COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) No 502/2014

of 11 March 2014

supplementing Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 and Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the basis of calculation for reductions to be applied to farmers by Member States due to the linear reduction of payments in 2014 and financial discipline for calendar year 2014

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to 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 (1), and in particular Article 140a thereof,

Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 637/2008 and Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 (2), and in particular Article 8(3) thereof

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Reductions due to the linear reduction of direct payments in 2014 provided for in Article 40(3) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 as well as reductions due to financial discipline provided for in Article 8 of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 for calendar year 2014 shall be applied to the sum of the payments from the different support schemes listed in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 to which each farmer is entitled to after the application of Article 78 of Regulation (EC) No 1122/2009.

Those reductions shall be applied before the reductions provided for in Article 79(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1122/2009 are applied.

Article 2

Advances referred to in Article 29(5) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 may be paid without taking into account the reductions due to financial discipline provided for in Article 26 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 and Article 8 of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013. The balance payment to be granted to beneficiaries as from 1 December 2014 shall take into account the adjustment rate of financial discipline applicable at that time for the total amount of direct payments in respect of calendar year 2014.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply to aid applications lodged in respect of 2014.

(1) OJ L 30, 31.1.2009, p. 16.

(2) OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 608.

(3) Regulation (EU) No 1310/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December laying down certain transitional provisions on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), amending Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards resources and their distribution in respect of the year 2014 and amending Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 and Regulations (EU) No 1307/2013, (EU) No 1306/2013 and (EU) No 1308/2013of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards their application in the year 2014 (OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 865).

(4) Commission Regulation (EC) No 1122/2009 of 30 November 2009 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 as regards cross-compliance, modulation and the integrated administration and control system, under the direct support schemes for farmers provided for that Regulation, as well as for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards cross-compliance under the support scheme provided for the wine sector (OJ L 316, 2.12.2009, p. 65).

(5) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 635/2013 of 25 April 2013 supplementing Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 as regards the basis of calculation for reductions to be applied to farmers by Member States due to the adjustment of payments in 2013 and financial discipline for calendar year 2013 (OJ L 183, 2.7.2013, p. 1).

(6) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 946/2013 of 2 October 2013 on advances to be paid from 16 October 2013 of the direct payments listed in Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 establishing common rules for direct support schemes for farmers under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers (OJ L 261, 3.10.2013, p. 25).

(7) Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 352/78, (EC) No 165/94, (EC) No 2799/98, (EC) No 814/2000, (EC) No 1290/2005 and (EC) No 485/2008 (OJ L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 549).