Explanatory Handbook for Cross Compliance Requirements

The Department of Agriculture, Food and the Marine (DAFM) has produced this handbook as a guide to help farmers understand and comply with the Cross Compliance Requirements.

The handbook provides a summary of the Cross Compliance requirements for beneficiaries of

• the Basic Payments
• the Greening Payment
• the Young Farmers Scheme
• the Areas of Natural Constraints Scheme (ANC) including Islands
• the Green Low Carbon Agri Environment Scheme (GLAS)
• the Agri-Environment Options Scheme (AEOS)
• the Organic Farming Scheme and the Beef Data and Genomics Programme