- action plan
means, for the purposes of Articles 41 and 42 of this Regulation, a plan established by a Member State, on the request of, and in consultation with, the Commission, in the event that serious deficiencies in the proper functioning of the governance systems of that Member State are identified or in the circumstances referred to in Article 135 of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, containing the necessary remedial actions and the relevant timeframe for its implementation in accordance with Articles 41 and 42 of this Regulation.
- agricultural parcel
means a unit, defined by Member States, of agricultural area as determined in accordance with Article 4(3) of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115;
- area monitoring system
means a procedure of regular and systematic observation, tracking and assessment of agricultural activities and practices on agricultural areas by Copernicus Sentinels satellite data or other data with at least equivalent value;
- automatic claim system
means an application system for area- or animal-based interventions in which the data required by the administration on at least individual areas or animals claimed for aid are available in official computerised databases managed by the Member State and made available to the beneficiary where necessary.
- basic Union requirements
means the requirements laid down in Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, in this Regulation, in the Financial Regulation and in Directive 2014/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- commercial document
means all books, registers, vouchers and supporting documents, accounts, production and quality records, correspondence relating to the undertaking’s business activity, and commercial data, in whatever form they may take, including electronically stored data, in so far as those documents or data relate directly or indirectly to the transactions referred to in paragraph 1;
- geo-spatial application
means an electronic application form that includes an information technology application based on a geographic information system that allows beneficiaries to spatially declare the agricultural parcels of the holding as defined in Article 3, point (2), of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 and non-agricultural areas claimed for payment;
- geographic information system
means a computer system capable of capturing, storing, analysing, and displaying geographically referenced information;
- governance systems
means the governance bodies referred to in Title II, Chapter II, of this Regulation and the basic Union requirements, including Member States’ obligations with regard to the effective protection of the financial interests of the Union referred to in Article 59 of this Regulation as well as the implementation, in accordance with Article 9 of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, of their CAP Strategic Plans as approved by the Commission, and the reporting system put in place for the purposes of the annual performance report referred to in Article 134 of that Regulation;
- irregularity
means an irregularity within the meaning of Article 1(2) of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2988/95;
- legal act
means each of the individual directives and regulations referred to in Article 12 of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115;
- location indicator or geolocation for the operation
means the municipality where the beneficiary is resident or is registered and, where available, the postal code or the part thereof identifying the municipality.
- operation
means measure, sector or type of intervention;
- output indicator
means an output indicator as referred to in Article 7(1), point (a), of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115;
- reoccurrence of non-compliance
means non-compliance with the same requirement or standard more than once within a consecutive period of three calendar years, provided that the beneficiary has been informed of previous non-compliance and, where relevant, has had the possibility to take the necessary measures to remedy that previous non-compliance.
- requirement
means each individual statutory management requirement under Union law referred to in Article 12 of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 within a given legal act, differing in substance from any other requirements of the same legal act;
- result indicator
means a result indicator as referred to in Article 7(1), point (b), of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115;
- serious deficiencies in the proper functioning of the governance systems
means the existence of a systemic weakness, taking into account its recurrence, gravity and compromising effect on the correct declaration of expenditure, the reporting on performance, or the respect of Union law;
- system for the identification and registration of animals
means the system for the identification and registration of kept terrestrial animals laid down by Part IV, Title I, Chapter 2, Section 1, of Regulation (EU) 2016/429 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- third party
means any natural or legal person directly or indirectly connected with transactions carried out within the financing system by the EAGF.
- total cost of the operation
means the amounts of payment corresponding to each measure, sector, or type of intervention financed by the EAGF or the EAFRD received by each beneficiary in the financial year concerned;
- transfer
means any type of transaction whereby the agricultural land, or the agricultural holding, or part thereof, ceases to be at the disposal of the transferor.