30.12.2005 Official Journal of the European Union L 347/61 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2184/2005 of 23 December 2005 amending Regulations (EC) No 796/2004 and (EC) No 19732004 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 of 29 September 2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers and amending Regulations (EEC) No 2019/93, (EC) No 1452/2001, (EC) No 1453/2001, (EC) No 1454/2001, (EC) No 1868/94, (EC) No 1251/1999, (EC) No 1254/1999, (EC) No 1673/2000, (EEC) No 2358/71 and (EC) No 2529/2001 (!), and in particular of Article 7(1), 24(1), 145(c), (), (m), (n), (p), (r), thereof, Whereas: (1)  Following the introduction of the support schemes for cotton, olive oil and tobacco into the single payment scheme, Commission Regulation (EC) No 796/2004 of 21 April 2004 laying down detailed rules for the imple- mentation of cross-compliance, modulation and the inte- grated administration and control system provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers (?) needs to be amended in several respects, in particular with regard to the appli- cation procedure and the control measures to be carried out with regard to those aid schemes. Moreover, the provisions of that Regulation need to be clarified with regard to certain aspects. (2)  There is a need to clarify the concept of the term ‘agri- cultural parcel’ for the purpose of the application of Regulation (EC) No 7962004 as referring to a continuous area of land on which a single crop group is cultivated by a single farmer. Such definition read in conjunction with Article 49(3) of that Regulation should make it clear, however, that crops of different crop groups may be cultivated on the same continuous area of land where the different aid schemes so allow. In such cases the same area would have to be taken into account as several agricultural parcels. () OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 118/2005 (O] L 24, 27.1.2005, p. 15). () OJ L 141, 30.4.2004, p. 18. Regulation as last amended by Regu- lation (EC) No 1954/2005 (O] L 314, 30.11.2005, p. 10). G) Due to the particularities of olive parcels, there is a need to provide for a particular definition in that respect. In accordance with Article 66(2) of Regulation (EC) No 796/2004, the non-respect of various cross-compliance obligations, all falling within the same area of cross- compliance within the meaning of Article 2(31) of that Regulation, are to be considered as one non-compliance when fixing the respective sanctions. It should be clarified that the non-respect of the obligations for indi- vidual farmers in the context of the maintenance of land under permanent pasture referred to in Article 4 of that Regulation fall within the same area of cross-compliance as the respect of the ‘good agricultural and environmental condition’. The respective definitions should be adapted accordingly. Any specific information relating to the production of cotton, olive oil and tobacco should be requested as part of the single application. Farmers are furnished with pre-printed application forms and graphic material. Whilst farmers should indicate the correct size of the area if the pre-printed material is incorrect, this would be very difficult in respect of the size of the area resulting from changes of the positioning of olive trees. In that respect the obligation of the farmer to indicate any changes regarding the positioning of the olive trees should suffice to give the competent authority the necessary information to re-calculate the exact resulting size of the area. In accordance with Article 14(2) of Regulation (EC) No 796/2004, the Member States may derogate from certain provisions concerning the single application during the first year of application of the single payment scheme. That derogation should also apply whenever new elements are introduced into the single application scheme. The cross-checks to be carried out on the single appli- cation should be extended to certain particular checks with regard to various conditions to be respected by the farmer when applying for the crop specific payment for cotton.