Schedule 1 Standards for Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition

England and Wales

1. 1Establishment of buffer strips along water courses
2. 2Abstraction of water for irrigation
3. 3Protection of groundwater
4. 4Minimum soil cover
5. 5Minimum land management reflecting site specific conditions to limit erosion
6. 6Paragraph 6
7. 7Maintenance of soil organic matter
8. 8Paragraph 8
9. 9Heather and grass burning
10. 10Environmental impact assessment
11. 11Paragraph 11
12. 12Retention of landscape features - scheduled monuments
13. 13Retention of other landscape features
14. 14Retention of landscape features - ban on cutting hedges and trees
15. 15Retention of landscape features - felling of trees
16. 16Converting, ploughing or reseeding land designated as environmentally sensitive permanent grassland