Rural Payments and Services

The way we allocate funding means that Direct Payments (Basic Payment Scheme and Greening) will be paid on an area basis to reflect the variation in land quality across Scotland.

Each land parcel will be allocated a Payment Region. There will be three Payment Regions:

• Region One

This includes better quality agricultural land that has been used for arable cropping, temporary grass and permanent grass

• Region Two

This includes rough grazing with a Less Favoured Areas (LFA) grazing category of B, C, D or non-LFA

• Region Three

This includes rough grazing with an LFA grazing category A

If you, or a seasonal tenant, submitted a Single Application Form (SAF) in 2014 and claimed land under the Single Farm Payment Scheme or submitted a SAF for the first time in 2015 to claim land for Basic Payment Scheme, we will have sent you a letter(s) listing the claimed land parcels and the Payment Region we provisionally believe each land parcel to be in.

We have asked you to check the details in our letter(s), even if you agreed with our provisional assessment. This is because your future payments may be penalised if, at a later date, we discover the payment region allocated to a land parcel is incorrect.

For example, if we told you a land parcel is Payment Region One but subsequently discover it should be Payment Region Two.

If you think our provisional assessment of any of your land parcels is wrong you can ask us to review it using the form below.

The deadline for doing this is in any correspondence we have sent you.

If you ask us to do this you will need to supply some further evidence for example a detailed map with measurements of the relative areas of rough grazing, permanent grazing of arable land, along with photographs.

If you would like to discuss your letter, please get in touch.

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You can find out more about reform of the Common Agricultural Policy below.

Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy

Section	Change	Previous text	New text
Basic Payment Scheme – provisional allocation of payment regions	Text change	If you, or a seasonal tenant, submitted a Single Application Form in 2014 and claimed land under the Single Farm Payment Scheme, we will have sent you a letter listing the claimed land parcels and the Payment Region we provisionally believed each land parcel to be in.	If you, or a seasonal tenant, submitted a Single Application Form in 2014 and claimed land under the Single Farm Payment Scheme or submitted a Single Application Form for the first time in 2015 to claim land for Basic Payment Scheme, we will have sent you a letter(s) listing the claimed land parcels and the Payment Region we provisionally believe each land parcel to be in.
Land parcel reviews	Text change	If you asked us to review one or more of the land parcels on the table we sent to you last year, we will write to you to tell you the outcome of our review. If we asked you for further evidence to support your request please send this to us as soon as possible, if you have not already done so.	If you think our provisional assessment of any of your land parcels is wrong you can ask us to review it using the form below. The deadline for doing this is in any correspondence we have sent you. If you ask us to do this you will need to supply some further evidence for example a detailed map with measurements of the relative areas of rough grazing, permanent grazing of arable land, along with photographs.
	Updated 'Regional payments questions and answers' document added
	New Payment Region review request form added	Your area office must receive your completed form within 60 days of the date of our Provisional Payment Region Allocation letter	Your area office must receive your completed form within 30 days of the date of our Provisional Payment Region Allocation letter
Missing land parcels	Section removed

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