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Updates: River basin management plans, updated 2022: summary programmes of measures – mechanisms

2024

2 January 2024 published amendments

7. Diffuse source pollution

Cross compliance and the Basic Payment Scheme ended after the 2023 scheme year. However, most of the standards in cross compliance continue to apply to your farm activities as they remain in other English laws. Delinked payments will replace the Basic Payment Scheme in 2024.

2022

22 December 2022 published amendments

2. Cross cutting legislation for protecting water

Updated tense to reflect that the 2022 river basin management plans are the current plans approved by the Secretary of State for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs in December 2022.

7. Diffuse source pollution

Under section 7.3 amended the amount National Highways will allocate to invest in the strategic road network until 2025 from £300m to £411m.