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
Modified by
  • Regulation (EU) No 1310/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Councilof 17 December 2013laying 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, 32013R1310, December 20, 2013
  • Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 639/2014of 11 March 2014supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy and amending Annex X to that Regulation, 32014R0639, June 20, 2014
  • Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 994/2014of 13 May 2014amending Annexes VIII and VIIIc to Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Annexes II, III and VI to Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, 32014R0994, September 24, 2014
  • Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1001/2014of 18 July 2014amending Annex X to Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy, 32014R1001, September 25, 2014
  • Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 1378/2014of 17 October 2014amending Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Annexes II and III to Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, 32014R1378, December 23, 2014
  • Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/851of 27 March 2015amending Annexes II, III and VI to Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy, 32015R0851, June 2, 2015
  • Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/142of 2 December 2015amending Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Annex III to Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, 32016R0142, February 4, 2016
  • Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1155of 15 February 2017amending Delegated Regulation (EU) No 639/2014 as regards the control measures relating to the cultivation of hemp, certain provisions on the greening payment, the payment for young farmers in control of a legal person, the calculation of the per unit amount in the framework of voluntary coupled support, the fractions of payment entitlements and certain notification requirements relating to the single area payment scheme and the voluntary coupled support, and amending Annex X to Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, 32017R1155, June 30, 2017
  • Regulation (EU) 2017/2393 of the European Parliament and of the Councilof 13 December 2017amending Regulations (EU) No 1305/2013 on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), (EU) No 1306/2013 on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy, (EU) No 1307/2013 establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy, (EU) No 1308/2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and (EU) No 652/2014 laying down provisions for the management of expenditure relating to the food chain, animal health and animal welfare, and relating to plant health and plant reproductive material, 32017R2393, December 29, 2017
  • Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/162of 23 November 2017amending Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Annexes II and III to Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, 32018R0162, February 2, 2018
  • Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2019/71of 9 November 2018amending Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Annex III to Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, 32019R0071, January 18, 2019
  • Regulation (EU) 2019/288 of the European Parliament and of the Councilof 13 February 2019amending Regulations (EU) No 1305/2013 and (EU) No 1307/2013 as regards certain rules on direct payments and support for rural development in respect of the years 2019 and 2020, 32019R0288, February 22, 2019
  • Regulation (EU) 2020/127 of the European Parliament and of the Councilof 29 January 2020amending Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 as regards financial discipline as from financial year 2021 and Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 as regards flexibility between pillars in respect of calendar year 2020, 32020R0127, January 31, 2020
  • Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/756of 1 April 2020amending Annexes II and III to Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, 32020R0756, June 9, 2020
  • Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2020/1314of 10 July 2020amending Annexes II and III to Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards the national and net ceilings for direct payments for certain Member States for calendar year 2020, 32020R1314, September 22, 2020
  • Regulation (EU) 2020/2220 of the European Parliament and of the Councilof 23 December 2020laying down certain transitional provisions for support from the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and from the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) in the years 2021 and 2022 and amending Regulations (EU) No 1305/2013, (EU) No 1306/2013 and (EU) No 1307/2013 as regards resources and application in the years 2021 and 2022 and Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 as regards resources and the distribution of such support in respect of the years 2021 and 2022, 32020R2220, December 28, 2020
  • Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/1017of 15 April 2021amending Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Annexes II and III to Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council, 32021R1017, June 24, 2021
Corrected by
  • Corrigendum 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, 32013R1307R(01), May 19, 2016
Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Councilof 17 December 2013establishing 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 TITLE ISCOPE AND DEFINITIONS
Article 1ScopeThis Regulation establishes:(a)common rules on payments granted directly to farmers under the support schemes listed in Annex I ("direct payments");(b)specific rules concerning:(i)a basic payment for farmers ("the basic payment scheme" and a transitional simplified scheme, "the single area payment scheme");(ii)a voluntary transitional national aid for farmers;(iii)a voluntary redistributive payment;(iv)a payment for farmers observing agricultural practices beneficial for the climate and the environment;(v)a voluntary payment for farmers in areas with natural constraints;(vi)a payment for young farmers commencing their agricultural activity;(vii)a voluntary coupled support scheme;(viii)a crop-specific payment for cotton;(ix)a voluntary simplified scheme for small farmers;(x)a framework within which Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania may complement direct payments.
Article 2Amendment of Annex IIn order to ensure legal certainty, the Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 70 amending the list of support schemes set out in Annex I to the extent necessary to take account of any new legislative acts on support schemes which may be adopted after the adoption of this Regulation.
Article 3Application to the outermost regions and the smaller Aegean islandsArticle 11 shall not apply to the regions of the Union referred to in Article 349 TFEU ("the outermost regions") and to the direct payments granted in the smaller Aegean islands in accordance with Regulation (EU) No 229/2013.Titles III, IV and V of this Regulation shall not apply to the outermost regions.
Article 4Definitions and related provisions1.For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:(a)"farmer" means a natural or legal person, or a group of natural or legal persons, regardless of the legal status granted to such group and its members by national law, whose holding is situated within the territorial scope of the Treaties, as defined in Article 52 TEU in conjunction with Articles 349 and 355 TFEU, and who exercises an agricultural activity;(b)"holding" means all the units used for agricultural activities and managed by a farmer situated within the territory of the same Member State;(c)"agricultural activity" means:(i)production, rearing or growing of agricultural products, including harvesting, milking, breeding animals, and keeping animals for farming purposes,(ii)maintaining an agricultural area in a state which makes it suitable for grazing or cultivation without preparatory action going beyond usual agricultural methods and machineries, based on criteria established by Member States on the basis of a framework established by the Commission, or(iii)carrying out a minimum activity, defined by Member States, on agricultural areas naturally kept in a state suitable for grazing or cultivation;(d)"agricultural products" means the products, with the exception of fishery products, listed in Annex I to the Treaties as well as cotton;(e)"agricultural area" means any area taken up by arable land, permanent grassland and permanent pasture, or permanent crops;(f)"arable land" means land cultivated for crop production or areas available for crop production but lying fallow, including areas set aside in accordance with Articles 22, 23 and 24 of Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999, with Article 39 of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 and with Article 28 of Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013, irrespective of whether or not that land is under greenhouses or under fixed or mobile cover;(g)"permanent crops" means non-rotational crops other than permanent grassland and permanent pasture that occupy the land for five years or more and yield repeated harvests, including nurseries and short rotation coppice;(h)"permanent grassland and permanent pasture" (together referred to as "permanent grassland") means land used to grow grasses or other herbaceous forage naturally (self-seeded) or through cultivation (sown) and that has not been included in the crop rotation of the holding for five years or more, as well as, where Member States so decide, that has not been ploughed up for five years or more; it may include other species such as shrubs and/or trees which can be grazed and, where Member States so decide, other species such as shrubs and/or trees which produce animal feed, provided that the grasses and other herbaceous forage remain predominant. Member States may also decide to consider as permanent grassland:(i)land which can be grazed and which forms part of established local practices where grasses and other herbaceous forage are traditionally not predominant in grazing areas; and/or(ii)land which can be grazed where grasses and other herbaceous forage are not predominant or are absent in grazing areas;(i)"grasses or other herbaceous forage" means all herbaceous plants traditionally found in natural pastures or normally included in mixtures of seeds for pastures or meadows in the Member State, whether or not used for grazing animals;(j)"nurseries" means the following areas of young ligneous (woody) plants grown in the open air for subsequent transplantation:vine and root-stock nurseries,fruit tree and berries nurseries,ornamental nurseries,commercial nurseries of forest trees excluding those for the holding's own requirements grown within woodland,nurseries of trees and bushes for planting in gardens, parks, at the roadside and on embankments (e.g. hedgerow plants, rose trees and other ornamental bushes, ornamental conifers), including in all cases their stocks and young seedlings;(k)"short rotation coppice" means areas planted with tree species of CN code 06029041 to be defined by Member States that consist of woody, perennial crops, the rootstock or stools of which remain in the ground after harvesting, with new shoots emerging in the following season and with a maximum harvest cycle to be determined by the Member States;(l)"sale" means the sale or any other definitive transfer of ownership of land or payment entitlements; it does not include the sale of land where land is transferred to public authorities or for use in the public interest and where the transfer is carried out for non-agricultural purposes;(m)"lease" means a rental agreement or similar temporary transaction;(n)"transfer" means the lease or sale or actual inheritance or anticipated inheritance of land or payment entitlements or any other definitive transfer thereof; it does not cover the reversion of entitlements upon expiry of a lease.Notwithstanding points (f) and (h) of the first subparagraph, Member States which, prior to 1 January 2018, have accepted parcels of land lying fallow as arable land may continue to accept them as such after that date. From 1 January 2018 parcels of land lying fallow which have been accepted as arable land under this subparagraph in 2018 shall become permanent grassland in 2023, or thereafter, if the conditions set out in point (h) are met.2.Member States shall:(a)establish criteria to be met by farmers in order to fulfil the obligation to maintain an agricultural area in a state suitable for grazing or cultivation, as referred to in point (c)(ii) of paragraph 1;(b)where applicable in a Member State, define the minimum activity to be carried out on agricultural areas naturally kept in a state suitable for grazing or cultivation, as referred to in point (c)(iii) of paragraph 1;(c)define the tree species qualifying for short rotation coppice and determine the maximum harvest cycle in respect of those tree species, as referred to in point (k) of paragraph 1.Member States may decide that land which can be grazed and which forms part of established local practices where grasses and other herbaceous forage are traditionally not predominant in grazing areas is to be considered to be permanent grassland, as referred to in point (h) of paragraph 1.Member States may decide that:(a)land that has not been ploughed up for five years or more shall be considered permanent grassland as referred to in point (h) of the first subparagraph of paragraph 1, provided that the land is used to grow grasses or other herbaceous forages naturally (self-seeded) or through cultivation (sown) and that it has not been included in the crop rotation of the holding for five years or more;(b)permanent grassland may include other species such as shrubs and/or trees which produce animal feed, in areas where grasses and other herbaceous forage are predominant; and/or(c)land which can be grazed where grasses and other herbaceous forage are not predominant or are absent in grazing areas be considered permanent grassland as referred to in point (h) of the first subparagraph of paragraph 1.Member States may decide, on the basis of objective and non-discriminatory criteria, to apply their decision in accordance with points (b) and/or (c) of the third subparagraph of this paragraph to the whole or a part of their territory.Member States shall notify the Commission by 31 March 2018 of any decision taken pursuant to the third and fourth subparagraphs of this paragraph.3.In order to ensure legal certainty, the Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 70 establishing:(a)the framework within which Member States are to establish the criteria to be met by farmers in order to fulfil the obligation to maintain an agricultural area in a state suitable for grazing or cultivation, as referred to in point (c)(ii) of paragraph 1;(b)the framework within which Member States shall define the minimum activity to be carried out on agricultural areas naturally kept in a state suitable for grazing or cultivation, as referred to in point (c)(iii) of paragraph 1;(c)the criteria to determine the predominance of grasses and other herbaceous forage and the criteria to determine the established local practices referred to in point (h) of paragraph 1.
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