Since the agricultural area managed by small farmers is limited and penalties are in general low for small farmers, the application of penalties could lead to disproportionate burden for Member States’ administrations. Therefore, small farmers exempted from conditionality controls should also be exempted from the application of administrative penalties for non-compliance with conditionality requirements.
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