Legislative background

The Countryside Care Scheme 2009 was presented to Tynwald in December 2008 and approved at that sitting. It was implemented on 1^st April 2009. Cross Compliance requirements came into effect from the date of approval.

The Scheme and its associated Government Circulars can be downloaded from this page. The Scheme required changes to some existing legislation covering support Schemes and the amendment covering these changes can be found on this page.

Downloadable Documents
Consolidated CCS 2012 (115 kb) Format:Acrobat PDF File
The Agricultural Schemes (miscellaneous amendments and repeals) Scheme 2008 (30 kb) Format:Acrobat PDF File
Definition of Agriculture, Countryside Care Scheme (110 kb) Format:Acrobat PDF File
Land Classification, Countyside Care Scheme (170 kb) Format:Acrobat PDF File
Cross Compliance (252 kb) Format:Acrobat PDF File
Penalties Matrix, countryside care scheme (411 kb) Format:Acrobat PDF File

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