The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Stage II) Designation (Amendment) Order 2001

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order amends the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Stage II) Order 2000 (“the principal Order” which designated areas in Breckland, Clun, the North Peak, the Suffolk River Valleys and the Test Valley as environmentally sensitive areas.

The Order amends, with effect from 15th October 2001, some of the rates of payments to be made by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, pursuant to a management agreement made under section 18(3) of the Agriculture Act 1986 (article 3).

No Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared in respect of this Order.