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Extensification Payment Scheme check date
16/01/2004
The Scottish Executive Environment and Rural Affairs Department today announced the sixth check date under the Standard Scheme option of the Extensification Payment Scheme (EPS) 2003.
The date, covering the period November to December 2003 is, 1 December 2003 and is the same for all applicants across the UK. The fifth check date (11 October 2003) covering September to October 2003 was randomly selected and announced in November.
A fourth declaration letter, pre-printed with the information provided for the first five check dates, will issue in late January requesting data for the sixth check date. Claimants should return all details for all six check dates to their SEERAD Area Office by February 29, 2004. Failure to do this will result in no payment being made.
Claimants should by now have received their third declaration letter which they are required to complete with details of the total number of bovine livestock units on their holding on the fifth check date. They are also required to check the information we have recorded for the first four check dates.
As an alternative to submitting a paper declaration, claimants may complete and send them electronically to SEERAD if they have access to the Internet. For further information and details on how to access the electronic system can be found at www.scotland.gov.uk/agri or contact your SEERAD Area Office who can also answer any general enquiries about the Scheme.
Any enquiries about the issue of declaration letters should be directed to the Extensification Payment Scheme Section, Room 209, Pentland House, 47 Robb's Loan, Edinburgh, EH14 1TY, Telephone 0131 244 6385.