The Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2014
| Year | 2014 |
2014No. 371 (W. 39)
AGRICULTURE, WALES
The Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2014
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The Welsh Ministers are designated for the purposes of making regulations under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972( 1) in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Union( 2), and they make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by that section.
Title, application and commencement
1. (1) The title of these Regulations is the Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2014.
(2) These Regulations apply in relation to Wales.
(3) These Regulations come into force on 21 February 2014.
Amendments
2. The Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) (Wales) Regulations 2004( 3) are amended as follows.
3. For paragraph 27 of the Schedule (buffer strips along water courses) substitute-
"Buffer strips for water protection
27.
(1) No person may spread manufactured nitrogen fertiliser within 2 metres of surface water.(2) No person may spread organic manure within 10 metres of surface water unless using precision spreading equipment in which case no person may spread organic manure within 6 metres of surface water.(3) But livestock manure (other than slurry and poultry manure) may be spread there if-(a) it is spread on land managed for breeding wader birds or as a species-rich semi-natural grassland and the land is-(i) notified as a Site of Special Scientific Interest under the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981; or(ii) subject to an agri-environment commitment entered into under Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005(on support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD));(b) it is spread between 1 June and 31 October inclusive;(c) it is not spread directly on to surface water; and(d) the total annual amount does not exceed 12.5 tonnes per hectare.(4) No person may spread organic manure within 50 metres of a borehole, spring or well.(5) For the purposes of this paragraph-"livestock" means cattle, chickens, deer, ducks, goats, horses, pigs, sheep, ostriches and turkeys;
"manufactured nitrogen fertiliser" means any nitrogen fertiliser (other than organic manure) manufactured by an industrial process;
"nitrogen fertiliser"...
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