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  "legislation": "nisr/2025/165",
  "legislation_title": "The Farm Sustainability Standards Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2025",
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  "number": "12",
  "heading": "Amendment of the Horizontal Regulation",
  "text": "(1) The Horizontal Regulation is amended as follows.\n(2) In every place–\n(a) for “cross-compliance” substitute “Farm Sustainability Standards”;\n(b) for “statutory management requirements and the standards for good agricultural and environmental condition of land” substitute “standards”;\n(c) for “statutory management requirement” substitute “standard”;\n(d) for “statutory management requirements” substitute “standards”;\n(e) for “good agricultural and environmental condition” substitute “standards”;\n(f) for “severity, extent, permanence”, substitute “severity”;\n(3) In Article 91(3)(b), for the definition of “requirement” substitute–\n“(b) “requirement” means each individual requirement under a statutory provision referred to in the second column of Annex II.”\n(4) In Article 92, after “direct payment support” insert “and Sustainable Agriculture Programme payments”.\n(5) In Article 93–\n(a) in paragraph 1, for “the statutory management requirements and the standards for good agricultural and environmental condition of land established in the constituent nation” substitute “Farm Sustainability Standards”;\n(b) omit sub paragraphs (a) to (c).\n(6) For Article 94, substitute–\n“Article 94”\n“Obligations relating to farm sustainability standards environmental protection requirements”\n“1. The Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs shall ensure that the farm sustainability standards are underpinned by environmental protection requirements and shall set out in legislation, as a constituent part of the farm sustainability standards, the minimum standards for beneficiaries for environmental protection requirements.”\n(7) Article 96 shall be amended as follows.\n(a) in paragraph 3, for “this Title” substitute “Schedule 1, Part 1”;\n(b) in paragraph 4, for “this Title” substitute “Schedule 1, Part 1”.\n(8) In Article 97, omit paragraph 3.\n(9) Article 99 is amended as follows.\n(a) for paragraph 2 substitute–\n“(a) the minimum penalty to be applied in respect of any non-compliance determined shall be the sending of a warning letter by or on behalf of the competent authority and completion of mandatory training;\n(b) the maximum penalty to be applied shall no exceed 100% of all payments made or due to be made in the scheme year in which that recurrence was determined and exclusion from payment from all schemes for the two scheme years immediately following;”\n(b) omit paragraphs 3 and 4.\n(10) Omit Article 105.\n(11) Omit Article 106.",
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  "status": "prospective",
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