Textual Amendments
SMR : Statutory management requirement GAEC : Standards for good agricultural and environmental condition of land | ||||
a The GAEC buffer strips must respect, both within and outside vulnerable zones designated pursuant to Article 3(2) of Directive 91/676/EEC, at least the requirements relating to the conditions for land application of fertiliser near water courses, referred to in point A.4 of Annex II to Directive 91/676/EEC to be applied in accordance with the action programmes of Member States established under Article 5(4) of Directive 91/676/EEC. | ||||
b The requirement can be limited to a general ban on burning arable stubble, but a Member State may decide to prescribe further requirements. | ||||
c As implemented in particular by:
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| Area | Main Issue | Requirements and standards | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Environment, climate change, good agricultural condition of land | Water | SMR 1 | Council Directive 91/676/EEC of 12 December 1991 concerning the protection of waters against pollution caused by nitrates from agricultural sources (OJ L 375, 31.12.1991, p. 1) | Articles 4 and 5 |
| GAEC 1 | Establishment of buffer strips along water coursesa | |||
| GAEC 2 | Where use of water for irrigation is subject to authorisation, compliance with authorisation procedures | |||
| GAEC 3 | Protection of ground water against pollution: prohibition of direct discharge into groundwater and measures to prevent indirect pollution of groundwater through discharge on the ground and percolation through the soil of dangerous substances, as listed in the Annex to Directive 80/68/EEC in its version in force on the last day of its validity, as far as it relates to agricultural activity | |||
| Soil and carbon stock | GAEC 4 | Minimum soil cover | ||
| GAEC 5 | Minimum land management reflecting site specific conditions to limit erosion | |||
| GAEC 6 | Maintenance of soil organic matter level through appropriate practices including ban on burning arable stubble, except for plant health reasonsb | |||
| Biodiversity | SMR 2 | Directive 2009/147/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 November 2009 on the conservation of wild birds (OJ L 20, 26.1.2010, p. 7) | Article 3(1), Article 3(2)(b), Article 4(1), (2) and (4) | |
| SMR 3 | Council Directive 92/43/EEC of 21 May 1992 on the conservation of natural habitats and of wild flora and fauna (OJ L 206, 22.7.1992, p. 7) | Article 6(1) and (2) | ||
| Landscape, minimum level of maintenance | GAEC 7 | Retention of landscape features, including where appropriate, hedges, ponds, ditches, trees in line, in group or isolated, field margins and terraces, and including a ban on cutting hedges and trees during the bird breeding and rearing season and, as an option, measures for avoiding invasive plant species[F2. Restrictions on converting, ploughing or reseeding environmentally sensitive permanent grassland.] | ||
| Public health, animal health and plant health | Food safety | SMR 4 | Regulation (EC) No 178/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 28 January 2002 laying down the general principles and requirements of food law, establishing the European Food Safety Authority and laying down procedures in matters of food safety (OJ L 31, 1.2.2002, p. 1) | Articles 14 and 15, Article [F317]c and Articles 18, 19 and 20 |
| SMR 5 | Council Directive 96/22/EC of 29 April 1996 concerning the prohibition on the use in stockfarming of certain substances having a hormonal or thyrostatic action and beta-agonists, and repealing Directives 81/602/EEC, 88/146/EEC and 88/299/EEC (OJ L 125, 23.5.1996, p. 3) | Article 3(a), (b), (d) and (e) and Articles 4, 5 and 7 | ||
| Identification and registration of animals | SMR 6 | Council Directive 2008/71/EC of 15 July 2008 on identification and registration of pigs (OJ L 213, 8.8.2005, p. 31) | Articles 3, 4 and 5 | |
| SMR 7 | Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 July 2000 establishing a system for the identification and registration of bovine animals and regarding the labelling of beef and beef products and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 820/97(OJ L 204, 11.8.2000, p. 1) | Articles 4 and 7 | ||
| SMR 8 | Council Regulation (EC) No 21/2004 of 17 December 2003 establishing a system for the identification and registration of ovine and caprine animals and amending Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and Directives 92/102/EEC and 64/432/EEC (OJ L 5, 9.1.2004, p. 8) | Articles 3, 4 and 5 | ||
| Animal diseases | SMR 9 | Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 22 May 2001 laying down rules for the prevention, control and eradication of certain transmissible spongiform encephalopathies (OJ L 147, 31.5.2001, p. 1) | Articles 7, 11, 12, 13 and 15 | |
| Plant protection products | SMR 10 | Regulation (EC) No 1107/2009 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 21 October 2009 concerning the placing of plant protection products on the market and repealing Council Directives 79/117/EEC and 91/414/EEC (OJ L 309, 24.11.2009, p. 1) | Article 55, first and second sentence | |
| Animal welfare | Animal welfare | SMR 11 | Council Directive 2008/119/EC of 18 December 2008 laying down minimum standards for the protection of calves (OJ L 10, 15.1.2009, p. 7) | Articles 3 and 4 |
| SMR 12 | Council Directive 2008/120/EC of 18 December 2008 laying down minimum standards for the protection of pigs (OJ L 47, 18.2.2009, p. 5) | Article 3 and Article 4 | ||
| SMR 13 | Council Directive 98/58/EC of 20 July 1998 concerning the protection of animals kept for farming purposes(OJ L 221, 8.8.1998, p. 23) | Article 4 | ||
Editorial Information
X1Substituted by Corrigendum to Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 352/78, (EC) No 165/94, (EC) No 2799/98, (EC) No 814/2000, (EC) No 1290/2005 and (EC) No 485/2008 (Official Journal of the European Union L 347 of 20 December 2013).
Textual Amendments
F2Words in Annex 2 inserted (W.) (31.12.2020 in so far as it relates to direct payments) by The Direct Payments to Farmers and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1556), regs. 1(2)(a), 2(20); and words in Annex 2 inserted (W.) (26.3.2021 in so far as it relates to domestic support for rural development) by The Agricultural Support (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/400), regs. 1(2), 2(23)
F3Word in Annex 2 substituted (31.1.2020 in so far as it relates to the Common Agricultural Policy direct payment schemes) by The Financing, Management and Monitoring of Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/90), regs. 1(2), 11(2); and word in Annex 2 substituted (31.12.2020 in so far as it relates to common organisation of the markets and rural development measures) by The Common Agricultural Policy (Financing, Management and Monitoring) (Miscellaneous Amendments) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/763), regs. 1, 11(2); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)