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  1. Introductory Text

  2. PART 1 INTRODUCTION

    1. 1.Title, application and commencement

    2. 2.Interpretation

  3. PART 2 INTEGRATED ADMINISTRATION AND CONTROL SYSTEM AND ENFORCEMENT

    1. 3.Applications

    2. 4.Minimum size of agricultural area

    3. 5.Recovery of undue payments

    4. 6.Interest

    5. 7.Powers of entry

    6. 8.Powers of inspection etc

    7. 9.Assistance to authorised persons

    8. 10.Offences and penalties

    9. 11.Liability of directors etc

    10. 12.Offences by bodies corporate, partnerships and unincorporated associations

  4. PART 3 CROSS COMPLIANCE

    1. 13.Standards for good agricultural and environmental condition

    2. 14.Competent control authorities

  5. PART 4 FINAL PROVISIONS

    1. 15.Revocations and savings

  6. Signature

    1. SCHEDULE 1

      Standards for Good Agricultural and Environmental Condition

      1. 1.Establishment of buffer strips along water courses

      2. 2.Abstraction of water for irrigation

      3. 3.Protection of groundwater

      4. 4.Minimum soil cover

      5. 5.Minimum land management reflecting site specific conditions to limit erosion

      6. 6.(1) A beneficiary must not carry out a mechanical field...

      7. 7.Maintenance of soil organic matter

      8. 8.A beneficiary must not, on any agricultural area, burn—

      9. 9.Heather and grass burning

      10. 10.Environmental impact assessment

      11. 11.(1) A beneficiary must not carry out, on any land,...

      12. 12.Retention of landscape features - scheduled monuments

      13. 13.Retention of other landscape features

      14. 14.Retention of landscape features - ban on cutting hedges and trees

      15. 15.Retention of landscape features - felling of trees

      16. 16. Converting, ploughing or reseeding land designated as environmentally sensitive permanent grassland

    2. SCHEDULE 2

      Circumstances where a breach of Schedule 1 is not a non-compliance

      1. 1.Any action carried out under a commitment under—

      2. 2.Any action carried out on the land—

    3. SCHEDULE 3

      Revocations

  8. Explanatory Note