (c)

    areas giving right to payments under the young farmers scheme;

  4. (d)

    F6areas declared per voluntary coupled support measures;

  5. (e)

    a group for each of the areas declared for the purpose of any other area-related F7aid scheme or support measure, for which a different rate of aid or support is applicable;

  6. (f)

    areas declared under the heading ‘other uses’.

For the purposes of point (e) of the first subparagraph, in respect of payments for areas facing natural or other specific constraints as referred to in Article 31 of Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013, where degressive aid amounts are used, the average of those amounts in relation to the respective areas declared shall be taken into account.

(F82.)

Where the same area serves as the basis for F9a payment claim under more than one area-related F10... support measure, that area shall be taken into account separately for each of those F11... support measures.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Substituted by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1393 of 4 May 2016 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) No 640/2014 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the integrated administration and control system and conditions for refusal or withdrawal of payments and administrative penalties applicable to direct payments, rural development support and cross-compliance.

F2

Art. 17(1)(a)-(d) omitted (31.12.2020 for the purposes of common organisation of the markets and rural development measures) by virtue of The Common Agricultural Policy (Financing, Management and Monitoring Supplementary Provisions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/765), regs. 1, 6(14)(a)(i) (as substituted by S.I. 2020/1445, regs. 1(2)(b), 9(13)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3

Words in Art. 17(1)(a) 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. 4(3)(c)

F4

Words in Art. 17(1)(a) omitted (31.1.2020 in so far as it relates to the Common Agricultural Policy direct payment schemes) by virtue of The Financing, Management and Monitoring of Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/90), regs. 1(2), 15(14)(a)

F5

Art. 17(1)(b) omitted in so far as it relates to direct payments (E.) (1.1.2021) by virtue of The Direct Payments to Farmers (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1513), regs. 1(2), 8(5); and omitted in so far as it relates to direct payments (S.) (1.1.2021) by virtue of The Direct Payments to Farmers (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/460), regs. 1(2), 6(3)

F6

Art. 17(1)(d) omitted in so far as it relates to direct payments (E.) (1.1.2021) by virtue of The Direct Payments to Farmers (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1513), regs. 1(2), 8(5)

F7

Words in Art. 17(1)(e) omitted (31.12.2020 for the purposes of common organisation of the markets and rural development measures) by virtue of The Common Agricultural Policy (Financing, Management and Monitoring Supplementary Provisions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/765), regs. 1, 6(14)(a)(ii) (as substituted by S.I. 2020/1445, regs. 1(2)(b), 9(13)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F8

Art. 17(2) omitted (31.1.2020 in so far as it relates to the Common Agricultural Policy direct payment schemes) by virtue of The Financing, Management and Monitoring of Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/90), regs. 1(2), 15(14)(b)

F9

Word in Art. 17(2) substituted (31.12.2020 for the purposes of common organisation of the markets and rural development measures) by The Common Agricultural Policy (Financing, Management and Monitoring Supplementary Provisions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/765), regs. 1, 6(14)(b)(i) (as substituted by S.I. 2020/1445, regs. 1(2)(b), 9(13)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F10

Words in Art. 17(2) omitted (31.12.2020 for the purposes of common organisation of the markets and rural development measures) by virtue of The Common Agricultural Policy (Financing, Management and Monitoring Supplementary Provisions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/765), regs. 1, 6(14)(b)(ii) (as substituted by S.I. 2020/1445, regs. 1(2)(b), 9(13)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F11

Words in Art. 17(2) omitted (31.12.2020 for the purposes of common organisation of the markets and rural development measures) by virtue of The Common Agricultural Policy (Financing, Management and Monitoring Supplementary Provisions) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/765), regs. 1, 6(14)(b)(ii) (as substituted by S.I. 2020/1445, regs. 1(2)(b), 9(13)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Notes on Section 2

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Title 2 Ch. 4 Section 2 title omitted in so far as it relates to direct payments (E.) (1.1.2021) by virtue of The Direct Payments to Farmers and Cross-Compliance (Simplifications) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1387), regs. 1(1), 7(7)(a) (with reg. 1(2)); and 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), 6(6)(a)