A new farmer means a farmer who started farming in calendar year 2013 or any subsequent year and who applies for a basic payment no later than two years after the calendar year in which he started farming.

In case of natural person, the new farmer must not have engaged in any agricultural activity in his own name or for his own account, or control over a legal person engaged in an agricultural activity in the five years before the start of the new agricultural activity; the verification of the start of the agricultural activity is carried out by examining or the date of opening of the VAT (in the case of VAT already present but active in a field other than agriculture, the date of extension of the activity to the agricultural system) or Inps registration as a direct grower, IAP, settler or sharecropper.

In the case of a legal person the new farmer (natural or legal person) who exercises control over the legal person must not have exercised any agricultural activity in his own name and on his own account, control over a legal person engaged in an agricultural activity during the five years preceding the commencement of the new agricultural activity; verification of the commencement of the agricultural activity shall be carried out by examining the date of the public deed of incorporation of the company to be indicated in the request for access to the national reserve.