Basic Payment Scheme full guidance archive
Table of Contents
- Introduction to the Basic Payment Scheme
- Reductions and Penalties
- Payments
- Payment Rates
- Assessing your land eligibility
- Main features
- Eligible hectares and minimum agricultural activity
- How to apply
- Transfer of entitlements
- Cross-border holdings
- PF23 Form
Introduction to the Basic Payment Scheme
| Dates applicable | 
| 8 January, 2016 to 12 April, 2016 | 
| 16 March, 2015 to 7 January, 2016 | 
Reductions and Penalties
| Dates applicable | 
| 24 September 2016 - 17 December 2019 | 
Payments
| Dates applicable | 
| 16 March 2015 to 21 March 2022 | 
Payment Rates
Assessing your land eligibility
| Dates applicable | 
| 9 June, 2017 to 21 December, 2022 | 
| 24 March, 2015 to 8 June, 2017 | 
Main features
| Dates applicable | 
| 16 March, 2015 to 18 January, 2017 | 
| 19 January, 2017 to 21 February, 2017 | 
| Dates applicable | 
| 20 April, 2020 to 22 May, 2022 | 
| 15 March, 2018 to 20 April, 2020 | 
| 28 September, 2016 to 14 March, 2018 | 
| 1 January, 2015 to 31 December, 2015 | 
Eligible hectares and minimum agricultural activity
How to apply
| Dates applicable | 
| 8 July, 2022 to 4 January, 2024 | 
| 16 March, 2015 to 18 January, 2017 | 
Transfer of entitlements
Cross-border holdings
| Dates applicable | 
| 1 April, 2015 to 24 March, 2022 | 
PF23 Form
| PF23 form - Application to transfer entitlements (due to sale, lease or inheritance) | 
| 11 June, 2021 to 10 August, 2021 | 
| 1 March, 2017 to 10 June, 2021 | 
