S.L. 639.10 Art. 3Setting the Farm Categorisation System and related benchmarks. 

(1) The Director shall publish, by means of a

Government notice in the Gazette, tables indicating the benchmarks to provide for the categorization of commercial holdings for each category of suitably defined activities attributable to commercial holdings, and said notice shall also provide benchmarks for determining the derived annual income of commercial holdings according to the standard outputs applicable to them;

Provided that in so doing the Director shall apply a suitably simplified methodology of calculating the derived annual income of commercial holdings.

(2) The studies underlying the determination referred to in sub-regulation (1) shall be updated periodically at the discretion of the Director by utilising suitable statistical tools, instruments and variables:

Provided that at the discretion of the Director, the Government notice shall also have other relevant information consistent with the methodology involved, such as the number of livestock units and the area of utilised agricultural land;

Provided further that the categorization of commercial holdings referred in this regulation shall be revised at least every five

(5) years.

(3) The tables referred in this regulation shall categorise the derived annual income from an agricultural holding into four (4) classes including all the commercial holdings in the following ranges:

(a) less than or equal to the minimum wage according to applicable laws;

(b) more than the minimum wage and less or equal to the midpoint between the minimum wage and the average basic wage for employees as reported by the National Statistics Office;

(c) more than the midpoint between the minimum wage and the average basic wage for employees as reported by the National Statistics Office, and less than or equal to the average basic wage for employees as reported by the National Statistics Office; and

(d) more than the average basic wage for employees as reported by the National Statistics Office.

(4) The activity categories shall differentiate between livestock and crop holdings, and include rationalisations to properly account for situations of mixed activity holdings, according to a notice published by the Director in the Gazette.