REPS 2007

By Catherine Keena

If you have applied or intend to apply in 2007 for REPS, you must submit a Single Payment Scheme (SPS) application. A completed application form must be received in The Single Payment Unit of the Department of Agriculture and Food, Old Abbeyleix Road, Portlaoise, or in any local office of the Department, or submitted online to the Department, no later than mid-night on Friday, 4 May 2007.

REPS and SPS

If you are participating in REPS, you are obliged to declare all the land parcels in your holding (Owned, Rented and Leased) on your 2007 SPS application form. Only land parcels declared and registered with a unique identification number on the Department's land parcel identification system (LPIS) will be eligible for payment under REPS and only the area recorded will be reckonable for REPS payment.

REPS Habitats

Land devoted to newly created habitats managed under an approved REPS 3 plan including Option 9B Environmental Management of Setaside, or under an NPWS plan are eligible to use entitlements under the SPS.

This land will be subject to a waiver from normal grazing and/or cutting management requirements under Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions in cases where these habitats adhere to REPS or NPWS conditions.

Supplementary Measures Riparian Zones and LINNET habitats must be identified on the SFP form and maps identifying the areas must accompany the form.

It is not necessary to define REPS 3 new habitats (option 4A) on a map, but must be declared separately as a subdivision of a land parcel.