Article 19 of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115 allows Member States to retain up to 3 % of the direct payments to be paid to a farmer to support the farmers’ contribution to a risk management tool. A Member State deciding to make use of that option has to apply it to all beneficiaries of direct payments in a given year. Experience shows that only very few Member States make use of that option. Discussions with the Member States have shown that the lack of risk management tools, whether set up by Member States or available through private insurance, available for all farmers receiving direct payments, is an obstacle to the implementation of that Article. In order to increase the uptake and use of that option, it is necessary to amend that Article 19 so that its implementation is more flexible and to adapt it to the existing risk management tools in Member States. As a result of that amendment, Member States deciding to use the option to retain up to 3 % of the direct payments to be paid to a farmer as farmers’ contribution to risk management tools should be able to decide whether it applies to all farmers receiving direct payments in a given year, or whether it applies to the farmers for whom a risk management tool exists in a given year, on the condition that their decision corresponds to the risk management tools in place.
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