Regionalisation of payments
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Date published: 1 January, 2015
Date superseded: 1 June, 2015
The way we allocate funding through Direct Payments is changing and is now known as regionalisation.
This means that Direct Payments will be paid on an area basis to reflect the variation in land quality across Scotland. Each field will be allocated a 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
Basic Payment Scheme – payment regions
If you, or a tenant on your land, submitted a Single Application Form (SAF) 2014 and claimed land under the Single Farm Payment Scheme (SFPS) we have sent you a letter which lists the claimed land parcels, and the payment region we provisionally believe each land parcel to be in.
It is important that you check the details in our letter, even if you agree with our provisional assessment.
If you don't do this 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, we notify you a land parcel is Payment Region One but subsequently discover it should be Payment Region Two. You can request a review of your Payment Region using the form below.
If you have any questions about your letter, or have not received one, please see our Q&A information below.
If you can't find an answer to your question please get in touch.
Further information
You can find out more about reform of the Common Agricultural Policy below.
Reform of the Common Agricultural Policy
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