1. Member States may, however, apply the aid scheme to part-time farmers who derive at least 50 % of their total income from farming, forestry, tourism, craft activities or activities for maintaining the countryside which benefit from public aid, carried out on the holding, provided that the proportion of income deriving directly from farming on the holding is not less than 25 % of the farmer's total income and that off-farm activities do not account for more than half the farmer's total working time.
2. The mid-term and ex post evaluations shall deal with the specific questions for the rural development programming document in question and with common evaluation questions relevant at Community level. The latter shall involve the living conditions and structure of the rural population, employment and income from farm activities or off-farm activities, agricultural structures, agricultural commodities, quality, competitiveness, forest resources and environment.
