Council Regulation (EC) No. 73/2009 establishing common rules for direct support schemes for farmers under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers, amending Regulations (EC) No. 1290/2005, (EC) No. 247/2006, (EC) No. 378/2007 and repealing Regulation (EC) No. 1782/2003.

This Regulation sets out common rules for direct support schemes for farmers under the common agricultural policy. In particular it establishes: (a) common rules on direct payments; (b) an income support scheme for farmers (the single payment scheme); (c) a transitional simplified income support scheme for farmers in the new European Union Member States; and (d) support schemes for farmers producing rice, starch potatoes, protein crops, nuts, seeds, cotton, sugar, fruit and vegetables, sheepmeat and goatmeat and beef and veal.