S.I. No. 476/2026 - Agriculture Appeals Act 2001 (Amendment of Schedule) Regulations 2026

Notice of the making of this Statutory Instrument was published in

“Iris Oifigiúil” of 18th September, 2026.

I, MARTIN HEYDON, Minister for Agriculture, Food and the Marine, in exercise of the powers conferred on me by section 5 (2) of the Agriculture Appeals Act 2001 (No. 29 of 2001) (as adapted by the Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Alteration of Name of Department and Title of Minister) Order 2011 ( S.I. No. 455 of 2011 )), hereby make the following regulations:

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“SCHEDULE 1

Schemes

Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme (ACRES)

ACRES (Agri-Climate Rural Environment Scheme) Training Scheme

Afforestation Scheme 2023 – 2027

Afforestation Grant and Premium Scheme prior to 2023

Agri-Environment Options Scheme (AEOS)

Agri-Environment Training Scheme (AETS)

Animal Welfare, Recording and Breeding Scheme for Suckler Herds (AWRBS)

Areas of Natural Constraints (ANC)

Areas of Specific Constraint (Island Farming) scheme (ASC)

Baling Assistance Payment Scheme

Basic Income Support for Sustainability (BISS)

Basic Payment Scheme (BPS)

Beef Data Programme (BDP)

Beef Environmental Efficiency Programme (BEEP)

Beef Environmental Efficiency Programme - Suckler (BEEP-S)

Beef Exceptional Aid Measure (BEAM)

Beef Finisher Payment (BFP)

Beef Genomics Scheme (BGS)

Beef Data and Genomics Programme (BDGP)

Beef Welfare Scheme (BWS) 2024 onwards

Bio Energy Scheme

Biomethane Capital Grant Scheme

Biosecurity Targeted Advisory Service on Animal Health (TASAH) Scheme 2026

Burren Programme

BVD (Bovine Viral Diarrhoea) Financial Support Programme for Beef Breed Animals disclosed as BVD Positive, 2023 onwards

BVD (Bovine Viral Diarrhoea) Financial Support Programme for Dairy Breed Animals disclosed as BVD Positive, 2023 onwards

BVD (Bovine Viral Diarrhoea) Tag Testing transition to BVD Freedom, 2024 onwards

Calf Investment Scheme (CIS)

Climate Action Performance Payment Scheme

Climate Resilient Reforestation Pilot Scheme

CSP Dairy Beef Welfare Scheme 2024-2027

Collaborative Farming Grant Scheme

Complementary Income Support for Young Farmers (CIS-YF)

Complementary Redistributive Income Support for Sustainability (CRISS)

Cooley Flood Damage Scheme

Dairy-Beef Calf Programme

Dairy Efficiency Programme

Deer Tree Shelter, Hare and Deer Fencing Scheme

Depopulation Grants - TB Compensation Scheme

Disadvantaged Areas Scheme (DAS) excluding Land Parcel Identification System Review 2013 (LPIS Review 2013)

Early-Stage Support for Producer Organisations Scheme

Eco-Scheme

Farm Improvement Scheme (FIS)

Fodder Support Scheme (FSS)

Fodder Transport Support Measure

Forest Environment Protections Scheme (FEPS)

Forest Genetic Resources Reproductive Material: Seed Stand & Seed Orchard Scheme

Forest Road Scheme prior to 2023

Forest Roads Scheme 2023 – 2027

Forestry Knowledge Transfer Group Scheme 2023 onwards

Grant-Aid Scheme for Marts to facilitate their operation as Central Points of

Recording (CPRS)

Green, Low-Carbon, Agri-Environment Scheme (GLAS)

Greening Payment

Grassland Sheep Scheme (GSS)

Hardship Grants - TB Compensation Scheme

Horticulture Crisis Fund 2023

Horticulture Exceptional Payment Scheme (HEPS)

Income Supplement - TB Compensation Scheme

Installation Aid Scheme (IAS)

Interim Afforestation Scheme (Via General De Minimis) Scheme

Interim Forest Road Scheme (via General De Minimis) Scheme

Interim Reconstitution Scheme for Ash-dieback (via General De Minimis)

Innovative Forest Technology Scheme 2023 – 2027

Knowledge Transfer Programme (KT)

Long Established Young Farmers Scheme

Multi Species Sward Measure (MSSM) 2023 onwards

National Farm Safety Measure 2023 onwards

National Beef Welfare Scheme 2023

National Dairy Beef Weighing Scheme 2025 onwards

National Dairy Beef Welfare Scheme (NDBWS) 2024

National Liming Programme 2023

National Sheep Welfare Scheme 2024 onwards

Native Tree Area Scheme 2024 onwards

Native Woodland Conservation Scheme 2023 – 2027

Native Woodland Intervention for Remediation of Industrial Cutover

Peatlands – Pilot Scheme 2024 - 2027

Native Woodland Scheme

Neighbourwood Scheme 2023 - 2027

Nitrates Derogation Scheme

Non-valuation aspects of the On-Farm Valuation Scheme for TB and Brucellosis Reactors

On Farm Badger Bio-security Scheme

Organic Farming Scheme

Organic Processing Investment Grant Scheme

Pig Exceptional Payment Scheme (PEPS)

Pig Exceptional Payment Scheme 2 (PEPS 2)

Prevention and Restoration of Damage to Forests: Reconstitution of Woodland Scheme (Windblow)

Protein Aid Scheme

Protein/Cereal Mix (50/50) Crop Scheme

Protein (combi-crop) Scheme

Reconstitution and Underplanting Scheme (Ash Dieback)

Reconstitution of Woodland Scheme

Reconstitution of Woodland Scheme (Frost Damage)

Reconstitution of Woodland Scheme (Drought)

Reconstitution Scheme (Chalara Ash Dieback) 2014-2020

Reconstitution Ash Dieback Scheme 2023 - 2027

Red Clover Silage Measure (RCSM), 2023 onwards

Results-Based Environment Agri Pilot Programme (REAP)

Rural Environment Protection Scheme (REPS)

Scheme of Early Retirement from Farming

Scheme of Grant-Aid for the Development of the Organic Sector

Scheme of Investment Aid for Innovation and Diversification in Horticulture (Feasibility / Desk Studies) – excluding decisions in relation to applications for approval for inclusion in the scheme – 1st stage 2024 onwards

Scheme of Investment Aid for Innovation and Diversification in Horticulture (Capital Investments) excluding decisions in relation to applications for approval for inclusion in the scheme – 1st stage 2024 onwards

Scheme of Investment Aid for Process and Organisational Innovation in Horticulture for Large Enterprises - excluding decisions in relation to applications for approval for inclusion in the scheme – 1st stage 2025 onwards

Scheme of Grant-Aid for Improvements in Animal Welfare Standards (Sow Housing)

Scheme of Investment Aid for Farm Waste Management (FWM)

Scheme of Investment Aid for the Development of the Commercial Horticulture Sector (excluding decisions in relation to applications for approval for inclusion in the scheme – 1st stage)

Scheme of Investment Aid for the Improvement of Dairy Hygiene Standards (DHS)

Scheme of Investment Aid in Alternative Enterprises (Housing and Handling Facilities) (AES)

Scheme of Investment Aid for Demonstration On-Farm Waste Processing Facilities

Scheme of Investment Aid by Commercial Non-Primary Producers in the Mushroom Sector and for Peat Replacement by Commercial Mushroom Producers

Scheme of Investment Aid for Energy Efficiency, Automation and Processing by Commercial Mushroom Producers

Scheme of Investment Aid for the Seed Potato Sector and the Chipping Potato Sector

Scheme of Investment Aid for the Seed Potato Sector (2022)

Shannon Callows Flood Scheme 2023

Sheep Improvement Scheme

Sheep Welfare Scheme

Single Payment Scheme, excluding Article 37(2), 40 and 42 of Chapter 2 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and Land Parcel Identification System Review 2013 (LPIS Review 2013)

Sow Housing (Animal Welfare) Scheme

Soil Sampling and Analysis Programme

Straw Incorporation Measure (SIM)

Succession Planning Advice Grant

Suckler Carbon Efficiency Programme (SCEP)

Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme (TAMS) (RDP 2007-2013)

• (a) The Dairy Equipment Scheme

• (b) The Poultry Welfare Scheme

• (c) The Sheep Fencing/Mobile Handling Equipment Scheme

• (d) The Sow Housing Welfare Scheme

• (e) The Rainwater Harvesting Scheme, and

• (f) The Farm Safety Scheme

Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme II (TAMS II) (RDP 2014–2022)

• (a) The Animal Welfare, Safety and Nutrient Storage Scheme

• (b) The Dairy Equipment Scheme

• (c) The Low-Emission Slurry Spreading (LESS) Equipment Scheme

• (d) The Organic Capital Investment Scheme

• (e) The Pig and Poultry Investment Scheme

• (f) The Young Farmers Capital Investment Scheme, and

• (g) Tillage Capital Investment Scheme

Targeted Agricultural Modernisation Scheme 3 (TAMS 3) (RDP 2023-2027)

• (a) Animal Welfare and Nutrient Storage Scheme

• (b) Dairy Equipment Scheme

• (c) Low Emission Slurry Spreading Scheme

• (d) Nutrient Importation Storage Scheme (NISS)

• (e) Organic Capital Investment Scheme

• (f) Solar Capital Investment Scheme

• (g) Pig and Poultry Investment Scheme

• (h) Young Farmers Capital Investment Scheme

• (i) Tillage Capital Investment Scheme

• (j) Farm Safety Capital Investment Scheme, and

• (k) Women Farmers Capital Investment Scheme

The Scheme of EU aid for Producer Organisations in the Fruit and Vegetable Sector

Tillage Incentive Scheme

Tillage Sustainability Support Payment 2026

Traditional Farm Building Grant Scheme

Unharvested Crop Loss Support Scheme

Upland Sheep Payment Scheme

Veterinary Practice Capital Modernisation Scheme (VPCMS)

Weather Related Crop Loss Support Measure

Woodland Improvement Scheme 2023 - 2027

Woodland Improvement Scheme including Continuous Forestry Cover

Young Farmers Installation Scheme

Young Farmers Scheme”.

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GIVEN under my Official Seal,

9 September, 2026.

MARTIN HEYDON,

Minister of Agriculture, Food and the Marine.

EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Instrument and does not purport to be a legal interpretation.)

These Regulations have the purpose of updating Schedule 1 of the Act setting out the list of Schemes which may be referred to the Agriculture Appeals Office for appeal.