The person named included one single parcel of land totalling 14.97 hectares in his 1999 area aid application. Subsequent amendments to the Department's electronic mapping database showed the correct area of the parcel to be 14.11 hectares.
This represents a difference of 0.86 hectares or 6.09 per cent between the area claimed and that determined. Under Article 9 of EU Regulation 3887/92, no penalty is applied when the difference is less than 3 per cent, the penalty is based on double the difference when it is between 3 per cent and 20 per cent and when the difference is over 20 per cent, a 100 per cent penalty must be applied. Therefore in this case a penalty of 1.72 hectares has been applied, leaving the area determined 12.39 hectares. Any payments due will issue as soon as possible.