Article 1 Amendments to Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013

Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 is amended as follows:

1. (1)

   in Article 31(5), the following subparagraph is inserted after the first subparagraph:

   ‘By way of derogation from the first subparagraph, where degressive payments start only in the year 2019, those payments shall start at no more than 80 % of the average payment fixed in the 2014-2020 programming period. The payment level shall be established in such a way that the end-level in 2020 is half of the starting level.’;

2. (2)

   in Article 51(1), the following subparagraph is inserted after the first subparagraph:

   ‘The EAFRD may finance activities preparing for the implementation of the CAP in the subsequent programming period.’.