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By 1 August 2014, Member States shall decide that one or more of the following are to be considered to be ecological focus area: land lying fallow; terraces; landscape features, including such features adjacent to the arable land of the holding which, by way of derogation from Article 43(1) of this Regulation, may include landscape features that are not included in the eligible area in accordance with point (c) of Article 76(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013; buffer strips, including buffer strips covered by permanent grassland, provided that these are distinct from adjacent eligible agricultural area; hectares of agro-forestry that receive, or have received, support under Article 44 of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 and/or Article 23 of Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013; strips of eligible hectares along forest edges; areas with short rotation coppice with no use of mineral fertiliser and/or plant protection products; afforested areas referred to in point (b)(ii) of Article 32(2) of this Regulation; areas with catch crops, or green cover established by the planting and germination of seeds, subject to the application of weighting factors referred to in paragraph 3 of this Article; areas with nitrogen-fixing crops. With the exception of the areas of the holding referred to in points (g) and (h) of the first subparagraph of this paragraph, the ecological focus area shall be located on the arable land of the holding. In the case of areas mentioned in points (c) and (d) of the first subparagraph of this paragraph, the ecological focus area may also be adjacent to the arable land of the holding the farmer declared in accordance with point (a) of the first subparagraph of Article 72(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013.

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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.