This Regulation sets out common rules for direct support schemes for farmers under the common agricultural policy. In particular it establishes: (a) common rules on direct payments; (b) an income support scheme for farmers (the single payment scheme); (c) a transitional simplified income support scheme for farmers in the new European Union Member States; and (d) support schemes for farmers producing rice, starch potatoes, protein crops, nuts, seeds, cotton, sugar, fruit and vegetables, sheepmeat and goatmeat and beef and veal.
2009-01-19