# Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/1383 of 28 May 2015 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) No 639/2014 as regards the eligibility conditions in relation to the identification and registration requirements for animals for coupled support under Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, Introduction: Introductory text

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Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/1383
of 28 May 2015
amending Delegated Regulation (EU) No 639/2014 as regards the eligibility conditions in relation to the identification and registration requirements for animals for coupled support under Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 637/2008 and Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, and in particular Article 52(9)(a) thereof,
Whereas:
(1)
Pursuant to Article 52 of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 Member States may grant coupled support to farmers under the conditions laid down in Chapter 1 of Title IV of that Regulation and in a delegated act to be adopted by the Commission.
(2)
In accordance with Article 53(4) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 639/2014, where the coupled support measure concerns bovine animals and/or sheep and goats, Member States have to define as an eligibility condition for the support, the requirements to identify and register animals provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council or Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 respectively. As a consequence, an animal not complying with those identification and registration requirements once will remain ineligible for voluntary coupled support for its whole life, regardless the correction of the failure afterwards.
(3)
In order to remedy such situations, Article 117 of Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 provided that in the case of beef and veal payments an animal was to be considered as eligible if the information required was made available to the competent authority on the first day of the retention period of the animal.
(4)
Due to the fact that beef and veal payments have been abolished and given that the retention period is no longer an eligibility condition for voluntary coupled support, Article 53(4) of Delegated Regulation (EU) No 639/2014 does not contain a similar provision.
(5)
However, in order to ensure proportionality and without prejudice to other applicable eligibility conditions fixed by the Member State, bovine animals should be considered as eligible for support as long as the identification and registration requirements are complied with by a certain date. For the sake of consistency, that rule should also apply in the case of sheep and goats.
(6)
This Regulation should apply with respect to livestock aid applications relating to calendar year 2015 and subsequent years,
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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2015/1383/introduction (the official version)
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