| Case name - Adjancent to | |
| ISSUE - The ditches, and also the landscape features from the 2nd pilar, may be included in the package EFA. The following question rises; what does the committee mean precisely when it says ‘adjacent to’? In the Netherlands there are landscapes with a ditch and next to that a strip of trees in line. Can both elements bee seen as adjacent to? | REPLY - Linear landscape features or buffer strips are considered to be "adjacent to arable land" when they are physically touching an agricultural parcel of arable land on the longest edge of the concerned EFAs. In this example, the hedge is clearly adjacent to arable land. Whether the ditch is adjacent to arable land depends on the classification of the parcel on the left hand side as being temporary grassland (then it is adjacent to arable land) or permanent grassland (then not adjacent). However where landscape features adjacent to another landscape feature (hedge) which is adjacent to arable land, they are considered as a potential EFA when the landscape feature (hedge) between the arable land and the second landscape feature (ditch) is embedded in the agricultural parcel eligible for BPS/SAPS in accordance with Article 9(1) and (2) of Regulation (EU) No 640/2013. |
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