For the purposes of the first paragraph of Article 59(3) of the Council Regulation, the corresponding part of the regional ceiling established under Article 58 of the Council Regulation shall be computed by taking the average amounts of all payments which, but for the application of penalties, would have been paid by the Department to farmers during the reference period under each of the schemes listed at column 1 of the Table at Schedule 1, multiplying each such amount by the percentage opposite the scheme at column 2 and totalling the products of these calculations.

For the purposes of this regulation –

• “payment” means a payment for the relevant scheme as it would have been assessed at the appropriate rate for that scheme applicable in the year 2002, and

• “appropriate rate” means the rate of payment for that scheme calculated in euro.