This Regulation establishes:
[X1common rules on direct payments] under income support schemes in the framework of the common agricultural policy which are financed by the ‘Guarantee’ Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund [X1(EAGGF) listed in Annex I, except those provided for under Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999];
an income support for farmers (hereinafter referred to as the ‘single payment scheme’);
[F1support schemes for farmers producing hops.]
Editorial Information
X1 Substituted by Corrigendum to 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) No 1868/94, (EC) No 1251/1999, (EC) No 1254/1999, (EC) No 1673/2000, (EEC) No 2358/71 and (EC) No 2529/2001 (Official Journal of the European Union L 270 of 21 October 2003).
Textual Amendments
F1 Substituted by Council Regulation (EC) No 864/2004 of 29 April 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers, and adapting it by reason of the accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to the European Union.
For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:
‘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,
‘holding’ means all the production units managed by a farmer situated within the territory of the same Member State,
‘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,
‘direct payment’ means a payment granted directly to farmers under an income support scheme listed in Annex I,
‘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,
‘agricultural products’ means the products listed in Annex I of the Treaty, including cotton, but with the exception of fishery products.