This Regulation lays down the detailed rules for the implementation of cross-compliance, modulation and the integrated administration and control system (hereinafter the integrated system), established by Chapter 4 of Title II of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, and for the implementation of cross-compliance provided for in Articles 85t and 103z of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007. It shall be without prejudice to specific provisions laid down in the Regulations covering the individual aid schemes.

For the purposes of this Regulation, the definitions in Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 shall apply.

The following definitions shall also apply:

1. (1)

   ‘agricultural parcel’ means a continuous area of land, declared by one farmer, which does not cover more than one single crop group; however, where a separate declaration of the use of an area within a crop group is required in the context of this Regulation, that specific use shall if necessary further limit the agricultural parcel; Member States may lay down additional criteria for further delimitation of an agricultural parcel;

2. (2)

   ‘permanent pasture’ means permanent pasture as defined in Article 2(c) of Regulation (EC) No 1120/200910;

3. (3)

   ‘system for the identification and registration of bovine animals’ means the system for the identification and registration of bovine animals established by Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000;

4. (4)

   ‘ear tag’ means the ear tag to identify animals individually referred to in Article 3(a) and Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000;

5. (5)

   ‘computerised database for bovine animals’ means the computerised database referred to in Article 3(b) and Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000;

6. (6)

   ‘animal passport’ means the animal passport referred to in Article 3(c) and Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000;

7. (7)

   ‘register’ means the register kept by the keepers of animals in accordance with Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 or Article 3(d) and Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 respectively;

8. (8)

   ‘elements of the system for the identification and registration of bovine animals’ means the elements referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000;

9. (9)

   ‘identification code’ means the identification code referred to in Article 4(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000;

10. (10)

    ‘irregularities’ means any non-respect of the relevant rules for the granting of the aid in question;

11. (11)

    ‘single application’ means the application for direct payments in respect of the single payment scheme and other area-related aid schemes;

12. (12)

    ‘area-related aid schemes’ means the single payment scheme, area-related payments under specific support and all aid schemes established under Titles IV and V of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, except those established under Sections 7, 10, and 11 of that Title IV, except the separate sugar payment established in Article 126 of that Regulation and except the separate fruit and vegetable payment established in Article 127 of that Regulation;

13. (13)

    ‘livestock aid application’ means the applications for the payment of aid under the sheep and goat premiums scheme and the beef and veal payments schemes provided for in Sections 10 and 11 of Title IV, respectively, of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 and livestock headage or livestock unit payments under specific support;

14. (14)

    ‘specific support’ means support referred to in Article 68 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009;

15. (15)

    ‘use’ means the use of area in terms of the type of crop or ground cover or the absence of a crop;

16. (16)

    ‘bovine aid schemes’ means the aid schemes referred to in Article 108 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009;

17. (17)

    ‘ovine/caprine aid scheme’ means the aid scheme referred to in Article 99 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009;

18. (18)

    ‘claimed bovine animals’ means bovine animals subject to a livestock aid application under the bovine aid schemes or under specific support;

19. (19)

    ‘unclaimed bovine animals’ means bovine animals not yet subject to a livestock aid application but potentially eligible for aid under the bovine aid schemes;

20. (20)

    ‘potentially eligible animal’ means an animal that could a priori potentially fulfil the eligibility criteria for receiving the aid in the claim year in question;

21. (21)

    ‘retention period’ means the period during which an animal for which aid has been claimed has to be kept on the holding, as provided for in the following provisions of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1121/200911:

    1. (a)

       Articles 53 and 57, in relation to the special premium for male bovines;

    2. (b)

       Article 61, in relation to the suckler cow premium;

    3. (c)

       Article 80, in relation to the slaughter premium;

    4. (d)

       Article 35(3), in relation to aid paid for ovines and caprines;

22. (22)

    ‘animal keeper’ means any natural or legal person responsible for animals whether on a permanent or on a temporary basis, including during transportation or at a market;

23. (23)

    ‘area determined’ means the area for which all conditions laid down in the rules for granting the aid have been met; in the case of the single payment scheme, the area declared may be deemed as being determined only if it is actually being accompanied by a corresponding number of payment entitlements;

24. (24)

    ‘animal determined’ means an animal for which all conditions laid down in the rules for granting the aid have been met;

25. (25)

    ‘premium period’ means the period to which aid applications refer irrespective of the moment of their submission;

26. (26)

    ‘geographical Information System’ (hereinafter referred to as GIS) means the computerised geographical information system techniques referred to in Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009;

27. (27)

    ‘reference parcel’ means a geographically delimited area retaining a unique identification as registered in the GIS in the Member State's identification system referred to in Article 15 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009;

28. (28)

    ‘geographical material’ means maps or other documents used to communicate the contents of the GIS between the aid applicants and the Member State's;

29. (29)

    ‘national coordinate reference system’ means a system as defined in Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council12 which permits standardised measurement and unique identification of agricultural parcels throughout the Member State concerned;

30. (30)

    ‘paying agency’ means the authorities and bodies referred to in Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005;

31. (31)

    ‘cross-compliance’ means the statutory management requirements and the good agricultural and environmental condition in accordance with Articles 5 and 6 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009;

32. (32)

    ‘areas of cross-compliance’ means the different areas of statutory management requirements within the meaning of Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 and the good agricultural and environmental condition in accordance with Article 6 of that Regulation;

33. (33)

    ‘act’ means each of the individual Directives and Regulations listed in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 73/2009;

34. (34)

    ‘standards’ means the standards as defined by the Member States in accordance with Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 and Annex III thereto as well as the obligations in relation to permanent pasture as laid down in Article 4 of this Regulation;

35. (35)

    ‘requirement’, where this term is used in the context of cross-compliance, it means each individual statutory management requirement resulting from any of the Articles referred to in Annex II to Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 within a given act, differing in substance from any other requirements of the same act;

36. (36)

    ‘non-compliance’ means any non-compliance with the requirements and standards;

37. (37)

    ‘specialised control bodies’ means the national competent control authorities, as referred to in Article 48 of this Regulation, responsible, in accordance with the first subparagraph of Article 22(2) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, for ensuring compliance with the statutory management requirements and good agricultural and environmental condition;

38. (38)

    ‘from payment’ means, for the purposes of the cross-compliance obligations provided for in Articles 85t and 103z of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007, as from 1 January of the year following the calendar year in which the first payment was granted.