Regulation (EU) No. 228/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down specific measures for agriculture in the outermost regions of the Union and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No. 247/2006.

This Regulation lays down specific measures for agriculture to mitigate the difficulties caused by extreme remoteness, specifically remoteness, isolation, small surface areas, terrain, difficult climate and economic dependence on a limited number of products of the outermost regions of the European Union, referred to in Article 349 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union. These measures are intended to meet the following objectives: (a) guaranteed supply to the outermost regions of products essential for human consumption or for processing; (b) securing the long-term future and development of the livestock and crop-diversification sectors in the outermost regions; (c) maintaining the development and strengthening the competitiveness of traditional agricultural activities in the outermost regions. The Regulation stipulates that for each outermost region a Programme of Options Specifically Relating to Remoteness and Insularity 5POSEI) shall be established.