{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-miscellaneous-amendments-scotland-regulations-2018/regulation-14",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-miscellaneous-amendments-scotland-regulations-2018/regulation-14.json",
  "legislation": "ssi/2018/122",
  "legislation_title": "The Common Agricultural Policy (Miscellaneous Amendments) (Scotland) Regulations 2018",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-miscellaneous-amendments-scotland-regulations-2018",
  "path": "regulation/14",
  "kind": "regulation",
  "number": "14",
  "heading": "Amendments to the Common Agricultural Policy (Cross-Compliance) (Scotland) Regulations 2014",
  "text": "In Part 2 of the schedule (standards for good agricultural and environmental condition)—\n(a) in paragraph 1 (establishment of buffer strips along water courses)—\n(i) in sub-paragraph (2) after “within” insert “, or on any land in a manner which will likely result in organic manure being located within,”; and\n(ii) after sub-paragraph (7), insert—\n“(8) In this paragraph, “field heap” means a store or stack of organic manure which is a freestanding heap which does not slump or produce free draining liquid from within the stacked material.”;\n(b) in paragraph 5(1) (minimum land management reflecting site specific conditions to limit erosion) for “prevent” substitute “limit”; and\n(c) in paragraph 7 (retention of landscape features)—\n(i) for sub-paragraph (2) substitute—\n“(2) A beneficiary must not trim a hedge or cut a tree during the period beginning on 1st March and ending on 31st August in any calendar year (“the prohibited period”), except in accordance with sub-paragraph (3A) or (3B).”;\n(ii) for sub-paragraph (3) substitute—\n“(3) Written consent under sub-paragraph (1) is not required—\n(a) to widen field entrances to enable access for livestock or farm machinery; or\n(b) where the hedge (or part of a hedge) or tree is—\n(i) dead;\n(ii) damaged; or\n(iii) insecurely rooted,\nand because of its condition it poses a risk to human safety.”;\n(iii) after sub-paragraph (3) insert—\n“(3A) Trimming a hedge or cutting a tree is permitted during the prohibited period—\n(a) for the purposes of hedgelaying up to and including 31st March; or\n(b) to the extent necessary for the purposes of road safety.\n(3B) Trimming a hedge or cutting a tree during the month of August in any calendar year is permitted if—\n(a) the hedge or tree is in a field which during that month has been sown with—\n(i) a crop of oilseed rape; or\n(ii) temporary grass; or\n(b) the hedge or tree is in a field which during that month has been sown with any other crop and the Scottish Ministers have given the beneficiary written permission to trim the hedge or cut the tree.”; and\n(iv) in sub-paragraph (7)—\n(aa) omit “and” at the end of head (b)(ii); and\n(bb) for head (c) substitute—\n“(c) “hedgelaying” means a traditional method of cultivating hedges where tall saplings are partly cut through near the base and then bent over so that they lie horizontally and make a thick barrier; and\n(d) “necessary for the purposes of road safety” includes where a tree or hedge—\n(i) overhangs a road, surfaced track or footpath to which the public have access so as to endanger or obstruct the passage of vehicles, pedestrians or horse-riders; or\n(ii) obstructs or interferes with the view of drivers of vehicles or the light from a public lamp.”.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Sub-paragraph (7) was inserted by S.S.I. 2015/215."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2018/122/regulation/14",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-28T21:13:10.329599+00:00"
  },
  "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."
}