APPEALS
At present you can, within a prescribed timescale, ask us to review any decision to refuse, reduce or recover subsidy using the EU Agricultural Subsidy Schemes Appeal procedure. This procedure has three stages: an in-house review, an external panel review and an appeal to the Scottish Land Court.
The Single Farm Payment Scheme comes fully into effect from 1 January 2005 and our aim is to handle appeals in a similar way to the existing formal appeals procedure.
If you wish to find out more about this process, please see the information on our website. An application form ( AP1) is also available to print off and complete manually. TAn Information Leaflet on the process and the AP1 form are both available from your area office.