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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1307/annex-IX",
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  "legislation": "eur/2013/1307",
  "legislation_title": "Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 637/2008 and Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1307",
  "path": "annex/IX",
  "kind": "annex",
  "number": "IX",
  "heading": "List of equivalent practices referred to in Article 43(3)",
  "text": "I..Practices equivalent to crop diversification:\n(1)Crop diversification\nRequirement: at least three crops, the main crop covering a maximum of 75 %, and any one or more of the following applying:\nthere are at least four crops,\nlower maximum thresholds apply,\nthere is a more appropriate selection of crops, such as, for example, leguminous, protein crops, crops not requiring irrigation or pesticide treatments, as appropriate,\nregional varieties of old, traditional or endangered crop types are included on at least 5 % of the rotated area.\n(2)Crop rotation\nRequirement: at least three crops, the main crop covering a maximum of 75 %, and any one or both of the following applying:\na more environmentally beneficial multiannual sequence of crops and/or fallow is followed,\nthere are at least four crops.\n(3)Winter soil cover\n(4)Catch crops\nII..Practices equivalent to maintenance of permanent grassland:\n(1)Management of meadows or pastures\nRequirement: maintenance of permanent grassland and any one or more of the following:\nCutting regime or appropriate mowing (dates, methods, limits)\nMaintenance of landscape features on permanent grassland and control of scrub\nSpecified grass varieties and/or seeding regime for renewal depending on the grassland type, with no destruction of high nature value\nEvacuation of forage or hay\nAppropriate management for steep slopes\nFertiliser regime\nPesticide restrictions\n(2)Extensive grazing systems\nRequirement: maintenance of permanent grassland and any one or more of the following:\nExtensive grazing (timing, maximum stocking density)\nShepherding or mountain pastoralism\nUsing local or traditional breeds for grazing the permanent grassland\nIII..Practices equivalent with ecological focus area:\nRequirement: application of any of the following practices on at least the percentage of the arable land set pursuant to Article 46(1):\n(1)Ecological set-aside\n(2)Creation of \"buffer zones\" for high nature value areas, Natura 2000 or other biodiversity protection sites, including along hedgerows and water courses\n(3)Management of uncultivated buffer strips and field margins (cutting regime, local or specified grass varieties and/or seeding regime, re-seeding with regional varieties, no use of pesticides, no disposal of manure and/or mineral fertilisers, no irrigation, no soil sealing)\n(4)Borders, in-field strips and patches managed for wildlife or specific fauna (herbaceous border, protection of nests, wildflower strips, local seed mix, unharvested crops)\n(5)Management (pruning, trimming, dates, methods, restoration) of landscape features (trees, hedgerows, riparian woody vegetation, stone walls (terraces), ditches, ponds)\n(6)Keeping arable peaty or wet soils under grass (with no use of fertilisers and no use of plant protection products)\n(7)Production on arable land with no use of fertiliser (mineral fertiliser and manure) and/or plant protection products, and not irrigated, not sown with the same crop two years in a row and on a fixed place\n(8)Conversion of arable land into permanent grassland extensively used",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F1",
      "text": "Regulation revoked (E.) (1.1.2024) by The Agriculture (Delinked Payments and Consequential Provisions) (England) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1430), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 3 para. 1 Table 1 (with Sch. 3 Pt. 2)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F2",
      "text": "Annex 9 omitted (W.) (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Direct Payments to Farmers and Rural Affairs (Miscellaneous Amendments etc.) (Wales) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1556), regs. 1(2)(a), 7(26); Annex 9 omitted (E.) (1.1.2021 in relation to an application for direct payments made in 2021 or in any subsequent year) by virtue of The Direct Payments to Farmers and Cross-Compliance (Simplifications) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1387), regs. 1(1), 5(9) (with reg. 1(2)); and Annex 9 omitted (N.I.) (25.2.2021) by virtue of The Direct Payments to Farmers (Simplifications) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021 (S.R. 2021/42), regs. 1(1), 4(7)"
    },
    {
      "type": "C",
      "label": "C1",
      "text": "Annex 9 Section I para. (1) excluded (W.) (30.4.2020) by The Direct Payments to Farmers (Crop Diversification Derogation) (Wales) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/470), regs. 1(2), 2(a)(iii) (with reg. 3)"
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "Practices subject to the calculation referred to in point (c) of Article 43(12)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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