The person named submitted an application for consideration of force majeure-exceptional circumstances in the calculation of his provisional single payment entitlements as a result of TB restriction of his herd in 2000 and 2001.
Following an examination of the pattern of production, the inward and outward movements recorded on the cattle movement monitoring system and the premia eligibility of the animals present on the holding during the reference years. The single payment unit advised the person named that the circumstances outlined by him did not satisfy the force majeure-exceptional circumstances criteria laid down in Article 40 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003.
The person named appealed this decision to the independent single payment appeals committee who carried out a full review of the circumstances of the case. The recommendation of the appeals committee was that the decision taken by the single payment unit should be upheld.