{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1307/annex-IXa/4",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1307/annex-IXa/4.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/4",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "4",
  "heading": "Integrated pest management plan",
  "text": "(1) An integrated pest management plan (in this paragraph, a “plan”) must have been prepared not more than one year before the start of the claim year to which it relates.\n(2) A plan must describe the measures intended to prevent or control the introduction or spread of plant pests on the holding, including any use of a plant protection product.\n(3) A plan must describe how those measures are consistent with the general principles of integrated pest management as described in Annex III of the Directive.\n(4) In this paragraph—\n(a) “the Directive” means Directive 2009/128/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a framework for Community action to achieve the sustainable use of pesticides, as that Directive is defined in regulation 2(1) of the Plant Protection Products (Sustainable Use) Regulations 2012; and\n(b) “plant protection product” includes herbicides, nematicides, pesticides, plant growth regulators, and slug control agents.",
  "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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    "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."
}