# Regulation (EU) 2019/288 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 February 2019 amending Regulations (EU) No 1305/2013 and (EU) No 1307/2013 as regards certain rules on direct payments and support for rural development in respect of the years 2019 and 2020, Article 1: Amendments to Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

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

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2019/288/article/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2019-288/article-1
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