Regionalisation of payments
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Date published: 1 June, 2015
Date superseded: 24 December, 2015
Updates to last version
- more information has been included on land parcel information
Introduction
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
Basic Payment Scheme – provisional allocation of payment regions
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.
We have asked you to check the details in our letter, 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.
Land parcel reviews
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.
Missing land parcels
Some of our customers have told us that some land parcels were missing from the table we attached to their letter. If this has happened to you, we will send another letter with a table listing these land parcels – it may also include other land parcels that our records show are also permanently held by you.
If you get a letter and think our provisional assessment of these land parcels is wrong, you can request a review of your Payment Region using the form below.
If you would like to discuss your letter, 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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