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  "legislation": "ssi/2014/325",
  "legislation_title": "The Common Agricultural Policy (Cross-Compliance) (Scotland) Regulations 2014",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-cross-compliance-scotland-regulations-2014",
  "path": "schedule/part/1/paragraph/wrapper1n1",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": null,
  "heading": null,
  "text": "In this Schedule—\n“the 2003 Act” means the Water Environment and Water Services (Scotland) Act 2003 ;\n“the 2018 Regulations” means the Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Regulations 2018,\n“chemical fertiliser” means fertiliser which is manufactured by an industrial process;\n“invasive species” means giant hogweed (heracleum mantegazzianum), Japanese knotweed (fallopia japonica), Himalayan balsam (impatiens glandulifera) and rhododendron (rhododendron ponticum);\n“nitrogen fertiliser” means any substance containing a nitrogen compound utilised on land to enhance growth or vegetation;\n“organic manure” means—\n(a)livestock manure; and\n(b)nitrogen fertiliser, not being livestock manure or chemical fertiliser, derived from organic matter, and includes sewage sludge and other organic wastes;\n“pesticides” means anything used for destroying pests and includes herbicides, fungicides, insecticides and other biocides;\n“relevant period” means the period beginning on the day the land is prepared for planting a hedge and terminating at the end of the third growing season following the planting of that hedge;\n“rough grazings and other semi-natural areas” means land containing semi-natural vegetation including heathland, heather moorland, bog, unimproved grassland and rough grassland which is used or suitable for grazing; and\n“surface water” has the same meaning as in section 3(3) of the 2003 Act.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Words in sch. 1 Pt. 1 substituted (1.11.2025) by The Environmental Authorisations (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/165), reg. 1(2), sch. 22 para. 24(a) (with sch. 23)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Words in sch. Pt. 1 inserted (16.3.2015) by The Common Agricultural Policy (Direct Payments etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/58), regs. 1(1), 27(2)."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Words in sch. Pt. 1 inserted (27.6.2015) by The Common Agricultural Policy (Direct Payments etc.) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/215), regs. 1(3), 11."
    },
    {
      "type": "M",
      "label": "M1",
      "text": "2003 asp 3, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
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  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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