{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-809/article-31a",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-809/article-31a.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2014/809",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 809/2014 of 17 July 2014 laying down rules for the application of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the integrated administration and control system, rural development measures and cross compliance",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2014-809",
  "path": "article/31a",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "31a",
  "heading": "Control rate for the greening payment in claim year 2020",
  "text": "1. By way of derogation from Article 31, the control sample for on-the-spot checks for the greening payment in respect of claim year 2020 is 3% of all beneficiaries required to observe the agricultural practices beneficial for the climate and the environment.\n2. The control rate in paragraph 1 must include at least 3% of all beneficiaries having areas covered with permanent grasslands that are environmentally sensitive in areas covered by Council Directive 92/43/EEC or Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council and further sensitive areas referred to in Article 45(1) of EUR 2013/1307.\n3. In applying the control rate set out in paragraph 1, priority must be given to areas other than those of permanent grassland and/or permanent crops.",
  "extent": "E+W",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Art. 31a inserted (E.) (30.6.2020) by The Direct Payments to Farmers (Inspections) (Coronavirus) (England) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/575), regs. 1(1), 2(5)"
    },
    {
      "type": "E",
      "label": "E1",
      "text": "This version of this provision applies to England only; a separate version has been created for Scotland only and a separate version has been created for Northern Ireland only"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "nisr/2025/165",
      "affecting_title": "The Farm Sustainability Standards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025"
    }
  ],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2014/809/article/31a",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:47:25.658900+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."
}