The Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) (England) Regulations 2004

Burning of crop residues

4.  A farmer must not, on agricultural land, burn any crop residue of a kind specified in Schedule 1 to the Crop Residues (Burning) Regulations 1993(1) unless the burning is for the purposes of—

(a) education or research;

(b) disease control or the elimination of plant pests where a notice has been served under article 22 of the Plant Health (Great Britain) Order 1993(2); or

(c) the disposal of straw stack remains or broken bales.

(1)

S.I. 1993/1366.

(2)

S.I. 1993/1320, amended numerous times, most recently by S.I. 2004/2365.