The Common Agricultural Policy Basic Payment and Support Schemes Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2015

1. Introductory Text

2. 1. Title, commencement and interpretation

3. 2. Interpretation

4. PART 1 Basic Payment Scheme

   1. 3. Regions

   2. 4. Payment entitlements

   3. 5. Allocation of Payment Entitlements

   4. 6. Article 24(1)(c) of the Direct Payments Regulation shall be applied...

   5. 7. The limitations referred to in Article 24(3) of the Direct...

   6. 8. In accordance with Article 25(4) of the Direct Payments Regulation...

   7. 9. The decrease referred to in Article 25(7) of the Direct...

   8. 10. The initial unit value of payment entitlements as referred to...

   9. 11. Active farmers

   10. 12. Minimum eligible area of holding

   11. 13. For the purposes of Article 24(9) of the Direct Payments...

   12. 14. Date on which eligible land must be at farmer's disposal

   13. 15. Reductions

   14. 16. Short rotation coppice

5. PART 2 Young farmer scheme

   1. 17. Young farmer

6. PART 3 Greening

   1. 18. Calculation of greening payment

   2. 19. Crop diversification

   3. 20. Environmentally sensitive permanent grassland

   4. 21. Ecological focus areas

   5. 22. Revocations and savings

7. Signature

8. 1. SCHEDULE 1

      Ecological focus areas: Nitrogen-fixing crops for the purposes of Article 45(10) of the Direct Payments Delegated Regulation

      1. Beans (Vicia faba)

      2. Cowpeas (Vigna)

      3. Green beans (Phaseolus)

      4. Blue Lupin (Lupinus augustifolis)

      5. Yellow Lupin (Lupinus luteus)

      6. White Lupin (Lupinus albus)

      7. Peas (Pisum)

9. Explanatory Note