The Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1997

Amendment of the principal Regulations

10.  In Schedule 2 (management requirements in relation to set-aside land)—

(a) in Part A (management options for set-aside land), in paragraph 1(1)(b), for the word “condition” there shall be substituted the word “conditions”;

(b) in Part B (general management conditions applying to all set-aside land)—

(i) in paragraph 11, for sub-paragraph (2) there shall be substituted the following sub-paragraph—

“(2) In relation to set-aside land situated in Scotland, where a farmer has applied a non-selective herbicide to that set-aside land during the current set-aside period but not earlier than 1st May and not later than 14th July during that period, he shall not subsequently cut any green cover on that set-aside land before 15th July prior to the end of that period.”;

(ii) in paragraph 13(3) and (4), for “11(4)(a)” there shall be substituted “15(5)(a)”;

(iii) in paragraph 14(a), after the words “organic farmer” there shall be inserted the words “, at any time on or after 1st July prior to the end of the current set-aside period, and;”, and sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) shall be deleted; and

(iv) in paragraph 18(2), there shall be inserted at the beginning the words “Throughout the set-aside period”, and for the words “if that organic waste”, to the end of the sub-paragraph, there shall be substituted the following—

• “provided that the organic waste—

  (a)

  was produced on land which he farms as a single unit with the set-aside land;

  (b)

  is applied only where there is an existing green cover on the set-aside land; and

  (c)

  is applied in amounts which will not destroy that green cover.”;

(c) in Part C (special conditions applying to guaranteed set-aside land), in paragraph 23(1), after the words “period shall”, there shall be inserted the word “be”; and

(d) in Part D (exception relating to environmental transferred set-aside land), for paragraph 25(1) there shall be substituted—

“25.— (1) Throughout the set-aside period, a farmer may apply organic waste to an agricultural parcel of environmental transferred set-aside land where—

(a) that waste was created as a result of the maintenance of a tree, hedge, stream or ditch on or immediately adjoining that agricultural parcel;

(b) there is an existing green cover on that parcel; and

(c) the amount of organic waste to be applied will not destroy the green cover.”