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1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the Agricultural Holdings (Units of Production) (England) Order 2017 and comes into force on 7th November 2017.
(2) In this Order—
“disadvantaged land” (except in the expression “severely disadvantaged land”) means any area of land shown coloured blue on the England LFA maps;
“eligible hectare” has the same meaning as in Article 32(2) of Regulation 1307/2013;
“the England LFA maps” means the four volumes of maps entitled “Less Favoured Area Map of England 2009”, each volume being marked with the number of the volume, dated 29th January 2010, signed on behalf of the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and deposited at the Intelligence Hub at the offices of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs at Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR;
“less favoured area” means any area of disadvantaged land or severely disadvantaged land;
“moorland” means all the land that is—
severely disadvantaged land, and
shown coloured brown in the three volumes of maps entitled “Moorland Map of England 2009”, each volume being marked with the number of the volume, dated 29th January 2010, signed on behalf of the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and deposited at the Intelligence Hub at the offices of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs at Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR;
“Regulation 1307/2013” means the Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy(1);
“severely disadvantaged land” means any area of land shown coloured pink on the England LFA maps.
OJ No L347, 20.12.20, p. 608 as last amended by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/142 (OJ No L28, 4.2.2016, p. 8; and corrected by Corrigendum, OJ No L130, 19.5.2016, p. 8.
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