Decree on cross-compliance.

This Decree here establishes rules on cross-compliance for the implementation of related EU legislative documents as listed in article 1. The rules on cross-compliance are prescribed conduct requirements and standards for maintaining good agricultural and environmental condition of land and represent minimum requirements in the fields of environment, climate change, good agricultural condition of land, public health, animal and plant health, and animal welfare. These rules, in the form of a list, are in Annex 1, which is an integral part of this text. Annex 4, which is an integral part of this regulation, specifies a form for keeping records of the use of organic and mineral fertilizers for an individual calendar year in order to fulfill the prescribed handling requirements for nitrates from Annex 1. The Agency of the Republic of Slovenia for Agricultural Markets and Rural Development is responsible for the control system and administrative penalties related to cross-compliance.
Article 8 determines provisions regarding the early warning system, which shall be used for cases of non-compliance from these rules which do not significantly affect the environment and the health of people, animals or plants and which do not or will not cause harmful consequences and which can be rectified on the spot or in a reasonably short time deadline and are established during an on-site inspection or an administrative inspection of the agency. The beneficiary shall not be notified of non-conformities from the early warning system. It is considered that non-compliance from the early warning system due to incomplete marking of cattle or sheep or goats is eliminated when the animals are correctly marked. If the beneficiary does not eliminate the non-compliance from the early warning system during the on-site inspection, he must send the evidence of its elimination to the agency in writing within thirty days from the day on which he was informed about this non-compliance by the on-site control report. Intentional non-compliance is defined in article 9. Maintenance of permanent pastures is further defined in article 10 (the Agency determines and calculates the ratio between the area of permanent pastures and the area of agricultural land in the territory of the Republic of Slovenia in accordance with article 37 of Regulation 640/2014/EU from the reported areas of agricultural land in the summary applications for the years 2004 and 2005). All records kept by those liable for cross-compliance within the framework of Common Agricultural Policy measures shall be used by the agency for the purposes of control referred to in article 6 of this text and reduction of payment referred to in article 7.
The following Annexes are here attached: Annex 1: Rules on cross-compliance; Annex 2: Table for determining the degree of negligence; Annex 3: Table for determining the degree of intentional infringement; Annex 4: Records of the use of organic and mineral fertilizers for the current calendar year.