Member States may decide to reduce the amounts of payments which would, but for this paragraph, be granted to farmers in respect of a given calendar year in case where: the labour force used on their holdings during that calendar year, expressed in annual work units, falls short of limits to be determined by the Member States, and/or the overall prosperity of their holdings during that calendar year, expressed in the form of standard gross marging corresponding to the average situation of either given region or a smaller geographic entity, rises above limits to be decided by Member States, and/or th total amounts of payments granted under support schemes in respect of a calendar year exceed limits to be decided by Member States.
The number of persons employed corresponds to the number of annual working units (AWU), that is to say, the number of full-time workers employed during one year with part-time and seasonal workers being fractions of AWU.
