PUBLIC - Croatia, the War, and the Future

(a) By way of derogation from the obligation laid down in Article 4(1) of Regulation (EC)
No 73/2009 to respect the statutory management requirements listed in Annex II of that
Regulation, farmers in Croatia receiving direct payments shall include into the scope of
cross compliance the statutory management requirements laid down in Points A, B and
C of Annex II according to the following time schedule: as of 1 January 2014 for Point
A, as of 1 January 2016 for Point B and as of 1 January 2018 for Point C.
(b) After Chapter 1 in title V of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, the following Chapter
heading and Article are inserted:
'CHAPTER 1a
Single payment scheme
Article 121a
Single payment scheme in Croatia
For Croatia, the application of Articles 4, 5, 23, 24 and 25 shall be optional until 31 December 2013
insofar as those provisions relate to statutory management requirements. As from 1 January 2014 a
farmer receiving payments under the single payment scheme in Croatia shall fulfil the statutory
management requirements referred to in Annex II in accordance with the following timetable:
(a) requirements referred to in Point A of Annex II shall apply from 1 January 2014;
(b) requirements referred to in Point B of Annex II shall apply from 1 January 2016;
(c) requirements referred to in Point C of Annex II shall apply from 1 January 2018.'
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