The Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Cambrian Mountains) Designation (Amendment) Order 1995

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This Order further amends the Environmentally Sensitive Areas (Cambrian Mountains) Designation Order 1986 (“the principal Order”) which designated an area of the Cambrian Mountains as an environmentally sensitive area.

This Order—

(a) adds new definitions (article 3(2));

(b) specifies new rates of payment under management agreements entered into in relation to agricultural land in the designated area (article 3(6));

(c) substitutes a new Schedule 1 for the previous Schedule of requirements which must be included in an agreement (article 3(7));

(d) inserts Schedules 3 and 4 setting out additional provisions which may be included in an agreement and which attract higher rates of payment (article 3(7));

(e) inserts a Schedule 5 of optional provisions which may be included in an agreement as part of a conservation plan and which attract additional payments (article 3(7)).

In compliance with Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2078/92 (OJ No. L215, 30.7.92, page 85) (“the Council Regulation”) this Order also amends the principal Order by detailing the requirements in relation to public access (article 3(5) and Schedule 2) which may be included in a management agreement and the rates of payment to be made by the Secretary of State in such cases (article 3(6)). The said requirements in relation to public access form part of zonal programmes made by the United Kingdom in accordance with Article 3 of the Council Regulation. Those programmes were approved by the European Commission in accordance with Article 7 of that Regulation.

The Order also makes minor and consequential amendments.

Agreements made on or before 28th February 1995 are unaffected by the amendments (article 4).