{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-640/article-6",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-640/article-6.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2014/640",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 640/2014 of 11 March 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",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-640",
  "path": "article/6",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "6",
  "heading": "Quality assessment of the identification system for agricultural parcels",
  "text": "(1.) The relevant authority shall annually assess the quality of the identification system for agricultural parcels for the purpose of the basic payment scheme ... as referred to in Chapter 1 of Title III of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013. That assessment shall encompass two conformance classes.\nThe first conformance class shall cover the following elements in order to assess the quality of the identification system for agricultural parcels:\n(a)the correct quantification of the maximum eligible area;\n(b)the proportion and distribution of reference parcels where the maximum eligible area takes ineligible areas into account or where it does not take agricultural area into account;\n(c)the occurrence of reference parcels with critical defects.\nThe second conformance class shall cover the following quality elements in order to identify possible weaknesses in the identification system for agricultural parcels:\n(a)the categorisation of reference parcels where the maximum eligible area takes ineligible areas into account, where it does not take agricultural area into account or reveals a critical defect;\n(b)the ratio of declared claimed area in relation to the maximum eligible area inside the reference parcels;\n(c)the percentage of reference parcels which have been subject to change, accumulated over the years.\nWhere the results of the quality assessment reveal deficiencies in the system, the relevant authority shall take appropriate remedial action.\n(2.) The relevant authority shall perform the assessment referred to in the paragraph 1 on the basis of a sample of reference parcels to be selected by the constituent nations. They shall use data allowing to assess the current situation on the ground.\n(3.) An assessment report and, where appropriate, the remedial actions and the timetable for their implementation shall be drawn up by the relevant authority by 31 January following the calendar year in question.",
  "extent": "E+S",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 6 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(6) (as substituted by S.I. 2020/1445, regs. 1(2)(b), 9(7)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(1) substituted (31.1.2020 in so far as it relates to the Common Agricultural Policy direct payment schemes) by The Financing, Management and Monitoring of Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/90), regs. 1(2), 15(5)(a)(i)(aa)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(1) 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(5)(a)(i)(bb)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Word in Art. 6(1) substituted (S.) (1.1.2021) by The Common Agricultural Policy (Simplifications and Improvements) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/349), regs. 1, 9(3)(a)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(1) substituted (31.1.2020 in so far as it relates to the Common Agricultural Policy direct payment schemes) by The Financing, Management and Monitoring of Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/90), regs. 1(2), 15(5)(a)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F6",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(2) substituted (31.1.2020 in so far as it relates to the Common Agricultural Policy direct payment schemes) by The Financing, Management and Monitoring of Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/90), regs. 1(2), 15(5)(b)(i)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F7",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(2) substituted (31.1.2020 in so far as it relates to the Common Agricultural Policy direct payment schemes) by The Financing, Management and Monitoring of Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/90), regs. 1(2), 15(5)(b)(ii)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F8",
      "text": "Art. 6(3) substituted (31.1.2020 in so far as it relates to the Common Agricultural Policy direct payment schemes) by The Financing, Management and Monitoring of Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/90), regs. 1(2), 15(5)(c)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F9",
      "text": "Words in Art. 6(3) substituted (S.) (1.1.2021) by The Common Agricultural Policy (Simplifications and Improvements) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/349), regs. 1, 9(3)(b); and in so far as it relates to direct payments (S.) (1.1.2021) by The Direct Payments to Farmers (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2020 (S.S.I. 2020/460), regs. 1(2), 6(2); and in so far as it relates to direct payments (E.) (1.1.2021) by The Direct Payments to Farmers (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1513), regs. 1(2), 8(3); and in so far as it relates to the direct payment schemes (N.I.) (23.2.2021) by The Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/40), regs. 1(1), 7(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision applies to England and Scotland only; separate versions have been created for Wales and Northern Ireland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2025/33",
      "affecting_title": "The Farm Sustainability (Transitional Provisions) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025"
    }
  ],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2014/640/article/6",
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  },
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}