adverse climatic event — weather conditions, such as frost, storms and hail, ice, heavy rain or severe drought, which can be assimilated to a natural disaster (h)

agricultural area — any area taken up by arable land, permanent grassland and permanent pasture or permanent crops as defined in Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 (f)

animal diseases — diseases mentioned in the list of animal diseases established by the World Organisation for Animal Health or in the Annex to Council Decision 2009/470/EC Council Decision 2009/470/EC of 25 May 2009 on expenditure in the veterinary field (OJ L 155, 18.6.2009, p. 30). (i)

beneficiary — borrowed from another act; this instrument states no meaning of its own 1.

cluster — a grouping of independent undertakings, including start-ups, small, medium and large undertakings as well as advisory bodies and/or research organisations - designed to stimulate economic/ innovative activity by promoting intensive interactions, the sharing of facilities and the exchange of knowledge and expertise, as well as contributing effectively to knowledge transfer, networking and information dissemination among the undertakings in the cluster (q)

community-led local development strategy — borrowed from another act; this instrument states no meaning of its own 1.

completed operation — borrowed from another act; this instrument states no meaning of its own 1.

economic losses — any additional cost incurred by a farmer as a result of exceptional measures taken by the farmer with the objective of reducing supply on the market concerned or any substantial loss of production (g)

environmental incident — a specific occurrence of pollution, contamination or degradation in the quality of the environment which is related to a specific event and is of limited geographical scope; but does not cover general environmental risks not connected with a specific event, such as climate change or atmospheric pollution (j)

farmer — borrowed from another act; this instrument states no meaning of its own 3.

farmer — borrowed from another act; this instrument states no meaning of its own 2.

financial instruments — borrowed from another act; this instrument states no meaning of its own 1.

fixed costs — the costs incurred for entering a supported quality scheme and the annual contribution for participating in that scheme, including, where necessary, expenditure on checks required to verify compliance with the specifications of the scheme. For the purposes of this Article 3.

forest — an area of land spanning more than 0,5 hectares with trees higher than 5 meters and a canopy cover of more than 10 percent, or trees able to reach these thresholds in situ; and does not include land that is predominantly under agricultural or urban land use, subject to paragraph 2 (r)

measure — a set of operations contributing to one or more of the Union priorities for rural development (c)

mutual fund — a scheme accredited by the Member State in accordance with its national law for affiliated farmers to insure themselves, whereby compensation payments are made to affiliated farmers for economic losses caused by the outbreak of adverse climatic events or an animal or plant disease or pest infestation or an environmental incident, or for a severe drop in their income 3.

operation — borrowed from another act; this instrument states no meaning of its own 1.

programme — borrowed from another act; this instrument states no meaning of its own 1.

public expenditure — borrowed from another act; this instrument states no meaning of its own 1.

region — a territorial unit corresponding to level 1 or 2 of the Nomenclature of territorial units for statistics (NUTS level 1 and 2) within the meaning of Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council Regulation (EC) No 1059/2003 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 May 2003 on the establishment of a common classification of territorial units for statistics (NUTS) (OJ L 154, 21.6.2003, p. 1). (b)

SMEs — borrowed from another act; this instrument states no meaning of its own 1.

support rate — the rate of public contribution to an operation (d)

transaction cost — an additional cost linked to fulfilling a commitment, but not directly attributable to its implementation or not included in the costs or income foregone that are compensated directly; and which can be calculated on a standard cost basis (e)

young farmer — a person who is no more than 40 years of age at the moment of submitting the application, possesses adequate occupational skills and competence and is setting up for the first time in an agricultural holding as head of that holding (n)