Series
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Nitrate Sensitive Areas Scheme...
Catalogue reference: MAF 676
What's it about?
MAF 676
This series contains records relating to the Nitrate Sensitive Areas Scheme including development of policy and legislation from the introduction of the designated areas, the uptake and participation of the scheme through to payments and review of rates.
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Reference (The unique identifier to the record described, used to order and refer to it)
- MAF 676
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Title (The name of the record)
- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Nitrate Sensitive Areas Scheme (NSA Series)
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Date (When the record was created)
- 1989-1996
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Description (What the record is about)
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This series contains records relating to the Nitrate Sensitive Areas Scheme including development of policy and legislation from the introduction of the designated areas, the uptake and participation of the scheme through to payments and review of rates.
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Held by (Who holds the record)
- The National Archives, Kew
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Former department reference (Former identifier given by the originating creator)
- NSA
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Legal status (A note as to whether the record being described is a Public Record or not)
- Public Record(s)
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Language (The language of the record)
- English
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Creator(s) (The creator of the record)
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- Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, 2001-2001
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Environmental Protection Division, 1989-1998
- Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, Rural and Marine Environment Division, 1998-2001
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Physical description (The amount and form of the record)
- 3 file(s)
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Access conditions (Information on conditions that restrict or affect access to the record)
- Open
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Immediate source of acquisition (When and where the record was acquired from)
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from 2014 Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs
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Accruals (Indicates whether the archive expects to receive further records in future)
- Series is accruing
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Administrative / biographical background (Historical or biographical information about the creator of the record and the context of its creation)
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The Nitrate Sensitive Areas Scheme, operates in 32 selected areas in England under the EC agri-environment measures. It was closed to further new entrants in 1998 following the Government?s Comprehensive Spending Review, although existing agreements will continue for their full term. This voluntary scheme compensates farmers for significantly changing their farming practices to help protect valuable supplies of drinking water. The 32 Nitrate Sensitive Areas cover approximately 35,000 hectares of eligible agricultural land.
This scheme has now been integrated within the England Rural Development Programme which is administered by Natural England. It is now covered by Nitrate Vulnerable Zones which is a conservation designation of the Environment Agency for areas of land that drain into nitrate polluted waters, or waters which could become polluted by nitrates. Nitrate Vulnerable Zones were introduced by the UK government in response to the EU mandate that all EU countries must reduce the nitrate in drinking water to a maximum of 50mg/1. The Nitrate Vulnerable Zones covered large areas of land that had been identified as exceeding or being at risk of exceeding 50mg/NO3/1
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Record URL
- https://beta.nationalarchives.gov.uk/catalogue/id/C12103875/
Catalogue hierarchy
This record is held at The National Archives, Kew
Within the department: MAF
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Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs: Nitrate Sensitive Areas Scheme (NSA Series)