The Direct Payments to Farmers and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

Amendment of the Common Agricultural Policy (Integrated Administration and Control System and Enforcement and Cross Compliance) (Wales) Regulations 2014

10.—(1) The Common Agricultural Policy (Integrated Administration and Control System and Enforcement and Cross Compliance) (Wales) Regulations 2014(1) are amended, insofar as they relate to direct payments, as follows.

(2) In regulation 2, omit paragraph (1A).

(3) In regulation 5—

(a) for paragraph (2)(b) substitute—

“(b) includes a statement by the Welsh Ministers of the rate for that period;”;

(b) omit paragraph (3).

(4) In Schedule 1, after paragraph 15 insert—

“Converting, ploughing or reseeding land designated as environmentally sensitive permanent grassland

16.— (1) A beneficiary may only convert, plough or reseed certain areas of environmentally sensitive permanent grassland if—

(a) the site of special scientific interest notification requires or allows the beneficiary to plough or convert certain areas of the site of special scientific interest; or

(b) consent to do so has been provided by Natural Resources Wales.

(2) In this paragraph—

“environmentally sensitive permanent grassland” (“glaswelltir parhaol amgylcheddol-sensitif”) means—

(a)

grassland located in a site of special scientific interest; and

(b)

grassland in relation to which written consent to plough is required in accordance with section 28E(1) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981(2) but such consent has not been obtained;

“site of special scientific interest” (“safle o ddiddordeb gwyddonol arbennig”) has the meaning given in section 52(1) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981.”

(1)

S.I. 2014/3223 (W. 328), amended by S.I. 2016/217 (W. 86), S.I. 2016/1154, S.I. 2017/565 (W. 134), S.I. 2019/688 (W. 132) as from implementation period completion day, and S.I. 2020/104 (W. 17).

(2)

1981 c. 69.