For the purposes of this Regulation, the following definitions shall apply:
‘permanent crop’ means a crop not grown in rotation, other than permanent grassland, which occupies the soil for a long period and yields crops over several years;
‘parcel planted’ means an agricultural parcel, as defined in point (1) of the second paragraph of Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1122/2009 of 30 November 2009 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 as regards cross-compliance, modulation and the integrated administration and control system, under the direct support schemes for farmers provided for that Regulation, as well as for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards cross-compliance under the support scheme provided for the wine sector 7, planted with one of the permanent crops referred to in Article 1(1) of this Regulation;
‘planted area’ means the area of the parcels planted with a homogeneous plantation of the relevant permanent crop, rounded to the nearest 0,1 hectare (ha);
‘harvest year’ means the calendar year in which the harvest begins;
‘density’ means the number of plants by hectare;
‘usual planting period’ means the period of the year when permanent crops are usually planted starting in mid-autumn and finishing by mid-spring of the following year;
‘planting year’ means the first year where the plant has vegetative development after the day on which it is installed on its definitive production place;
‘age’ means the number of years since the planting year, which shall be considered to be year 1;
‘dessert apple tree, dessert pear tree and dessert peach tree’ means apple tree plantations, pear tree plantations and peach tree plantations, except those specifically intended for industrial processing. Where it is not possible to identify the plantations intended for industrial processing, the correspondent areas shall be included under this category;
‘vines for other purposes’ means all areas under vines to be included in the vineyard register as established under Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 436/2009 of 26 May 2009 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 479/2008 as regards the vineyard register, compulsory declarations and the gathering of information to monitor the wine market, the documents accompanying consignments of wine products and the wine sector registers to be kept 8;
‘dual-purpose grapes’ means grapes from vine varieties listed in the classification of vine varieties drawn up by Member States in accordance with Article 120a(2) to (6) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation) 9 that are produced, for the same administrative unit, both as wine grape varieties and, as the case may be, as table grape varieties, varieties for the production of dried grapes or varieties for the production of wine spirits;
‘combined crops’ means a combination of crops occupying a parcel of land at the same time.