The Common Agricultural Policy (Direct Payments etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2015 No. 58

SCHEDULE 1 Agricultural activity: further criteria

PART 1 Criteria established for the purposes of Article 4(1)(c)(ii) of the Direct Payments Regulation: maintaining an agricultural area in a state which makes it suitable for grazing or cultivation

1.  The criteria are—

(a) in respect of agricultural areas other than agricultural areas naturally kept in a state suitable for grazing or cultivation, a farmer must—

(i) take action to control injurious weeds to which the Weeds Act 1959(1) applies; and

(ii) maintain access to those areas for livestock or farm machinery and, where those areas include permanent grassland, maintain existing stock proof boundaries and water sources for livestock; and

(b) in respect of arable land, a farmer must take action to prevent the encroachment of scrub on that land.

(1)

1959 c.54.