Regulation (EU) 2015/1146 fixing the adjustment rate provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 for direct payments in respect of the calendar year 2015

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to fix the adjustment rate provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 for direct payments in respect of calendar year 2015. PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council. ROLE OF THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT: the European Parliament decides in accordance with the ordinary legislative procedure and on an equal footing with the Council. BACKGROUND: Article 25 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council lays down that a reserve intended to provide additional support for the agricultural sector in the case of major crises affecting the agricultural production or distribution has to be established by applying, at the beginning of each year, a reduction to direct payments with the financial discipline mechanism referred to in Article 26 of that Regulation. The Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development adopted the report by Czesław Adam SIEKIERSKI (EPP, PL) on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council fixing the adjustment rate provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 for direct payments in respect of calendar year 2015. The committee recommended that the European Parliament adopt its position at first reading taking over the Commission proposal . The purpose of the proposed Regulation is to implement the provisions of Article 26 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy and Article 8 of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy. It seeks to set the percentage rate of the financial discipline adjustment rate in respect of calendar year 2015 . The European Parliament adopted by 544 votes to 78, with 9 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council fixing the adjustment rate provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 for direct payments in respect of calendar year 2015. Parliament adopted its position at first reading in which it approved, unamended, the Commission proposal. This proposal seeks to set the percentage rate of the financial discipline adjustment rate in respect of calendar year 2015 . It lays down the amounts of direct payments under the support schemes listed in Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 to be granted to a farmer in excess of EUR 2 000 for an aid application submitted in respect of calendar year 2015 shall be reduced by 1.393041%. The reduction shall not apply in Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania. Until 1 December 2015, the adjustment rate fixed by this Regulation may be adapted by the Commission, on the basis of new information in its possession. LEGISLATIVE ACT: Regulation (EU) 2015/1146 of the European Parliament and of the Council fixing the adjustment rate provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 for direct payments in respect of the calendar year 2015. CONTENT: this Regulations seeks to implement the provisions of Article 26 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy and Article 8 of Regulation…

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