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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-schemes-cross-compliance-scotland-regulations-2004/schedule/paragraph-7",
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  "legislation": "ssi/2004/518",
  "legislation_title": "The Common Agricultural Policy Schemes (Cross-Compliance) (Scotland) Regulations 2004",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-schemes-cross-compliance-scotland-regulations-2004",
  "path": "schedule/paragraph/7",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "7",
  "heading": "Arable break crops or the application of organic materials",
  "text": "(1) On arable land cultivated for crop production, a farmer must either–\n(a) use suitable break crops to maintain organic matter in the soil in an arable rotation; or\n(b) optimise the application of organic materials to land by applying rates of application of the material calculated by reference to the requirements of the soil and crops grown.\n(2) Where a farmer uses the option specified at sub-paragraph (1)(b), the farmer must make and keep for 5 years a written record of the organic materials, and the quantities of those materials, applied to the land.",
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  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
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  "outstanding_effects": [
    {
      "type": "words inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2009/391",
      "affecting_title": "The Common Agricultural Policy (Single Farm Payment and Support Schemes and Cross-Compliance) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "inserted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2009/391",
      "affecting_title": "The Common Agricultural Policy (Single Farm Payment and Support Schemes and Cross-Compliance) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2009"
    },
    {
      "type": "words substituted",
      "affecting": "ssi/2010/222",
      "affecting_title": "The Public Services Reform (Scotland) Act 2010 (Consequential Modifications) Order 2010"
    }
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2004/518/schedule/paragraph/7",
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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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