Article 11

1. A transferor of a farm shall: stop all commercial farming activity definitively; he may, however, continue non-commercial farming and retain the use of the buildings, be not less than 55 years old but not yet of normal retirement age at the time of transfer, and have practised farming for the 10 years preceding transfer. 2. The transferee of a farm shall: succeed the transferor as the head of the agricultural holding or take over all or part of the land released. The economic viability of the transferee's holding must be improved within a period and in compliance with conditions to be defined in terms of, in particular, the transferee's occupational skill and competence and the surface area and volume of work or income, according to the region and type of production, possess adequate occupational skill and competence, and undertake to practise farming on the agricultural holding for not less than five years. 3. A farm worker shall: stop all farm work definitively, be not less than 55 years old but not yet of normal retirement age, have devoted at least half of his working time as a family helper or farm worker to farm work during the preceding five years, have worked on the transferor's agricultural holding for at least the equivalent of two years full-time during the four-year period preceding the early retirement of the transferor, and belong to a social security scheme. 4. A non-farming transferee may be any other person or body who takes over released land to use it for non-agricultural purposes, such as forestry or the creation of ecological reserves, in a manner compatible with protection or improvement of the quality of the environment of the countryside. 5. The conditions laid down in this Article shall be applied throughout the period during which the transferor receives early retirement support.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-08 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.