The new rules will include value sharing clauses to be negotiated by every product sector, and give farmers the right to ask for a written contract for the first time (unless trading with SMEs); Simpler risk management tools to help farmers, including a sector-specific income stabilisation tool and improvements to insurance schemes that will allow compensation of up to 70% for farmers whose production or income is cut by at least 20%; Clearer rules governing intervention in markets, allowing the Commission to act rapidly to address market failures without having to use public intervention or private storage measures; Greater flexibility for Member States to support specific sectors of economic, social or environmental importance through ...[+++]voluntary coupled support, even when these sectors are not in crisis; Clearer rules on support for farmers, notably through more flexibility on the definition of active farmers and stronger incentives for young farmers, with an increase in additional payments from 25% to 50% and guaranteeing all young farmers the right to the full five-year allowance for these payments, regardless of when they apply for them within their first five years of their setting-up; Improved environmental measures including simpler rules on crop diversification and the addition of three new types of ecological focus area focused on nitrogen-fixing crops, giving farmers and national authorities more options to suit their particular circumstances.

(36) In order to ensure the efficient application of the crop-specific payment for cotton, the power to adopt certain acts should be delegated to the Commission in respect of establishing rules and conditions for the authorisation of land and varieties for the purposes of the crop specific payment for cotton; rules on the conditions for the granting of that payment, on the eligibility requirements and the agronomic practices; criteria for the approval of inter-branch org ...[+++]anisations; obligations for producers; and rules governing the situation where the approved inter-branch organisation does not satisfy those criteria.

3. In order to ensure an efficient management of the crop-specific payment for cotton, the Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 55 concerning rules and conditions for the authorisation of land and varieties for the purposes of the crop specific payment for cotton.

5. In order to make the application of the crop-specific payment for cotton possible , the Commission shall be empowered to adopt delegated acts in accordance with Article 55 concerning rules on the conditions for the granting of that payment, on the eligibility requirements and on agronomic practices.

7. In order to ensure an efficient and targeted use of the Union Funds and in order to ensure the efficient administration of the crop-specific schemes, the Commission may, by means of delegated acts, adopt rules on the minimum areas and specific rules relating to the sowing and cultivation of crops referred to in this Section. 8. In order to establish a list of hemp varieties eligible for direct payments and to preserve public he ...[+++]alth, the Commission shall, by means of delegated acts, adopt rules making the granting of payments subject to the use of certified seeds of certain varieties and providing for the procedure for the determination of hemp varieties referred to in Article 87(4).

3. Where, in accordance with Article 67, a Member State decides to integrate the protein crop premium provided for in this Section into the single payment scheme, the Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, reduce the maximum guaranteed area referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article in proportion to the protein crops amount corresponding to that Member State in Annex XII.