{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-641/article-1",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-641/article-1.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2014/641",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 641/2014 of 16 June 2014 laying down rules for the application of 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",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-641",
  "path": "article/1",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "1",
  "heading": "Scope",
  "text": "This Regulation lays down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 in relation to:\n(a)general provisions on direct payments;\n(b)the basic payment scheme farm sustainability payment scheme;\n(c)the payment for farmers observing agricultural practices beneficial for the climate and the environment;\n(d)voluntary coupled support;\n(e). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .\n(f). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .",
  "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. 1(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. 5(4)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Art. 1(c) 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), 9(2); (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), 8(2) (with reg. 1(2)); and (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), 7(2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Art. 1(d) omitted (E.) (1.1.2021) by virtue of The Direct Payments to Farmers (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1513), regs. 1(2), 4"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F5",
      "text": "Art. 1(e)(f) omitted (31.1.2020) by virtue of The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/91), regs. 1(2), 20(1)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2014/641/article/1",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:47:34.062095+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}