TITLE IIISINGLE PAYMENT SCHEME
F1CHAPTER 6IMPLEMENTATION IN THE NEW MEMBER STATES
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Amendments (Textual)
Article 71eRegional allocation of the ceiling referred to in Article 71c
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The new Member States shall apply the single payment scheme at regional level.
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The new Member States shall define the regions according to objective criteria.
New Member States with less than three million eligible hectares may be considered as one single region.
F2However, new Member States having applied the single area payment scheme may be considered as one single region.
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Each new Member State shall subdivide its national ceiling referred to in Article 71c after any reduction according to Article 71d between the regions according to objective criteria.
Inserted 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.