| Case name - Shared landscape features (EFA) | |
| ISSUE - When landscape features are situated between parcels of different farmers they share the feature. It is logical to assume that the feature has to be shared. However in some cases the element is owned by one of the two farmers. An EFA landscape feature, is it always split in the middle? Where the landscape feature is owned (and used) by one farmer, half of it can be claimed by the owner, where the other half can not be claimed at all? | REPLY - An EFA (ditch) at the border of a field, adjacent to arable land, which is fully at the disposal of the farmer may be fully declared by the farmer provided that the same farmer also declares the adjacent arable land. It would then be fully taken into account for the fulfilment of the EFA requirement. In addition, generally where an EFA is at the disposal of different farmers because it is shared over the length (ie. the border is in the middle of the linear EFA) each beneficiary could take in account for the fulfilment of the EFA the part of the EFA at his disposal provided that it is adjacent to the arable land which is declared by the said beneficiary. In such a case, the sum of the declared areas by different farmers for the same EFA shall not exceed the total established area of the EFA. Please note that, based on the picture in this field case, there is only arable land adjacent to one side of the longest edge of the ditch. |
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