Cross Compliance Soil Protection Review
The new Soil Protection Review (SPR) 2010 includes all four of the former Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions (GAECs) that applied to soils. It explains about risks and guides farmers through the process of identifying the risks on their soils, and how to address them.
The rules for accessing waterlogged land have changed. They now give farmers more responsibility to identify risks to soil and greater flexibility to remedy any damage that occurs. Farmers no longer have to rely on exemptions to access waterlogged land, but will have to record any activity on waterlogged land that take place and the corrective action they take.
Page published: 21 December 2009