The Scottish Government

Paragraghs

A. A summary of the scheme

1-11

Introduction

1-3

Changes

4-6

Yield regions

7

Set-aside requirement

8

Applying for AAPS

9-11

Checklist - the main dates

B. General rules for AAPS payments

12-45

General rules

12

Land eligibility

13-27

What is eligible for AAPS aid?

13-16

Special conditions for flax and hemp

17

What is not eligible for AAPS aid?

18-22

Exceptions to the definition of ineligible land

23

Ineligible land in linseed in 1992 or 1993

24

Switching eligible land for ineligible land

25

Field margins

26

Internal features

27

Eligible crops

28-30

Sowing dates

31-33

Husbandry standards

34-38

Establishing and maintaining crops

34-35

Crop failures

36-38

Minimum claim and plot sizes

39-40

Penalties

41-45

C. Set-aside land

46-152

Your set-aside requirement

46-50

Types of set-aside

51-53

Multi-annual set-aside

54

Additional voluntary set-aside

55

Structural set-aside

56-60

Woodland schemes

56-58

Habitats scheme

59-60

Growing organic fodder legumes on set-aside land

61-66

Short-rotation coppice and other biomass crops on set-aside land

67

Using set-aside land during the set-aside period

68-74

Agricultural uses

68-69

Non-agricultural uses

70-73

Research

74

Managing set-aside land

75-81

Existing cover

82

Natural regeneration

83-84

Sown green cover

85-87

Wild-bird cover

88-89

Types of wild-bird cover to sow

90-91

Managing wild-bird cover

92

Bare fallow

93

Compulsory cut or destruction

94-97

Exemptions from the compulsory cutting requirements

98

Other exemptions

99

How to apply for an exemption

100

Tenant farmers

101

Controlling weeds and volunteer crops

102-103

Herbicides

104-108

Pesticides (other than herbicides)

109-110

Agricultural operations and timing

111-112

Replacing a green cover

113

Miscellaneous rules for set-aside land

114-124

Manure and wastes

114-117

Fertilisers

118

Liming

119

Drainage

120

Access

121-122

Burning

123

Storing of produce from the previous harvest

124

Using the land at the end of the set-aside period

125-128

If you want to leave the land in set-aside

125-126

If you want to sow a crop on the land for harvest the following year

127-128

Growing crops for non-food use on set-aside land

129-130

Management rules for non-food set-aside

131-148

Management rules for non-food set-aside

131-132

Permitted end-uses

133

Perennial and biennial crops

134

The contract

135-136

Amending the contract

137-139

Reducing the area under contract

140

Being unable to provide the contract quantity

141-143

Harvest

144

Representative yield

145

After delivery

146

Payment

147-148

Crops with no food or animal-feed use listed in table 2

149-152

Eligible crops

149-150

Permitted end uses

151

Your responsibilities

152

D. Relationship with other schemes

153-155

Seed certification

154

Seed production aid

155

E. Records

156-159

F. Appeals and complaints

160-163

Appendix 1: How to work out your set-aside requirement for 2004

Appendix 2: Small producers

Appendix 3: Base area (production ceiling) and payment rates

Appendix 4: Special conditions for rapeseed, linseed, flax and hemp

Appendix 5: Applicants with land in more than one yield region

Appendix 6: Choosing your set-aside land

Appendix 7: Non-food set-aside - tables 1 to 3: CN codes and descriptions

Appendix 8: Multi-annual set-aside

Appendix 9: SEERAD area offices and other government contact points