TITLE IIISINGLE PAYMENT SCHEME

CHAPTER 5REGIONAL AND OPTIONAL IMPLEMENTATION

Section 3Optional exclusions

Article 70Optional exclusion of some direct payments

1

A Member State may decide, by 1 August 2004 at the latest, to exclude from the single payment scheme:

a

one or more of the direct payments granted in the reference period under:

  • Article 4(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1251/1999,

  • Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 2358/71.

In this case, Articles 64 and 65 shall apply mutatis mutandis;

F1b

all other direct payments listed in Annex VI granted to farmers in the reference period in the French Overseas Departments, the Azores and Madeira, the Canary Islands and the Aegean Islands.

F12

Member States shall grant the direct payments referred to in paragraph 1 within the limit of the ceilings fixed in accordance with Article 64(2), under the conditions established in Title IV, Chapters 3, 6 and 7 to 13.

The total amount of the fixed ceilings shall be deducted from the national ceilings referred to in Article 41 in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 144(2).