This Regulation establishes:

1. (a)

   common rules on direct payments;

2. (b)

   an income support scheme for farmers (hereinafter referred to as the ‘single payment scheme’);

3. (c)

   a transitional simplified income support scheme for farmers in the new Member States as defined in Article 2(g) (hereinafter referred to as the ‘single area payment scheme’);

4. (d)

   support schemes for farmers producing rice, starch potatoes, protein crops, nuts, seeds, cotton, sugar, fruit and vegetables, sheepmeat and goatmeat and beef and veal;

5. (e)

   a framework to enable the new Member States as defined in Article 2(g) to complement direct payments.