Common Agricultural Policy (Amendment) (No. 2) Regulations 2015 (S.I. No. 1997 of 2015).

These Regulations amend: the Common Agricultural Policy Basic Payment and Support Schemes (England) Regulations 2014 with respect to the right of member states to define an “active farmer”, and lists of crop species permitted in Ecological Focus Areas: the Common Agricultural Policy (Control and Enforcement, Cross-Compliance, Scrutiny of Transactions and Appeals) Regulations 2014 in the definitions of “rural development payment” and “accountable body”, provisions on set-off of direct payments and rural development payments against current and legacy debts and provisions on breaches of of commitments under EU Regulations; and the Rural Development Enforcement (England) Regulations 2007 so that they apply to breaches of Commission Regulation 65/2011 (which these regulations remove from regulation 14(1)(c) of the Common Agricultural Policy (Control and Enforcement, Cross-Compliance, Scrutiny of Transactions and Appeals) Regulations 2014).