Translation of "extensification payment scheme " (English → French) :

Participation in the extensification payment scheme

1. To qualify for the extensification payment, farmers shall indicate on the application for direct payments referred to in Article 22 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 that they wish to participate in the extensification payment scheme.

1. The date of submission of the application shall constitute the operative event for determining the year to which animals covered by the special premium, suckler cow premium, deseasonalisation premium and extensification payment schemes are allocated and the number of LUs to be used for calculating the stocking density.

The stocking density for the extensification payment scheme should include all bovine animals aged six months and over present on the holding.

Member States may use the computerised databases referred to in Article 3(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 to determine the number of LUs on condition that those databases offer, to the satisfaction of the Member State concerned, adequate assurances as to the accuracy of the data they contain for the purposes of the extensification payment scheme.

This situation should be considered a special situation in accordance with Article 42(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and treated consequently.Without prejudice to the application of Article 43(2)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 which provides that all forage area in the reference period should be included in the calculation of the payment entitlements, in order to facilitate the task of the national administrations in establishing the provisional payment entitlements, it is appropriate to give them the possibility to take into account the number of forage areas declared in the area aid application before the introduction of the singl ...[+++]e payment scheme or in case of preliminary establishment of payment entitlements, whilst allowing the farmer the possibility to prove that his or her forage area in the reference period was lower.The current implementing rules on the payment entitlements subject to special conditions need to be completed or specified as far as they concern certain aspects of the establishment and management of those entitlements.Extensification payments and additional payments in the beef and veal and sheep and goat sectors referred to in Annex VI of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 were granted in the reference period according to eligibility conditions and amounts set up by Member States and may vary from one year to the other.