Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross-compliance) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2008 (S.I. No. 80 of 2008).

These Regulations amend the Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross-compliance) (England) Regulations 2005 in paragraph 7 of the Schedule which sets out farmers’ obligations relating to the management of land not in agricultural production. The amendments concern: (a) an extension of the obligations to cut down scrub and rank vegetation and to establish and maintain green cover on land out of production to formerly set-aside land; and (b) clarification that the obligation to establish green cover on land includes maintanance of the green cover but does not apply to areas on which soil dredged from watercourses and field ditches on which land has been spread.