L141/18 Official Journal of the European Union 30.4.2004 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 796/2004 of 21 april 2004 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of cross-compliance, modulation and the integrated administration and control system provided for in of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 of 29 September 2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers and amending Regulations (EEC) No 2019/93, (EC) No 1452/2001, (EC) No 1453/2001, (EC) No 1454/2001, (EC) 1868/94, (EC) No 1251/1999, (EC) No 1254/1999, (EC) No 1673/2000, (EEC) No 2358/71 and (EC) No 2529/2001 (), and in particular Articles 7(1), 10(3), 24(2), 34(2), 52(2), 145(b), (@), (d), (g), (), k), (1), (m), (), (p), thereof, Whereas: (1) Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 introduced the single pay- ment scheme as well as certain other direct payment schemes. At the same time it merged several existing direct payment schemes. Moreover, it establishes a principle according to which direct payments to a farmer who does not comply with certain conditions in the areas of public, animal and plant health, environment and animal welfare (‘cross-compliance’) shall be subject to reductions or exclusions. (2)  The direct payment schemes first introduced as a result of the reform of the common agricultural policy in 1992 and further developed under the Agenda 2000 measures have been subjected to an integrated administration and control system (hereinafter referred to as ‘integrated system’). That system has proven to be an effective and efficient means for the implementation of direct payment schemes. Regu- lation (EC) No 17822003 builds upon the basis of that integrated system and submits to it the management and control both of the direct payment schemes set up by it and the adherence to the cross-compliance obligations. (3) It is therefore appropriate to repeal Commission Regula- tion (EC) No 2419/2001 of 11 December 2001 laying () OJL 270, 21.10.2003, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 (O] L 5, 9.1.2004, p. 8). (4) ) down detailed rules for applying the integrated administra- tion and control system for certain Community aid schemes established by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3508/92 (?) and to base this Regulation on the prin- ciples as established by Regulation (EC) No 2419/2001. For reasons of clarity, it is appropriate to provide for cer- tain definitions. Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 provides, as part of the cross-compliance conditions, for certain obligations of the Member States on the one hand and individual farmers on the other hand, as regards the maintenance of permanent pasture. It is necessary to lay down the details for the deter- mination of the ratio of permanent pasture and agricul- tural land that has to be maintained and to provide for the individual obligations at the level of farmers to be respected where it is established that that proportion is decreasing to the detriment of land under permanent pasture. For the sake of effective control and to prevent the submis- sion of multiple aid applications to different Paying Agen- cies within one Member State, the Member States should provide for a single system to record the identity of farm- ers submitting aid applications subject to the integrated system. Detailed rules are needed with regard to the system for the identification of agricultural parcels to be operated by the Member States in accordance with Article 20 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003. According to that provision use has to be made of computerised geographic information sys- tem techniques (GIS). It is necessary to clarify at which level the system should operate and the level of details of information that has to be available in the GIS. Moreover, the introduction of an area payment for nuts in Chapter 4 of Title IV of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2203 leads to the need for the introduction of a new layer of information in the GIS. However, it is appropriate to release those Member States from this obligation where the maximum guaranteed area is 1 500 ha or less and to pro- vide for a higher control rate for on-the-spot checks instead. OJ L 327, 12.12.2001, p. 11. Regulation as last amended by Regu- lation (EC) No 1182004 (O] L 17, 24.1.2004, p. 7).