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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1307/annex-X/division-2",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-1307/annex-X/division-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/X/division/2",
  "kind": "division",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Conversion and weighting factors referred to in Article 46(3) to be applied to features included in the equivalent practices as listed in Section III of Annex IX",
  "text": "Equivalent ecological focus area\nSimilar standard ecological focus area\nConversion factor\nWeighting factor\nEcological focus area (if both factors are applied)\n(1)\nEcological set-aside (per 1 m 2 )\nLand lying fallow\nn.a.\n1\n1 m 2\n(2)\nCreation of ‘buffer zones’ (per 1 m)\nBuffer strips and field margins\n6\n1,5\n9 m 2\n(3)\nManagement of uncultivated buffer strips and field margins (per 1 m)\nBuffer strips and field margins\n6\n1,5\n9 m 2\n(4)\nBorders, in-field strips and patches:\nBorders, in-field strips (per 1 m)\nBuffer strips and field margins\n6\n1,5\n9 m 2\nPatches (per 1 m 2 )\nField copses\nn.a.\n1,5\n1,5 m 2\n(5)\nManagement of landscape features:\nIsolated tree (per tree)\nIsolated tree\n20\n1,5\n30 m 2\nTrees in line (per 1 m)\nHedges/wooded strips/trees in line\n5\n2\n10 m 2\nGroup of trees/Field copses (per 1 m 2 )\nField copses\nn.a.\n1,5\n1,5 m 2\nHedgerows (per 1m)\nHedges/wooded strips/trees in line\n5\n2\n10 m 2\nRiparian woody vegetation (per 1m)\nHedges/wooded strips/trees in line\n5\n2\n10 m 2\nTerraces (per 1m)\nTerraces\n2\n1\n2 m 2\nStone walls (per 1m)\nTraditional stone walls\n1\n1\n1 m 2\nDitches (per 1m)\nDitches\n5\n2\n10 m 2\nPonds (per 1 m 2 )\nPonds\nn.a.\n1,5\n1,5 m 2\n(6)\nKeeping arable peaty or wet soils under grass (no use of fertilisers and no use of plant protection products) (per 1 m 2 )\nLand lying fallow\nn.a.\n1\n1 m 2\n(7)\nProduction on arable land with no use of fertiliser and/or plant protection products, and not irrigated, not sown with the same crop two years in a row (per 1 m 2 )\nAreas with short rotation coppice; Strips along forest edges with production; Areas with nitrogen-fixing crops\nn.a.\n0,3\n0,7 for nitrogen-fixing crops\n0,3 m 2\n0,7 m 2\n(8)\nConversion of arable land into permanent grassland (per 1 m 2 )\nLand lying fallow\nn.a.\n1\n1 m 2",
  "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 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)"
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F3",
      "text": "Substituted by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/1155 of 15 February 2017 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) No 639/2014 as regards the control measures relating to the cultivation of hemp, certain provisions on the greening payment, the payment for young farmers in control of a legal person, the calculation of the per unit amount in the framework of voluntary coupled support, the fractions of payment entitlements and certain notification requirements relating to the single area payment scheme and the voluntary coupled support, and amending Annex X to Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council."
    },
    {
      "type": "F",
      "label": "F4",
      "text": "Annex 10 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 10 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(10) (with reg. 1(2)); and Annex 10 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(8)"
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2013/1307/annex/X/division/2",
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  },
  "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."
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