23Furthermore, it should be noted that Regulation No 1782/2003 seeks to facilitate the transition from production aid to producer aid by the gradual reduction of direct payments and the introduction of an income support scheme decoupled from production, namely the scheme for single payments determined on the basis of previous entitlements within a reference period, in order to make farmers in the European Union more competitive. The introduction of the single payment scheme is part of the new CAP, one of the main aims of which is to rationalise and simplify the relevant EU rules, while achieving a greater decentralisation of policy implementation, with a broader margin of discretion being left to Member States and their regions (judgment of 19 September 2013 in Panellinios Syndesmos Viomichanion Metapoiisis Kapnou, C‑373/11, EU:C:2013:567, paragraphs 17 and 18).
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