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The farm return
Table A, General information
How to register the holdings when the majority of the UAA is in an area Natura 2000 or an area linked to the Directive 2000/60/EC (article 38 of Regulation 1698/2005) but when the payment is granted through another article of Regulation 1698/2005 (e.g. article 39 Agri-environmental measures)?
How the accounting office should be recorded?
Table D, Number and value of livestock and related tables E, K and N
When a holding produces eggs under contract, how the data (number of laying hens and number of eggs) is recorded in tables D and K?
How should be animals under contract registered when the farmer has owned animals too?
How should be chicks registered in the farm return?
How to register bovine animals less than 12 months?
How to register male bovine animals?
How to register female bovine animals from 1 to 2 year old?
Table F, Costs and related tables G and K
Where feedingstuffs produced on the farm are to be registered?
How to register costs of fuels and lubricants produced on the farm?
Where should be registered costs for purchased grapes, which are used to produce wine and how should this wine production be registered?
Table G, Land and buildings, deadstock and circulating capital and related table L
How to record profits and/or losses of fixed assets?
Should depreciation of quotas be registered in table G?
What to do if it is not possible to enter the amount of circulating capital, because the farmer has not given any information?
How to register changes in the value of assets during the accounting year?
How to register milk quotas in table G?
Table J, Grants and Subsidies
How to register the support for the "Setting up of young farmers"?
How to register the payment for the reduction of sugar quota (Council Reg 1261/2007)?
Table K, Production (crops and animal products, livestock excluded)
How to register open field crops which are grown successively on a same area?
How to record area and production of market gardening crops (e.g. tomatoes and leaf vegetables) which are grown in rotation on the same area?
How to register quantities and output of permanent crops (apples) if for example the farm produces 50 tons of apples, of which 20 tons are sold as apples, 10 tons are sold as cider and 20 tons are sold as jam?
How to register the young plantations, which have not yet reached full production?
Under which heading in the Farm Return should asparagus be recorded?
How to register zero production caused by damage of crop?
Should the total production of manure be taken into consideration in table K or just the marketable one? If the manure is used on the farm should it be included as farm use?
If we have holdings producing grapes for selling (not wine), do we have to enter the production under K286 in 100 kg or as equivalent hectolitres of wine?
How to register the area cultivated for mushrooms?
How to deal with occasional letting of fodder areas?
How to register crops for green manure?
How to register winter crops?
Table L, Quotas and other rights
How to record the quantity of quotas?
The subsidies on dairy premium and additional payments are paid on the basis of the milk quota at the end of March. Regarding the production of milk what should be taken into account, the accounting year or the milk year referring to April year n - March year n+1?
How to register milk quotas in table L?
Table M, Direct payments for arable crops and beef
What should be registered in table M if the farmer did not receive payments during the accounting year?
How to estimate SAPS in table M if the farmer has not received the payment during the accounting year?
How to register Single Area Payment Scheme for new Member States?
How to register Direct aids according to Article 69 of the Council Regulation no. 1782/2003?
How to register the additional amount of aid according to Article 12 of the Council Regulation no. 1782/2003?
How to register the aid for energy crops (article 88 of Regulation 1782/2003, 45€/ha)?
General
What rules have to be followed by the RICA data to be prepared to conform the RICA-1 collection system?
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