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)
F2Annex 2 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), 8(12); and Annex 2 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), 6(4) (with reg. 1(2)); and Annex 2 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), 5(4)
| Features | Conversion factor(m/tree to m2) | Weighting factor | Ecological focus area(if both factors are applied) | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Land lying fallow (per 1 m2) | n.a. | 1 | 1 m2 | ||
| Terraces (per 1 m) | 2 | 1 | 2 m2 | ||
| Landscape features: | |||||
| Hedges/wooded strips (per 1 m) | 5 | 2 | 10 m2 | ||
| Isolated tree (per tree) | 20 | 1,5 | 30 m2 | ||
| Trees in line (per 1 m) | 5 | 2 | 10 m2 | ||
| Group of trees/Field copses (per 1 m2) | n.a. | 1,5 | 1,5 m2 | ||
| Field margin (per 1 m) | 6 | 1,5 | 9 m2 | ||
| Ponds (per 1 m2) | n.a. | 1,5 | 1,5 m2 | ||
| Ditches (per 1 m) | 3 | 2 | 6 m2 | ||
| Traditional stone walls (per 1 m) | 1 | 1 | 1 m2 | ||
| Other features not listed above but protected under GAEC7, SMR 2 or SMR 3 (per 1 m2) | n.a. | 1 | 1 m2 | ||
| Buffer strips (per 1 m) | 6 | 1,5 | 9 m2 | ||
| Hectares of agro-forestry (per 1 m2) | n.a. | 1 | 1 m2 | ||
| Strips of eligible hectares along forest edges (per 1 m) | |||||
Without production With production | 6 6 | 1,5 0,3 | 9 m2 1,8 m2 | ||
| Areas with short rotation coppice (per 1 m2) | n.a. | 0,3 | 0,3 m2 | ||
| Afforested areas as referred to in Article 32(2)(b)(ii) (per m2) | n.a. | 1 | 1 m2 | ||
| Areas with catch crops or green cover (per 1 m2) | n.a. | 0,3 | 0,3 m2 | ||
| Areas with nitrogen fixing crops (per 1 m2) | n.a. | 0,3 | 0,3 m2’]] | ||
The conversion and weighting factors shall also apply to features included in the equivalent practices as listed in Section III of Annex IX that are the same as the features listed in this Annex and as specified in Article 45 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 639/2014 of 11 March 2014 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy and amending Annex X to that Regulation (OJ L 181, 20.6.2014, p. 1) for the sole purpose of the calculation of the ecological focus area of the holding as referred to in Article 46(1) of this Regulation.’