Paragraph 2 Post-harvest management of land after combinable crops

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

Sch. para. 3(1)(c)(iv) words inserted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2005 reg. 2(e)(i)
Sch. para. 3(1)(c)(iv)(bb) words substituted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2005 reg. 2(e)(ii)
Sch. para. 13(5)(b) words substituted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2005 reg. 2(f)
Sch. para. 16(1)(a) word substituted by Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) 2005 reg. 2(g)

(1)

If land has carried a crop of oil-seeds, grain legumes or cereals (other than maize) which has been harvested using a combine harvester or a mower, a farmer must ensure that, throughout the periods in sub-paragraph (2), at least one of the following conditions is met on that land at any time—

(a)

the stubble of the harvested crop remains in the land;

(b)

the land is left with a rough surface following ploughing, discing, tine cultivation or any other suitable agricultural method;

(c)

the land is prepared as a seedbed for a crop and the crop is sown within a period of 10 days beginning with the day after final seedbed preparation;

(d)

the land is under cultivation sequences used for the purpose of creating a stale seedbed; or

(e)

the land is sown with a temporary cover crop, so long as, if the cover crop becomes grazed out or cultivated out, the condition in paragraph (b) is then met as soon as is practicable without breaching the requirements in paragraph 3, and for the remainder of the period.

(2)

The periods in sub-paragraph (1) are—

(a)

in 2005, the period beginning with 1st January and ending with 28th February; and

(b)

in 2005 and in subsequent years, the period beginning with the first day after harvest and ending with the last day of February in the following year.

(3)

In this paragraph, “stale seedbed” means an area of land which is subject to shallow cultivation to stimulate weed germination as part of a strategy of weed control.