The Common Agricultural Policy Single Farm Payment and Support Schemes (Scotland) Regulations 2011

PART 3 Voluntary Modulation

Voluntary modulation

6.—(1) For the purposes of calculating the total amount of direct payments to be paid to a farmer for any year, the Scottish Ministers must, in application of Articles 1 and 3(1) of Council Regulation 378/2007, deduct a sum equal to the specified proportion of the relevant amount.

(2) In accordance with Article 1(2) of Council Regulation 378/2007, the Scottish Ministers must apply the sum deducted under paragraph (1) for one or more of the relevant purposes.

(3) In this regulation—

“the relevant amount” means the amount which would have been granted to the farmer in respect of the year concerned before the application of Article 7 of Council Regulation 73/2009;

“the relevant purposes” means support for the measures under the following provisions of Council Regulation 1698/2005(1)—

(a)

Articles 20 to 33 (measures improving the competitiveness of the agricultural and forestry sector);

(b)

Articles 36 to 49 (measures improving the environment and the countryside);

(c)

Articles 52 to 59 (measures as regards the quality of life in rural areas and diversification of the rural economy); or

(d)

Articles 61 to 65 (Leader); and

“the specified proportion” means, in relation to the year 2012, the percentages given in the following table:—

Amount of Direct Payment (€ Euros)	Specified Proportion
€00.01 to 5,000	9%
(*) Percentages are applied according to the threshold reached for total direct payments.
€5,000.01 to 300,000	4%
€300,000 and above	0%

(1)

As funded in Scotland under the Scotland Rural Development Programme 2007-2013.