# 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, Article 5: Soil report


(1) A soil report (in this paragraph, a “report”) must have been prepared not more than five years before the start of the claim year to which it relates.
(2) A report must provide the specified information for each field on the holding that is—
(a) region 1 land managed on a permanent basis; and
(b) land to which an artificial fertiliser or organic manure is applied.
(3) The specified information is any two of—
(a) the pH of the soil;
(b) the amount of organic matter in the soil;
(c) the amount of phosphorus in the soil;
(d) the amount of potassium in the soil.
(4) In this paragraph—
(a) “region 1” means the region applied by the Scottish Ministers under and in accordance with Article 23(1) as region 1 of Scotland and comprising better quality agricultural land;
(b) a reference to land managed on a permanent basis does not include land—
(i) let for a period of less than a year; and
(ii)

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/1307/annex/IXa/5 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1307/annex-IXa/5
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