Welsh BPS Letters

Rural Payments Wales will be sending out letters to claimants where, after initial checks of 2016 submitted SAFs, it has found:

• two applicants have both claimed on the same land parcel – dual claim
• the total area declared is larger than the land parcel size
• the area of the permanent ineligible feature is larger than that recorded by RPW.

Farmers will have until 21^st June 2016 to respond to these letters without a penalty being imposed.  This 35 day period is in addition to the usual period to 31^st May in which claimants are able to make certain changes without penalty to applications which have been submitted by the deadline.  Wales has applied to the Commission to make use of these measures which were part of the CAP simplification rules announced by Phil Hogan.  Neither England or Scotland have gained approval to use them