Rural Development Contracts (Land Managers Options) (Scotland) Regulations 2008 (S.S.I. 159 of 2008).

These Regulations provide for the payment of aid to be made available by the Scottish Ministers from the Scotland Rural Development Programme to any person who enters into an undertaking with the Scottish Ministers to carry out, or as the case may be carry out and maintain the activities relevant to at least one of the land managers options set out in Schedule 2. Eligible undertakings are prescribed by Community legislation and in the Schedules to these Regulations. The Regulations also provide that, where a person enters into an undertaking which includes an activity under certain land managers options (as defined in Schedule 2 to these Regulations), that person must also comply with the requirements established by Article 4 of and Annex III to Council Regulation (EC) No. 1782/2003, the good agricultural and environmental conditions specified in regulation 4 of and the Schedule to the Common Agricultural Policy Schemes (Cross Compliance) (Scotland) Regulations 2004 and the condition and requirements specified in Parts 1 and 2 of Schedule 3 to these Regulations.