Weather conditions and the resulting impact on conditions in agricultural areas may prevent farmers and other beneficiaries from complying with the requirements of the GAEC standards, such as time limits and periods for operations, in a given year. To avoid a situation where farmers faced with such requirements are obliged, for example, to sow crops by a certain date when the weather conditions in a given year do not permit the necessary operations to be performed, or only with a serious negative impact on the soil, such as soil compaction, Member States should, when implementing minimum standards concerning good agricultural and environmental condition pursuant to Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, be able to provide for temporary derogations from those requirements. Such temporary derogations should be limited in their scope to farmers and other beneficiaries or to areas affected by the weather conditions concerned and should be applied by Member States only for as long as they are strictly necessary.
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