Article 116U.K.Individual limits
1.On 1 January 2005 the individual ceiling per farmer referred to in Article 113(3), shall be equal to the number of premium rights which he held on 31 December 2004 in accordance with the relevant Community rules.
[F12. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the sum of premium rights on their territory does not exceed the national ceilings set out in paragraph 4 and that the national reserves referred to in Article 118 may be maintained.
Except in cases where Article 143b is applied, the new Member States shall allocate individual ceilings to producers and shall set up the national reserves from the overall number of rights to the premium reserved for each of these new Member States as set out in paragraph 4, no later than one year after the date of accession.
After the end of the period of application of the single area payment scheme according to Article 143b and where Article 67 is applied, the allocation of the individual ceilings to producers and the setting up of the national reserve referred to in the second subparagraph shall take place no later than the end of the first year of the application of the single payment scheme.]
3.Premium rights, which have been withdrawn pursuant to the measure taken pursuant to paragraph 2 shall be abolished.
[F24. The following ceilings shall apply:
| Member State | Rights (x 1 000 ) |
|---|---|
| Belgium | 70 |
| Bulgaria | 2 058,483 |
| Czech Republic | 66,733 |
| Denmark | 104 |
| Germany | 2 432 |
| Estonia | 48 |
| Greece | 11 023 |
| Spain | 19 580 |
| France | 7 842 |
| Ireland | 4 956 |
| Italy | 9 575 |
| Cyprus | 472,401 |
| Latvia | 18,437 |
| Lithuania | 17,304 |
| Luxembourg | 4 |
| Hungary | 1 146 |
| Malta | 8,485 |
| Netherlands | 930 |
| Austria | 206 |
| Poland | 335,88 |
| Portugal | 2 690 |
| Romania | 5 880,62 |
| Slovenia | 84,909 |
| Slovakia | 305,756 |
| Finland | 80 |
| Sweden | 180 |
| United Kingdom | 19 492 |
| Total | 89 607,008] |
Textual Amendments
F1 Substituted by Council Regulation (EC) No 583/2004 of 22 March 2004 amending Regulations (EC) No 1782/2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers, (EC) No 1786/2003 on the common organisation of the market in dried fodder and (EC) No 1257/1999 on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) by reason of the accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to the European Union.