The Agriculture (Cross compliance) (No. 2) Regulations 2009

Made: 20th December 2009

Laid before Parliament: 23rd December 2009

Coming into force: 15th January 2010

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Title, application and commencement

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Designation

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Standards of Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition

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Permanent pasture

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Competent control authorities

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Powers of authorised persons

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Obstruction

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Revocation

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SCHEDULE 1 — Standards of Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition

Specified provisions

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Soil Protection Review

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Overgrazing and unsuitable supplementary feeding

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Directions by the Secretary of State

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Management of land not in agricultural production

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Control of weeds

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“Hedgerows”

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Protection of hedgerows and watercourses

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Cutting or trimming hedgerows

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Stone walls

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SCHEDULE 2 — Circumstances where a breach of Schedule 1 is not non-compliance

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Signed

Dan Norris — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Environment Food and Rural Affairs — 2009-12-20

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations implement Commission Regulation (EC) No 1122/2009, which establishes cross-compliance requirements under Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009. They set out the requirements for claimants of subsidy under the single payment scheme. The requirements are set out in Schedule 1, and Schedule 2 lists exceptions from those requirements.

They revoke and replace S. I 2009/3264, where the period for casting up hedgebanks was misstated.

A full impact assessment has been prepared and placed in the libraries of both Houses of Parliament. It is available on the Defra website at www.defra.gov.uk.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S. I. 1072/1811.

[^f00002]: 1972 c. 68.

[^f00003]: OJ No L 30, 31.1.2009, p.16.

[^f00004]: OJ No L 316, 2.12.2009, p. 65.

[^f00005]: S. I. 2009/3264.

[^f00006]: 1959 c. 54. Section 1A was inserted into the Weeds Act 1959 by section 1 of the Ragwort Control Act 2003 (c.40).

[^f00007]: 1967 c. 10. The provisions of section 24 were extended to restocking notices by section 1 of the Forestry Act 1986 (c.30), which inserted sections 17A to 17C into the Forestry Act 1967. Section 24 was amended by S.I. 2006/780.

[^f00008]: 1979 c. 46.

[^f00009]: 1980 c. 66. Section 131A was inserted by the Rights of Way Act 1990 (c.24 ) section 1. Section 134 was substituted by the Rights of Way Act 1990 (c.24) section 1. Section 146 (5) (aa) was inserted by the Countryside and Rights of Way Act (c.37) section 69.

[^f00010]: 1981 c. 69. Section 28E(1) was substituted by the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c.37) section 75(1) Schedule 9 paragraph 1. Section 28P was substituted by the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c.37) section 75(1) Schedule 9 paragraph 1. Section 28P (6A) was inserted by the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (c.16) section 55.

[^f00011]: 1990 c. 8. Section 211 was amended by the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c.5) section 86.

[^f00012]: 1991 c. 57. Section 24(1) was amended by the Environment Act 1995 section 120 Schedule 22 paragraph 128.

[^f00013]: S. I. 1993/1366.

[^f00014]: S. I. 1997/1160. as amended by S.I. 2003/2155.

[^f00015]: S. I. 1999/2228 as amended by S.I. 2006/3106.

[^f00016]: S. I. 2006/2522.

[^f00017]: S. I. 2007/2003.

[^f00019]: 1965 c. 64.

[^f00020]: 2006 c. 26; with effect from 1st October 2008, the Commons Act 2006 (Commencement No. 4 and Savings) (England) Order 2008 (S.I. 2008/1960 (c.94)) commenced the relevant provisions of the Commons Act 2006 (and repealed the corresponding provisions of the Commons Registration Act 1965) in relation to seven pilot areas (being the registration areas in England, as at 1st October 2008, of the commons registration authorities specified in the Schedule to that Order).

[^f00021]: OJ No L 215, 30.7.92, p. 85. This Regulation has been repealed but schemes under it are still in existence.

[^f00022]: OJ No L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 80 as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 (OJ No L 277, 21.10.2005, p.1).

[^f00023]: 1949 c. 97 The Nature Conservancy’s powers under section 16 of this Act to enter into agreements with owners, lessees or occupiers of land within nature reserves were transferred to the Natural Environment Research Council by section 3 of the Science and Technology Act 1965 (c.4). They were then transferred to the Nature Conservancy Council by section 1 of the Nature Conservancy Council Act 1973 (c.54), and then to the Nature Conservancy Council for England by section 132 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c.43). That body was renamed English Nature by section 73 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c.37). Section 26 of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (c.16) provided for the transfer of English Nature’s functions in relation to such agreements to Natural England. Section 16 of the 1949 Act was amended by section 105(1) of, and paragraph 14 of Part 1 of Schedule 11 to, the 2006 Act, with the result that, from 1 October 2006, no new agreements can be entered into under section 16 with regard to England..

[^f00024]: 1968 c. 41 The Natural Environment Research Council’s powers under section 15 of this Act to enter into agreements with owners, lessees or occupiers of land within areas of special scientific interest were transferred to the Nature Conservancy Council by section 1 of the Nature Conservancy Council Act 1973 (c.54), and then to the Nature Conservancy Council for England by section 132 of the Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c.43). That body was renamed English Nature by section 73 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c.37). Section 26 of the Natural Environment and Rural Communities Act 2006 (c.16) provided for the transfer of English Nature’s functions in relation to such agreements to Natural England. Section 15 of the 1968 Act was amended by section 105(1) of, and paragraph 14 of Part 1 of Schedule 11 to, the 2006 Act, with the result that, from 1 October 2006, no new agreements can be entered into under section 15 with regard to England.

[^f00025]: 2006 c. 16.

[^f00026]: S. I. 2000/3042.

[^f00027]: OJ No L 277, 21.10.2005, p. 1 as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No473/2009 (OJ No L 144, 9.6.2009, p. 3).

Editorial notes

[^key-2359721f07082c0cc56e71ee1c8a6c30]: Regulations revoked (1.1.2015) by The Common Agricultural Policy (Control and Enforcement, Cross-Compliance, Scrutiny of Transactions and Appeals) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3263), reg. 1(1), Sch. 5 (with reg. 35)

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