This report shall specifically evaluate the potential impact of permitting the generalised conversion of plots used for fruit and vegetables into eligible areas under the single payment regime, especially in regions and areas that specialise in such production’.

26. Maintains that grubbed-up areas for which flat-rate compensation is to be paid must be able to be added to the areas eligible for the award of rights to uniform decoupled aid; believes that, when fixing the grubbing-up premiums and the single payment, the minimum environmental requirements should be considered in order to avoid land degradation; considers that Member States should be able to provide wine growers in the grubbing-up programme with additional support from the resources of the support and development programmes for the wine sector) or by applying the fluctuation mechanism and/or through the redivision of the national r ...[+++]eserve of single-payment rights so that producer support can reach the level of the national or regional direct decoupled payment; considers that no compensation can be paid for the grubbing-up of illegal plantations;

26. Maintains that grubbed-up areas for which flat-rate compensation is to be paid must be able to be added to the areas eligible for the award of rights to uniform decoupled aid; believes that, when fixing the grubbing-up premiums and the single payment, the minimum environmental requirements should be considered in order to avoid land degradation; considers that Member States should be able to provide wine growers in the grubbing-up programme with additional support from the resources of the support and development programmes for the wine sector) or by applying the fluctuation mechanism and/or through the redivision of the national r ...[+++]eserve of single-payment rights so that producer support can reach the level of the national or regional direct decoupled payment; considers that no compensation can be paid for the grubbing-up of illegal plantations;

28. Maintains that grubbed-up areas for which flat-rate compensation is to be paid will be able to be added to the areas eligible for the award of rights to uniform decoupled aid; believes that, when fixing the grubbing-up premiums and the single payment, the minimum environmental requirements should be considered in order to avoid land degradation; considers that Member States should be able to provide wine growers in the grubbing-up programme with additional support from the resources of the STPW (Support and Development Programmes for the Wine Sector) or by applying the fluctuation mechanism and/or through the redivision of the nati ...[+++]onal reserve of single-payment rights so that producer support can reach the level of the national or regional direct decoupled payment;

In those cases, Member States determine the eligible area according to objective criteria and in such a way as to ensure equal treatment between farmers.

calculation of the arithmetical average of that Member State's population and surface area shares of the total population and surface area of all the eligible Member States; if, however, a Member State's share of total population exceeds its share of total surface area by a factor of five or more, reflecting an extremely high population density, only the share of total population will be used for this step.