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The Common Agricultural Policy Direct Payments and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2014
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4.—[F1(1) A farmer shall ensure that after harvesting a crop that from harvest until 15th January in the following year one of the following conditions is met on that land at any time—
(a)the stubble of the harvested crop remains in the land; or
(b)the land is sown with a crop which will take up nitrogen from the soil or, where soil or weather conditions prevent a subsequent crop from being sown, measures are put in place to prevent soil erosion.]
(2) The Department shall vary or suspend any of the requirements in sub paragraph (1) where in its opinion–
(a)the farmer has prepared the land as a seedbed but is unable to sow the crop within 10 days (because to do so would result in a breach of paragraph 5(2)) or
(b)an area is affected by extreme weather conditions which make it impracticable to comply.
(3) Where the Department has varied or suspended any requirements under sub paragraph (2), it shall publish directions to the farmers in the area concerned stating, with reasons, the details and duration of the variation or suspension, and the farmers shall comply with the requirements as varied in the directions.
F2(4) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
[F3(5) Sub-paragraph (1) does not apply in relation to any land between harvest and 15th January where—
(i)the land is used for a ploughing match and the farmer has received a Derogation from the Department; or
(ii)the land is ploughed as part of practice for a ploughing match.]
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F1Sch. 1 para. 4(1) substituted (1.8.2015) by The Common Agricultural Policy Direct Payments and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015 (S.R. 2015/286), regs. 1(1), 5(a)(i)
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