Rural Payments and Services

The Single Application Form is the form you need to fill in if you want to claim payments under the following schemes:

• Basic Payment Scheme (including Greening and Young Farmer payments)
• Scottish Suckler Beef Support Scheme (Mainland and Islands)
• Scottish Upland Sheep Support Scheme
• Less Favoured Area Support Scheme
• Agri-Environment Climate Scheme – annual recurrent options
• Forestry Grant Scheme – annual maintenance and management grants
• Beef Efficiency Scheme
• Rural Development Contracts – Rural Priorities annual recurrent options
• Land Managers Options – continuing commitments

For the Scottish Suckler beef Support Scheme and the Scottish Upland Sheep Support Scheme, you will also need to submit a separate claim form.

For the Beef Efficiency Scheme, you will need to submit a separate application form.

The Single Application Form can be submitted once a year during our annual submission window, which is open from mid-March until 15 May.

If this date falls on a weekend, the window will close the following Monday.

We'll use the information on your Single Application Form (plus any supporting information) to determine your eligibility for the schemes you are claiming for.

If your claim is successful (each claim is assessed on its ability to meet the eligibility criteria) we will make payments into your business bank account.

Guidance

To make sure your Single Application Form is processed correctly, please check the information you've provided is accurate. Mistakes on your form could lead to a delay in receiving any payments you are eligible for.

By using our new online service you can avoid making some mistakes as the system will recognise errors in codes and data that are essential to your claims.

Guidance

You should read the Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) guidance and our booklet on how to complete your Single Application Form. Both are available below (IACS (1a)).

You must also read the detailed guidance for all schemes you are claiming under and which require you to submit a Single Application Form.

If the scheme requires you to comply with Cross Compliance, you must read the relevant guidance and if you are claiming for the Basic Payments Scheme, you must read the Greening guidance.

Cross Compliance

Greening

You can download the Single Application Form blank base form (IACS (2)) and data sheets (IACS (3),(4) and (5)) below.

We cannot accept a base form that has been downloaded and filled in. If you need a blank 2015 base form, please contact your RPID area office and we will send one to you.

However, we can accept data sheets you have downloaded and filled in, provided they are legible on A3 paper.

We will also accept computer generated data sheets if they are on A3 paper and:

• they match exactly the same layout and headings shown on the IACS(3), IACS(4) and IACS(5) forms
• the maximum number of land parcels recorded on them is five
• they are easy to read, decipher and photocopy
• each data sheet is signed and dated

You can also access guidance relating to the different types of business you may want to register and how to do so.

Business types

Section	Change
Overview	Addition to list of schemes the Single Application Forms can be used for
	Information on completing separate application form for Beef Efficiency Scheme
Forms	Change of number of land parcels that can be recorded on a data sheet from 10 to five
	Requirement for downloaded data sheets to be provided in A3
	Addition of 2016 forms

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