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Less Favoured Areas

NFU Scotland – fighting for your interests

• We won an extra £40 million for LFASS.   This was paid in January 2007 as a top-up to the 2006 LFASS scheme.
  
  
• We successfully fought in Brussels to retain the existing LFA land designation criteria based on socio and economic criteria such as distance to market and remoteness, as well as physical criteria such as land quality.
  
  
• We won the fight for a simple but effective ‘interim’ scheme for the period 2007-2010.
  
  
• We successfully instructed SEERAD to carry out the bulk of LFASS inspections in the back end in order to avoid the peak lambing and calving periods in the Spring.
  
  
• We have secured derogation from the individual recording of sheep movements.
  
  
• We have secured an annual budget of £61 million per year for LFASS within the new Scottish Rural Development Plan until 2013.
  
  
• We successfully argued for a derogation for remote areas from fallen stock rules.
  
  
• We are representing the interests of LFA producers in development of Rural Development Contracts, with measures targeted specifically at upland farmers and crofters.
  
  
• NFUS has organised a series of successful events throughout 2007 to highlight the critical importance of both LFA farming and LFA support.    

November 2007

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