{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1307/annex-IXa/2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1307/annex-IXa/2.json",
  "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/IXa/2",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "2",
  "heading": "Carbon plan",
  "text": "(1) A carbon plan (in this paragraph, a “plan”) must have been prepared not more than five years before the start of the claim year to which it relates.\n(2) A plan must include information about emissions from the holding over at least a 12 month period, measured in tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent.\n(3) A plan must include information about how those emissions will be prevented or reduced.\n(4) In this paragraph—\n(a) a reference to emissions means emissions of a greenhouse gas—\n(i) from buildings and machinery used for agricultural purposes on the holding; and\n(ii) from agricultural activities carried out on the holding; and\n(b) “greenhouse gas” means carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide.",
  "extent": null,
  "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 9a inserted (S.) (5.3.2025) by The Rural Support (Improvement) (Miscellaneous Amendment) (Scotland) Regulations 2025 (S.S.I. 2025/59), regs. 1, 3(3)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/1307/annex/IXa/2",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:48:07.272502+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."
}