Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 637/2008 and Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009

[F1[F2[F3ANNEX XU.K.

Textual Amendments

F1Regulation revoked (E.) (1.1.2024) by The Agriculture (Delinked Payments and Consequential Provisions) (England) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1430), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 3 para. 1 Table 1 (with Sch. 3 Pt. 2)

F2Substituted by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1155 of 15 February 2017 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) No 639/2014 as regards the control measures relating to the cultivation of hemp, certain provisions on the greening payment, the payment for young farmers in control of a legal person, the calculation of the per unit amount in the framework of voluntary coupled support, the fractions of payment entitlements and certain notification requirements relating to the single area payment scheme and the voluntary coupled support, and amending Annex X to Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council.

F3Annex 10 omitted (W.) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Direct Payments to Farmers and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1556), regs. 1(2)(a), 7(26); Annex 10 omitted (E.) (1.1.2021 in relation to an application for direct payments made in 2021 or in any subsequent year) by virtue of The Direct Payments to Farmers and Cross-Compliance (Simplifications) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1387), regs. 1(1), 5(10) (with reg. 1(2)); and Annex 10 omitted (N.I.) (25.2.2021) by virtue of The Direct Payments to Farmers (Simplifications) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/42), regs. 1(1), 4(8)

Conversion and weighting factors referred to in Article 46(3) U.K.

Features			Conversion factor (m/tree to m ² )	Weighting factor	Ecological focus area (if both factors are applied)
Land lying fallow (per 1 m ² )			n.a.	1	1 m ²
Terraces (per 1 m)			2	1	2 m ²
Landscape features:
	Hedges/wooded strips/trees in line (per 1 m)		5	2	10 m ²
	Isolated tree (per tree)		20	1,5	30 m ²
	Field copses (per 1 m ² )		n.a.	1,5	1,5 m ²
	Ponds (per 1 m ² )		n.a.	1,5	1,5 m ²
	Ditches (per 1 m)		5	2	10 m ²
	Traditional stone walls (per 1 m)		1	1	1 m ²
	Other features not listed above but protected under GAEC7, SMR 2 or SMR 3 (per 1 m ² )		n.a.	1	1 m ²
Buffer strips and field margins (per 1 m)			6	1,5	9 m ²
Hectares of agro-forestry (per 1 m ² )			n.a.	1	1 m ²
Strips of eligible hectares along forest edges (per 1 m)
		Without production	6	1,5	9 m ²
		With production	6	0,3	1,8 m ²
[F4Areas with short rotation coppice (per 1 m ² )			n.a.	0,5	0,5 m ^2]
Afforested areas [F5as referred to in Article 32(2)(b)(ii)] (per 1 m ² )			n.a.	1	1 m ²
Areas with catch crops or green cover (per 1 m ² )			n.a.	0,3	0,3 m ²
[F4Areas with nitrogen fixing crops (per 1 m ² )			n.a.	1	1 m ^2]
[F6Areas with Miscanthus			n.a.	0,7	0,7 m ²
Areas with Silphium perfoliatum			n.a.	0,7	0,7 m ²
Land lying fallow for melliferous plants (pollen and nectar rich species)			n.a.	1,5	1,5 m ^2]

Textual Amendments

F4Substituted by Regulation (EU) 2017/2393 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2017 amending Regulations (EU) No 1305/2013 on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), (EU) No 1306/2013 on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy, (EU) No 1307/2013 establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy, (EU) No 1308/2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and (EU) No 652/2014 laying down provisions for the management of expenditure relating to the food chain, animal health and animal welfare, and relating to plant health and plant reproductive material.

F5Words in Annex 10 omitted (S.) (10.11.2022) by virtue of The Rural Support (Simplification and Improvement) (Scotland) (No. 2) Regulations 2022 (S.S.I. 2022/279), regs. 1, 2(3)

F6Inserted by Regulation (EU) 2017/2393 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 December 2017 amending Regulations (EU) No 1305/2013 on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), (EU) No 1306/2013 on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy, (EU) No 1307/2013 establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy, (EU) No 1308/2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and (EU) No 652/2014 laying down provisions for the management of expenditure relating to the food chain, animal health and animal welfare, and relating to plant health and plant reproductive material.

Conversion and weighting factors referred to in Article 46(3) to be applied to features included in the equivalent practices as listed in Section III of Annex IX U.K.

Equivalent ecological focus area	Similar standard ecological focus area	Conversion factor	Weighting factor	Ecological focus area (if both factors are applied)
(1) Ecological set-aside (per 1 m²)	Land lying fallow	n.a.	1	1 m ²
(2) Creation of ‘buffer zones’ (per 1 m)	Buffer strips and field margins	6	1,5	9 m ²
(3) Management of uncultivated buffer strips and field margins (per 1 m)	Buffer strips and field margins	6	1,5	9 m ²
(4) Borders, in-field strips and patches:
Borders, in-field strips (per 1 m)	Buffer strips and field margins	6	1,5	9 m ²
Patches (per 1 m ² )	Field copses	n.a.	1,5	1,5 m ²
(5) Management of landscape features:
Isolated tree (per tree)	Isolated tree	20	1,5	30 m ²
Trees in line (per 1 m)	Hedges/wooded strips/trees in line	5	2	10 m ²
Group of trees/Field copses (per 1 m ² )	Field copses	n.a.	1,5	1,5 m ²
Hedgerows (per 1m)	Hedges/wooded strips/trees in line	5	2	10 m ²
Riparian woody vegetation (per 1m)	Hedges/wooded strips/trees in line	5	2	10 m ²
Terraces (per 1m)	Terraces	2	1	2 m ²
Stone walls (per 1m)	Traditional stone walls	1	1	1 m ²
Ditches (per 1m)	Ditches	5	2	10 m ²
Ponds (per 1 m ² )	Ponds	n.a.	1,5	1,5 m ²
(6) Keeping arable peaty or wet soils under grass (no use of fertilisers and no use of plant protection products) (per 1 m²)	Land lying fallow	n.a.	1	1 m ²
(7) Production on arable land with no use of fertiliser and/or plant protection products, and not irrigated, not sown with the same crop two years in a row (per 1 m²)	Areas with short rotation coppice; Strips along forest edges with production; Areas with nitrogen-fixing crops	n.a.	0,3 0,7 for nitrogen-fixing crops	0,3 m² 0,7 m²
(8) Conversion of arable land into permanent grassland (per 1 m²)	Land lying fallow	n.a.	1	1 m ^{2 ]]]}

Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the CouncilShow full title

[F1[F2[F3ANNEX XU.K.

Conversion and weighting factors referred to in Article 46(3) U.K.

Conversion and weighting factors referred to in Article 46(3) to be applied to features included in the equivalent practices as listed in Section III of Annex IX U.K.

(1) Ecological set-aside (per 1 m 2 )

(2) Creation of ‘buffer zones’ (per 1 m)

(3) Management of uncultivated buffer strips and field margins (per 1 m)

(4) Borders, in-field strips and patches:

(5) Management of landscape features:

(6) Keeping arable peaty or wet soils under grass (no use of fertilisers and no use of plant protection products) (per 1 m 2 )

(7) Production on arable land with no use of fertiliser and/or plant protection products, and not irrigated, not sown with the same crop two years in a row (per 1 m 2 )

(8) Conversion of arable land into permanent grassland (per 1 m 2 )

(1) Ecological set-aside (per 1 m²)

(6) Keeping arable peaty or wet soils under grass (no use of fertilisers and no use of plant protection products) (per 1 m²)

(7) Production on arable land with no use of fertiliser and/or plant protection products, and not irrigated, not sown with the same crop two years in a row (per 1 m²)

(8) Conversion of arable land into permanent grassland (per 1 m²)