The Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross-compliance) (England) Regulations 2005

Made: 14th December 2005

Laid before Parliament: 19th December 2005

Coming into force: 12th January 2006

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Title, commencement and application

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Interpretation

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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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Assistance to authorised persons

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Offences and penalties

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Revocation

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SCHEDULE — Standards of good agricultural and environmental condition

Soil Protection Review

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Post-harvest management of land after combinable crops

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Waterlogged soil

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Burning of crop residues

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Overgrazing and unsuitable supplementary feeding

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Management of land which is not in agricultural production

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Control of weeds

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Protection of hedgerows and watercourses

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Hedgerows

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Meaning of “hedgerow” in paragraphs 10, 11 and 12

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Stone walls

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Environmental impact assessment

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Heather and grass burning

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Sites of special scientific interest

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Tree preservation orders

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Scheduled monuments

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Felling of trees

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Public rights of way

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Signed

Bach — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 2005-12-14

Explanatory note

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Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1972/1811.

[^f00002]: 1972 c. 68.

[^f00003]: O.J. L 215, 30.07.1992, p. 85. This Council Regulation has been repealed, but agri-environment commitments entered into under it remain extant.

[^f00004]: O.J. L 288, 01.12.1995, p. 35.

[^f00005]: O.J. L 160, 26.06.1999, p. 80. This Council Regulation has been repealed, with effect from 1st January 2007, by Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (O.J. No. L 277, 21.10.2005, p.1), except for certain provisions which continue in force beyond that date.

[^f00006]: O.J. L 91, 30.03.2004, p. 1.

[^f00007]: S.I. 2003/838.

[^f00008]: 1968 c. 41. Under this Act, the Natural Environment Research Council was given the powers, for conservation purposes, to enter into an agreement, with owners, lessees or occupiers of land within areas of special scientific interest, which imposes restrictions on the exercise of rights over that land by persons who can be bound by such an agreement. These powers were transferred to the Nature Conservancy Council under the Nature Conservancy Council Act 1973 (c. 54). The Environmental Protection Act 1990 (c. 43) provided for the winding up of that body and set up the Nature Conservancy Council for England to which the Nature Conservancy Council’s functions were transferred. That body was renamed English Nature by section 73 of the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c. 37) (“the 2000 Act”).

[^f00009]: 1949 c. 97. Under this Act, the Natural Environment Research Council was given the power to enter into an agreement with owners, lessees and occupiers of land, where their land appeared to it to be land which it was in the national interest to manage as a nature reserve, in order to ensure that land is managed as such. These powers were also transferred to the Nature Conservancy Council, and then to the National Conservancy Council for England, which was renamed English Nature, by virtue of the provisions specified in the previous footnote.

[^f00010]: S.I. 2000/3042, amended by S.I. 2001/3900.

[^f00011]: O.J. No. L 141, 30.04.2004, p.18.

[^f00012]: O.J. No. L 314, 29.11.2005, p.10.

[^f00013]: O.J. No. L 270, 21.10.2003, p.1, as corrected by corrigenda at O.J. No. L 94, 31.03.2004, p.70 and at O.J. No. L 206, 9.6.2004, p. 20.

[^f00014]: O.J. No. L 024, 27.01.2005, p.15.

[^f00015]: S.I. 2004/3385.

[^f00016]: The Rural Payments Agency is an Executive Agency of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, for the time being accredited as the Paying Agency.

[^f00017]: 1990 c 43.

[^f00018]: 2000 c. 37.

[^f00019]: 1995 c. 25.

[^f00020]: S.I. 2004/3196 as amended by S.I. 2005/918.

[^f00021]: S.I. 2005/918.

[^f00022]: 1965 c. 64.

[^f00023]: S.I. 1993/1366.

[^f00024]: S.I. 2005/2530.

[^f00025]: This term has the meaning given to it in Article 44(2) of the Council Regulation.

[^f00026]: 1959 c. 54, as amended by the Ragwort Control Act 2003 (2003 c. 40). There are other amending instruments but none is relevant.

[^f00027]: In that case the farmer must comply with the provisions as to land set aside from production in regulation 4(1), (3) to (6) of, and Schedule 1 to, the Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment Scheme (Set-aside) (England) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/3385).

[^f00028]: In that case the farmer must comply with the provisions as to land set aside from production, in regulation 4(2) to (6) of, and Schedule 2 to, the Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment Scheme (Set-aside) (England) Regulations 2004.

[^f00029]: S.I. 1997/1160, amended by S.I. 2003/2155.

[^f00030]: 1980 c. 66.

[^f00031]: S.I. 2001/3966, amended by S.I. 2005/1430.

[^f00032]: S.I. 1999/2228.

[^f00033]: See the definition of Minister in section 2(1) of the Heather and Grass etc (Burning) Regulations 1986 (S.I. 1987/1208). By virtue of regulation 2, the functions of the Minister were transferred to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs.

[^f00034]: S.I. 1986/428, amended by S.I. 1987/1208 and S.I. 2003/1615.

[^f00035]: 1981 c. 69. Section 28(1)(b) was substituted by the 2000 Act, section 75(1) and Schedule 9, paragraph 1.

[^f00036]: Section 28E(1)(a) and (b) were inserted by the 2000 Act, section 75(1) and Schedule 9, paragraph 1.

[^f00037]: Section 28P(4) was inserted by the 2000 Act, section 75(1) and Schedule 9, paragraph 1.

[^f00038]: Section 28P(7) was inserted by the 2000 Act, section 75(1) and Schedule 9, paragraph 1.

[^f00039]: Section 28K(1) was inserted by the 2000 Act, section 75(1) and Schedule 9, paragraph 1.

[^f00040]: S.I. 1994/2716, amended by the Environment Act 1995 (1995 c. 37) and S.I. 2000/192; there are other amending instruments but none are relevant.

[^f00041]: 1990 c. 8. Section 211 was amended by the Planning and Compulsory Purchase Act 2004 (c. 5) section 86.

[^f00042]: 1979 c. 46.

[^f00043]: 1967 c. 10.

[^f00044]: 1980 c. 66, as amended by the 2000 Act.

Editorial notes

[^key-a978c02ea91b54cb4460df9b9cc84dd9]: Regulations revoked (1.1.2010) by The Agriculture (Cross compliance) Regulations 2009 (S.I. 2009/3264), regs. 1, 8, Sch. 3

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