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Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 (repealed)Show full title

Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 of 29 September 2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers and amending Regulations (EEC) No 2019/93, (EC) No 1452/2001, (EC) No 1453/2001, (EC) No 1454/2001, (EC) 1868/94, (EC) No 1251/1999, (EC) No 1254/1999, (EC) No 1673/2000, (EEC) No 2358/71 and (EC) No 2529/2001 (repealed)

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Article 2U.K.Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:

(a)

‘farmer’ means a natural or legal person, or a group of natural or legal persons, whatever legal status is granted to the group and its members by national law, whose holding is situated within Community territory, as referred to in Article 299 of the Treaty, and who exercises an agricultural activity,

(b)

‘holding’ means all the production units managed by a farmer situated within the territory of the same Member State,

(c)

‘agricultural activity’ means the production, rearing or growing of agricultural products including harvesting, milking, breeding animals and keeping animals for farming purposes, or maintaining the land in good agricultural and environmental condition as established under Article 5,

(d)

‘direct payment’ means a payment granted directly to farmers under an income support scheme listed in Annex I,

(e)

‘payments in a given calendar year’ or ‘payments in the reference period’ means the payments granted or to be granted in respect of the year/years concerned, including all payments in respect of other periods starting in that calendar year/years,

(f)

‘agricultural products’ means the products listed in Annex I of the Treaty, including cotton, but with the exception of fishery products[F1,]

(g)

[F2 new Member States means Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Romania, Slovenia and Slovakia.]

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