Common Agricultural Policy Schemes (Cross-Compliance) (Scotland) Regulations 2014 (S.I. No. 325 of 2014).

These Regulations make provision in Scotland for the administration and enforcement of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and designates the Scottish Ministers as the competent national authority for providing beneficiaries (farmers and recipients of support under specific rural development schemes) under Article 95 of Horizontal Regulation with a list of the statutory management requirements (specified in Annex II of that Regulation) and the standards for good agricultural and environmental condition (as required by Article 94 of that Regulation) that they must respect. The Regulations also provide with respect to enforcement and offences. The Schedule sets out the standards for good agricultural and environmental condition and in particular protection of groundwater against pollution.