food and feed law and cross compliance
Under the 'cross-compliance' scheme, in order
to qualify for the full single payment and other direct payments,
farmers are required to comply with a set of statutory management
requirements (SMRs) which relate to public, animal and plant
health, environment and animal welfare as well as keep their land
in good agricultural and environmental condition.
There have been a number of changes to the
requirements and standards for the 2010 scheme year including two
new requirements to the Food and Feed Law SMR.
The first change introduces the requirement to
take account of the results of any analyses carried out on samples
from food-producing animals, plants, animal feed or other samples
taken for diagnostic purposes that have importance for human and
animal health as well as simply recording the analyses.
The second places the obligation on food and feed business
operators to ensure their produce does not contain traces of
pesticides or veterinary medicines that exceed the stated statutory
Maximum Residue Level.
