- ad hoc aid
means aid not granted on the basis of an aid scheme;
- adverse climatic event which can be assimilated to a natural disaster
means unfavourable weather conditions such as frost, storms and hail, ice, heavy or persistent rain or severe drought which destroy, in the case of agriculture, more than 30 % of the average production calculated on the basis of the preceding three-year or four-year period or of the average production calculated on the basis of the preceding five-year or eight-year period, excluding the highest and the lowest entry;
- advice
means complete advice given in the framework of one and the same contract;
- agricultural activity
means an activity as determined by a Member State in its CAP Strategic Plan in accordance with Article 4(2) of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115;
- agricultural area
means any area as determined by a Member State in its CAP Strategic Plan in accordance with Article 4(3) of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115;
- agricultural holding
means a unit comprising of land, premises and facilities used for primary agricultural production;
- agricultural product
means the products listed in Annex I to the Treaty, except the fishery and aquaculture products listed in Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 1379/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- agricultural sector
means all undertakings active in primary agricultural production, processing and marketing of agricultural products;
- agroforestry systems
means land use systems where trees are grown in combination with agriculture on the same land;
- aid
means any measure fulfilling all the criteria laid down in Article 107(1) of the Treaty;
- aid granted in the framework of a CAP Strategic Plan
means support granted in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 either as aid co-financed by the EAFRD or as additional national financing to such co-financed aid;
- aid intensity
means the gross aid amount expressed as a percentage of the eligible costs, before any deduction of tax or other charge;
- aid scheme
means any act on the basis of which, without further implementing measures being required, individual aid awards may be made to undertakings defined within the act in a general and abstract manner and any act on the basis of which aid which is not linked to a specific project may be granted to one or several undertakings for an indefinite period of time and for an indefinite amount;
- biosecurity measures
means management and physical measures designed to reduce the risk of introduction, development and spread of diseases to, from and within the following:
- breeding book
means book as provided for in Article 2, point (12), of Regulation (EU) 2016/1012 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- capitalised works
means works, undertaken by a farmer personally or by the farmer’s workers on the farm, that create an asset;
- carbon farming schemes
means aid schemes related to land management practices resulting in the increase of carbon storage in living biomass, dead organic matter and soils by enhancing carbon capture and/or reducing the release of carbon to the atmosphere;
- catastrophic event
means an unforeseen event of biotic or abiotic nature caused by human action that leads to important disturbances of forest structures, eventually causing important economic damage to the forest sectors;
- control and eradication measures
means measures regarding animal diseases for which a competent authority of the Member State has formally recognised an outbreak, or regarding plant pests or invasive alien species for which a competent authority has formally acknowledged their presence;
- date of granting the aid
means the date when the legal right to receive the aid is conferred on the beneficiary under the applicable national legal regime;
- evaluation plan
means a document covering one or more aid schemes and containing at least the following aspects: the objectives to be evaluated, the evaluation questions, the result indicators, the envisaged method to conduct the evaluation, the data collection requirements, the proposed timing of the evaluation including the date of submission of the interim and of the final evaluation reports, the description of the independent body that will carry out the evaluation or the criteria that will be used for its selection and the modalities for making the evaluation publicly available;
- ex situ collection
means a collection of genetic material for forestry maintained outside their natural habitat.
- ex situ conservation
means the conservation of genetic material for forestry outside their natural habitat;
- fallen stock
means animals which have been killed by euthanasia with or without a definite diagnosis or which have died, including stillborn and unborn animals, on a farm or on any premises or during transport, but which have not been slaughtered for human consumption;
- fast growing trees
means a short rotation forest, where the minimum time before felling is set to be not less than 8 years and the maximum time before felling is set not to exceed 20 years;
- fiscal successor scheme
means a scheme in the form of tax advantages which constitutes an amended version of a previously existing scheme in the form of tax advantages and which replaces it;
- fixed costs arising from participation in quality scheme
means the costs incurred for entering a supported quality scheme and the annual contribution for participating in that quality scheme, including, where necessary, expenditure on checks required to verify compliance with the specifications of the quality scheme;
- food based biofuel
means a biofuel produced from food and feed crops, as defined in Directive (EU) 2018/2001;
- foodstuffs
means foodstuffs which are not agricultural products and which are listed in Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 1151/2012 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- gross grant equivalent
means the amount of the aid if it had been provided in the form of a grant to the beneficiary, before any deduction of tax or other charges;
- in situ conservation
means the conservation of genetic material in ecosystems and natural habitats and the maintenance and recovery of viable population of species or feral breeds in their natural surroundings and, in the case of domesticated animal breeds or cultivated plant species, in the farmed environment where they have developed their distinctive properties;
- individual aid
means:
- intangible assets
means assets that do not have a physical or financial embodiment such as patents, licences, know-how or other intellectual property;
- investments to comply with a Union standard
means investments made to comply with a Union standard after the expiry of the transitional period provided for in Union legislation;
- large enterprises
means undertakings not fulfilling the criteria laid down in Annex I;
- marketing of agricultural products
means holding or displaying with a view to sale, offering for sale, delivery or any other manner of placing on the market, except the first sale by a farmer to resellers or processors and any activity preparing a product for such first sale;
- micro, small and medium-sized enterprises
means undertakings fulfilling the criteria laid down in Annex I;
- mutual funds
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;
- Natura 2000 areas
means special agriculture or forest areas as referred to in Article 3 of Directive 92/43/EEC and in Article 3 of Directive 2009/147/EC;
- natural disasters
means earthquakes, avalanches, landslides and floods, tornadoes, hurricanes, volcanic eruptions and wild fires of natural origin;
- non-productive investment
means investment which does not lead to a significant increase in the value or profitability of the holding;
- on-farm conservation
means in situ conservation and development at farm level;
- on-forest holding conservation
means in situ conservation and development at forest holding level;
- operations prior to industrial processing
means felling, dismembering, stripping, cutting up, storage, protective treatment and drying of wood and all other working operations prior to the industrial sawing of wood at a sawing mill;
- other adverse climatic events
means unfavourable weather conditions which do not fall within the definition of adverse climatic event which can be assimilated to a natural disaster;
- outermost regions
means the regions referred to in Article 349, first paragraph, of the Treaty;
- plant pest
means: any species, strain or biotype of plant, animal or pathogenic agent injurious to plants or plant products;
- primary agricultural production
means the production of products of the soil and of stock farming, listed in Annex I to the Treaty, without performing any further operation changing the nature of such products;
- processing of agricultural products
means any operation on an agricultural product resulting in a product which is also an agricultural product, except on-farm activities necessary for preparing an animal or plant product for first sale;
- producer group or organisation
means a group or organisation set up for the purpose of one of the following:
- protected animal
means any animal protected either by Union or by national legislation, including animal species for which national legislation provides for specific rules to preserve the population;
- regional aid maps
means the list of areas designated by a Member State in line with the conditions laid down in the Guidelines on regional State aid and approved by the Commission;
- repayable advance
means a loan for a project which is paid in one or more instalments and the conditions for the reimbursement of which depend on the outcome of the project;
- research and knowledge-dissemination organisation
means an entity, irrespective of its legal status or way of financing, whose primary goal is to independently conduct fundamental research, industrial research or experimental development, or to widely disseminate the results of such activities by way of teaching, publication or knowledge transfer;
- smaller Aegean islands
means the smaller islands referred to in Article 1(2) of Regulation (EU) No 229/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- start of works on the project or activity
means the earlier of either the start of the activities or the construction works relating to the investment, or the first legally binding commitment to order equipment or employ services or any other commitment that makes the project or activity irreversible;
- subsidised services
means a form of aid, where the aid is granted to the final beneficiary indirectly, in kind, and is paid to the provider of the service or activity in question;
- tangible assets
means assets consisting of land, buildings and plant, machinery and equipment;
- transaction cost
means an additional cost linked to fulfilling a commitment, but not directly attributable to its implementation or not included in the costs or income foregone that are compensated directly;
- trees for short rotation coppicing
means tree species of CN code 06 02 9041 to be defined by Member States that consist of woody, perennial crops, the rootstock or stools of which remain in the ground after harvesting, with new shoots emerging in the following season and with a maximum harvest cycle to be determined by the Member States;
- undertaking in difficulty
means an undertaking fulfilling the criteria laid down in Article 2, point (18), of Regulation (EU) No 651/2014;
- Union standard
means mandatory standard laid down in Union legislation setting the level which individual undertakings must achieve, in particular as regards the environment, hygiene and animal welfare;
- young farmer
means a farmer as determined by a Member State in its CAP Strategic Plan in accordance with Article 4(6) of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115.