You can now apply for BPS 2019. If you applied online last year (2018), we’ll have sent you an email explaining that you can find everything you need to apply for 2019 on GOV.UK. If you used a paper form …
Over the coming weeks and months, emails sent from the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) will come from an email address without the ‘gsi’. For example: mailbox@rpa.gsi.gov.uk will change to mailbox@rpa.gov.uk. Where emails contain ‘bcms’, this is also being removed. For …
You can read the results from cross compliance inspections in 2017 on GOV.UK. They show the reasons why farmers failed to meet each Statutory Management Requirement (SMR) and Good Agricultural and Environmental Conditions (GAEC). We publish these results each year …
You can track the progress of your 2018 BPS claim online by signing in to the Rural Payments service at www.gov.uk/rural-payments If you applied on paper, you can still use this service, if you have your log in details. If …
With 2 weeks left until the 15 May deadline for BPS 2018 applications, here are some important reminders to help you when you apply online or on paper. 1. Read the guidance: some rules and processes have changed for 2018, …
The Basic Payment Scheme is now open for 2018 applications. We’ve published everything you need to help you apply on GOV.UK . Please make sure you read the scheme rules before you apply, in particular the changes that have come …
We’ve been making updates to digital maps using the latest information available to us, including aerial photography and Ordnance Survey map updates. If your digital maps have been updated using this information – this does not include land changes that …
The ‘Key Dates for BPS’ timeline is now available on GOV.UK. This shows important dates in the 2018 BPS scheme year, ahead of the full scheme rules being published on 13 March. We have also included some of the things …
It’s been a few years since we posted on our last blog, however we thought now is the right time to bring back the blog and let you know how we are going to be using it. We want to …
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