Guidance and regulation

Cross compliance ended on 31 December 2023. If you are a farmer or land manager, find out what this means for you.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 5 January 2024

If you’re an existing Environmental Stewardship (ES) agreement holder, read how the end of cross compliance affects your agreement.

• From: Rural Payments Agency
• Updated: 6 December 2023

• Environmental Stewardship agreements: addendum to 2nd, 3rd and 4th edition Environmental Stewardship handbooks

  If you are a farmer or land manager and claimed rural payments between…

Results from cross compliance inspections in 2019.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 3 others
• Updated: 29 January 2021

• Cross compliance 2019: inspection results

  Total number of non-compliances applied to rural payments SMR or GAEC…

Results of cross compliance inspections in 2013 - including most common failures.

• From: Animal and Plant Health Agency and 3 others
• Updated: 5 November 2020