What's new for 2016?

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Date published: 8 January, 2016

Date superseded: 23 December, 2016

The Cross Compliance requirements continue to apply as they did in 2015.

There is however one small change to GAEC 7 as detailed below, which applied from 1 January 2016.

  • GAEC 7 - Retention of landscape features
    The following exemption has been removed from requirement detail 4 - ‘for 2015 only, applications of fertilisers or pesticides to crops sown in 2014 for harvest in 2015’

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