The Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations apply to England and amend the Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) (England) Regulations 2004 (S.I. 2004/3196) (“the Principal Regulations”). The Principal Regulations make provision for the administration of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 (O.J. No. L 270, 21.10.2003, p.1) and Commission Regulation (EC) No 796/2004 (O.J. No. L 141, 30.4.2004, p.18) in relation to cross compliance under the new system of direct support schemes (including the Single Payment Scheme) under the Common Agricultural Policy which came into force on 1 January 2005.

These Regulations amend the Principal Regulations:

• to update the references to the Community instruments in those Regulations to references to the Community instruments as amended at the date these Regulations are made;

• to correct certain drafting errors in the Regulations; and

• to amend the standards of Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition to exclude the harvesting of all varieties of potato, sugar beet, mangel, swede, turnip and fodder beet from the exception to the general rule against the use of mechanical field operations on waterlogged soil.

A full regulatory impact assessment has not been prepared for this instrument as it has no impact on the costs of business.