Where Member States choose to provide support in accordance with Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 479/2008, they shall establish a reference amount for each farmer as well as the applicable hectares:

1. (a)

   on the basis of objective and non-discriminatory criteria;

2. (b)

   in respect of a representative reference period of one or more wine years starting from the wine year 2005/2006. However, the reference criteria used to establish the reference amount and applicable hectares shall not be based on a reference period including wine years after the wine year 2007/2008 where the transfer in support programmes concerns compensation to farmers who have previously received support for potable alcohol distillation or have been the economic beneficiaries of the support for the use of concentrated grape must to enrich wine under Regulation (EC) No 479/2008;

3. (c)

   which shall not exceed the overall available amount for this measure referred to in Article 6(e) of Regulation (EC) No 479/2008.

Farmers shall receive a payment entitlement per hectare which is calculated by dividing the abovementioned reference amount by the number of applicable hectares.