- AKIS
means the combined organisation and knowledge flows between persons, organisations and institutions who use and produce knowledge for agriculture and interrelated fields (Agricultural Knowledge and Innovation System);
- approved interbranch organisation
means a legal entity made up of farmers producing cotton and at least one ginner, carrying out activities such as:
- farmer
means a natural or legal person, or a group of natural or legal persons, regardless of the legal status granted to such group and its members by national law, whose holding is situated within the territorial scope of the Treaties, as defined in Article 52 of the Treaty on European Union in conjunction with Articles 349 and 355 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), and who exercises an agricultural activity as determined by Member States in accordance with Article 4(2) of this Regulation;
- financial year
means agricultural financial year in accordance with Article 35 of Regulation (EU) 2021/2116.
- holding
means all the units used for agricultural activities and managed by a farmer situated within the territory of the same Member State;
- intermediate body
means any public or private law body, including regional or local bodies, regional development bodies or non-governmental organisations, which acts under the responsibility of a national or regional managing authority, or which carries out duties on behalf of such an authority;
- intervention
means a support instrument with a set of eligibility conditions specified by a Member State in its CAP Strategic Plan based on a type of intervention provided for in this Regulation;
- LEADER
means community-led local development referred to in Article 31 of Regulation (EU) 2021/1060;
- less developed regions
means less developed regions within the meaning of Article 108(2), first subparagraph, point (a), of Regulation (EU) 2021/1060;
- milestones
means intermediate pre-established values, set by Member States in the framework of their intervention strategies referred to in Article 107(1), point (b), for a specific financial year to be achieved at a given point in time during the CAP Strategic Plan period to ensure timely progress in relation to the result indicators;
- mutual fund
means a scheme accredited by a Member State in accordance with its national law for affiliated farmers to insure themselves, whereby compensation payments are made to affiliated farmers who experience economic losses;
- operation
means:
- outermost regions
means the outermost regions referred to in Article 349 TFEU;
- public expenditure
means any contribution to the financing of operations the source of which is the budget of national, regional or local public authorities, the budget of the Union made available to the EAGF and the EAFRD, the budget of public law bodies or the budget of associations of public authorities or of public law bodies;
- smaller Aegean islands
means smaller Aegean islands as defined in Article 1(2) of Regulation (EU) No 229/2013;
- statutory management requirement
means each individual statutory management requirement under Union law listed in Annex III within a given legal act, differing in substance from any other requirement in the same act.
- support rate
means the rate of public expenditure to an operation;
- targets
means pre-established values, set by Member States in the framework of their intervention strategies referred to in Article 107(1), point (b), to be achieved at the end of the CAP Strategic Plan period in relation to the result indicators;