Under EU legislation, in order to draw down his or her full single payment, an applicant must declare an eligible hectare to accompany each entitlement. This requirement was set out clearly in the documentation supplied to farmers on a number of occasions.
While the person named had established 46.77 entitlements during the reference period, the application received from him on 16 May 2005 declared a total of 37.92 eligible hectares.
Therefore, the payment which issued to the person on 27 January 2006 represents the full amount due, based on the area declared on his single payment scheme application.
If the person named declares sufficient land on his 2006 single payment application, he will be in a position to claim full entitlements in respect of the 2006 scheme year.