Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 (repealed)Show full title

Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 of 19 January 2009 establishing common rules for direct support schemes for farmers under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers, amending Regulations (EC) No 1290/2005, (EC) No 247/2006, (EC) No 378/2007 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 (repealed)

Article 104Individual limits

1.On 1 January 2009, the individual ceiling per farmer referred to in Article 101(3) shall be equal to the number of premium rights which he held on 31 December 2008 in accordance with the relevant Community rules.

2.Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the sum of premium rights on their territory does not exceed the national ceilings set out in paragraph 4 and that the national reserve referred to in Article 106 may be maintained.

After the end of the period of application of the single area payment scheme in accordance with Article 122 and where Article 52 is applied, the allocation of the individual ceilings to producers and the setting up of the national reserve referred to in Article 106 shall take place no later than the end of the first year of the application of the single payment scheme.

3.Premium rights which have been withdrawn under the measures taken pursuant to the first subparagraph of paragraph 2 shall be cancelled.

4.The following national ceilings shall apply:

Member StateNational ceiling
Bulgaria2 058 483
Czech Republic66 733
Denmark104 000
Estonia48 000
Spain19 580 000
France7 842 000
Cyprus472 401
Latvia18 437
Lithuania17 304
Hungary1 146 000
Poland335 880
Portugal2 690 000
Romania5 880 620
Slovenia84 909
Slovakia305 756
Finland80 000
Total40 730 523