Professional AdviceYou are here : Professional Advice » Guidance note archive » Single Payment Scheme » Single Farm Payments
GN17-11 "Dual Use" - Two farmers claiming different schemes on one piece of land
Dual use is where two farmers can legitimately claim grants under different schemes on the same piece of land. For example farmer 1 claiming the Single Payment Scheme (SPS) and farmer 2 claiming an Environmental Stewardship (ES) scheme. The European Commission has raised concerns with DEFRA and the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) regarding the validity of "dual use". As a result new checks are being implemented in 2011 whereby the RPA will write to 1145 farmers to ask them to provide evidence that they have sufficient control to deliver their scheme requirements. This guidance note provides CLA members with information about the "dual use" check and details the information they need to send to the RPA should they be written to as part of these checks.
|
Contact Claire Collyer
Join the CLA today
The CLA Game Fair 2012
More articles and documents [News Archive] [20 July 2010] |
Guidance Notes
This document is only available to logged in eligible CLA Members.
Advises on agri-environment grant schemes, SPS, cross compliance, designated areas (including SSSIs, SACs and SPAs) and the greening of the CAP.
- Policy Topics
- Policy Topics
- Site sections
- Specially for members
© 2012 Country Land and Business Association Limited (CLA). All rights reserved. No part of this website may be reproduced or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, or stored in any retrieval system of any nature without prior written permission of the copyright holder except as expressly permitted by law.
Disclaimer
No responsibility for loss occasioned to any person acting or refraining from action in reliance on or as a result of the material included in or omitted in this website can be or is accepted by the author(s), the CLA or its officers or trustees or employees or any other persons.
The Advisory Services are made available to members on the basis that members' rights to compensation and the liability (if any) of CLA and its officers and/or its staff advisers, are restricted in the following ways. In the event of any advice given by any CLA staff adviser being given negligently or otherwise being incorrect no liability whatsoever is accepted by the CLA or its officers or by its staff advisers concerned
(a) towards any person who is not the current CLA member to whom the advice was directly given,
(b) to any person in the respect of consequential loss or loss of profits, or
(c) to any person for any sum exceeding £50,000 in respect of any one enquiry (whether made or responded to orally or in writing and whether dealt with at one time or over a period of time).
Any person making use of the Advisory Services accepts such restrictions. Members should refer to appropriate professional advisers in private practice before taking any particular course of action potentially or actually involving any substantial amounts of money.
Please note that whilst the advisers are able to advise on a wide range of subjects relating to land ownership, they cannot act in place of a member's own solicitor, accountant, surveyor and tax specialist by, for example, drafting documents or corresponding on their behalf and may be precluded, by the rules of their own professions, from advising one CLA member against another CLA member in the case of conflict.
Solicitors Indemnity Fund . Solicitors in the CLA Legal Team are not covered by the Solicitors Indemnity Fund in relation to professional negligence in relation to any advice given by them.
Please note that from time to time telephone calls maybe recorded for training purposes.