The Rural Development Contracts (Rural Priorities) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009

Amendment to Schedule 2

4.  In Schedule 2 (rural priorities options), Part 1 (option, activities and eligibility conditions and rates of payment)–

(a) in rural priorities option numbered 7 (establishment of short rotation coppice crops of willow or poplar) in column 3–

(i) after “50%” insert “of eligible actual costs”;

(ii) after “(Less Favoured Area)” insert “including the cost of fencing (for both non Less Favoured Areas and Less Favoured Areas)”; and

(iii) for “cost of £1540” substitute “payment of £1000”;

(b) in rural priorities option numbered 16 (wild bird seed mix/unharvested crop) in column 2, in paragraph (2)(b) before “sows a mixture” insert “spring”;

(c) in rural priorities option numbered 60 (woodland creation) in column 3, after the first entry insert “Payment rates for additional fencing capital items are 70% of the standard cost shown for fencing related items in Table D in Part 2 of this Schedule”;

(d) in rural priorities option numbered 62 (woodland improvement grants) in column 3, for “70%” substitute “100%”;

(e) in rural priorities option numbered 67 (area access management and monitoring, and creation and upgrading of paths and routes) in column 3, omit “, up to a maximum of £500 per item”;

(f) in rural priorities option numbered 70 (active management to improve the condition of vernacular rural buildings, archaeological or historic sites and historic landscapes) in column 3, omit “annual”.