Article 6U.K.Reduction or exclusion from payments
[1. Where the statutory management requirements or good agricultural and environmental conditions are not complied with at any time in a given calendar year (hereinafter ‘ the calendar year concerned ’ ), and the non-compliance in question is the result of an act or omission directly attributable to the farmer who submitted the aid application in the calendar year concerned, the total amount of direct payments to be granted, after application of Articles 10 and 11 to that farmer, shall be reduced or cancelled in accordance with the detailed rules laid down under Article 7.
The first subparagraph shall also apply where, the non-compliance in question is the result of an act or omission directly attributable to the person to whom or from whom the agricultural land was transferred.
For the purposes of application of the first and second subparagraphs for the year 2008, the calendar year shall correspond to the period of 1 April to 31 December 2008 .
For the purpose of this paragraph ‘ transfer ’ means any type of transaction whereby the agricultural land ceases to be at the disposal of the transferor.]
2.The reductions or exclusions referred to in paragraph 1 shall only apply if the non-compliance relates to:
(a)an agricultural activity, or
(b)an agricultural land of the holding, including the parcels on set aside.
[3. Notwithstanding paragraph 1 and in accordance with the conditions laid down in the detailed rules referred to in Article 7(1), Member States may decide not to apply a reduction or exclusion amounting to EUR 100 or less per farmer and per calendar year.
Where a Member State decides to make use of the option provided for in the first subparagraph, in the following year the competent authority shall take the actions required to ensure that the farmer remedies the findings of non-compliance concerned. The finding and the remedial action to be taken shall be notified to the farmer.]