Commentary on provisions of Act Section 1: Incorporation of EU legislation governing the CAP direct payment schemes
The purpose of Section 1 is to incorporate EU legislation governing the 2020 CAP direct payment schemes into domestic law.
	Subsection (1) brings the EU legislation governing the CAP direct payment schemes for claim year 2020 into domestic law on exit day.
	Subsection (2) clarifies that the body of law referred to in subsection (1) is the legislation as it has effect in EU law immediately before exit day in so far as it is concerned with claim year 2020, excepting any amendments made by the EU before this time concerned with giving effect to the WA.
	Subsection (3) specifies the legislation being incorporated into UK law under subsection (1) and, in particular, specifies that the Horizontal Regulation (Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013) and regulations made under it will only form part of domestic law as far as they relate to the CAP direct payment schemes.
	Subsection (4) specifies that the EU legislation being incorporated is in the English language version.
	Subsection (5) excludes the provisions in this section from having any impact on matters relating to the previous claim year (year 2019) or earlier claim years.
	Subsection (6) ensures continuity between January 2020 and the rest of the claim year in 2020 by treating the incorporated EU legislation as having formed part of domestic law from 1 January 2020. In relation to the 2020 claim year, farmers will be governed by EU law for January 2020 and by domestic law thereafter but this provision means that the timeframe for compliance under the 2020 scheme will be treated as starting from the beginning of the claim year on 1 January 2020.
	Subsection (7) defines terminology used under this section.