Rural Payments and Services

The majority of Cross Compliance requirements continue to apply as they did in 2016.

There are however some changes to SMR 7 – Cattle Identification and registration, as summarised below.

• removal of passport requirements: ‘You must produce a signed and valid passport for every animal in your care on request’ and ‘You must not alter or deface a cattle passport’
• addition of ScotMoves notifications
• update to timescales for recording movements in your herd register

Please see the SMR 7 – Cattle Identification and registration page, for the most up-to-date requirements.

Cattle identification and registration

You can read the guidance from previous years here.

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