Article 1
1. Union aid shall be available, within the limits of Articles 2 and 5, to farmers for hectares of land situated in Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia and Finland which cannot be used for winter sowing or which already sown for the 2018/2019 marketing year harvest have been lost, due to heavy rainfalls and flooding occurred between August and October 2017 in these Member States provided that: (a) these hectares of land amount to at least 30 % of a farmer's total winter sowings area in the Member State concerned; (b) the farmers did not benefit, for the same loss, from any kind of national aid, insurance or aid financed by a Union contribution, other than that provided for by this Regulation. 2. The number of eligible hectares per farmer shall be established by the Member States concerned in accordance with the conditions laid down in paragraph 1.