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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-single-payment-scheme-set-aside-wales-regulations-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-single-payment-scheme-set-aside-wales-regulations-2005/schedule-1/paragraph-2.json",
  "legislation": "wsi/2005/45",
  "legislation_title": "The Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment Scheme (Set-aside) (Wales) Regulations 2005",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-single-payment-scheme-set-aside-wales-regulations-2005",
  "path": "schedule/1/paragraph/2",
  "kind": "paragraph",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "The sown green cover option",
  "text": "(1) In respect of each field or part of a field to be managed in accordance with the sown green cover option, a farmer must —\n(a) subject to sub-paragraph (2) and paragraph 7, establish a green cover by the start of the current green cover season by sowing seed of a relevant kind;\n(b) subject to paragraphs 8, 12 and 13, maintain the green cover thereafter until the end of the relevant period; and\n(c) cut or destroy the green cover in accordance with paragraph 6.\n(2) The requirement to establish a green cover in accordance with paragraph (1)(a) does not apply —\n(a) in 2005, where —\n(i) the field or part of a field was set aside in 2004 pursuant to Article 6 of Council Regulation 1251/1999 and was managed during that year in accordance with the grassland option set out in paragraph 2 of Schedule 2 to the Arable Area Payments Regulations 1996; and\n(ii) the green cover established in accordance with the requirements of that option has been maintained until the beginning of the current green cover season; and\n(b) in 2006 and in each year thereafter, where —\n(i) the field or part of a field was set aside in the previous year and was managed during that year in accordance with the sown green cover option; and\n(ii) the green cover established in accordance with the requirements of that option has been maintained until the beginning of the current green cover season in the year in question.",
  "extent": null,
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "S.I. 1996/3142, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/wsi/2005/45/schedule/1/paragraph/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-10-29T00:07:15.785071+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."
}