Key Dates
4 March - 15 May (or 10 June with late penalties)
- Single Application Form (SAF) 2024 available on RPW Online
4 March - 19 April
- Small Grants - Woodland Creation
6 March - 16 April
- Small Grants - Efficiency
15 May
- Closure of Transfer & Lease of BPS Entitlements 2024
- Closing date for receipt of SAF 2024 without penalty
- Closing date for the submission of the Habitat Wales Commons claim
20 May - 28 June
- Small Grants - Environment, Expression of Interest Window
3 June - 12 July
- Growing for the Environment (Autumn sowing), Expression of Interest Window
10 June
- Final day for receipt of SAF 2024 (subject to late penalties). All SAFs received after 10 June will be rejected
19 June
- Final day for response to the ‘Preliminary Checks: Permanent Features and Duplicate Fields’ letter to avoid penalties.
Completing SAF 2024
If you haven’t already completed your form you are advised to make arrangements to complete your online SAF as soon as possible using the available guidance.
If you have completed your form / or when you do complete the form it is important that you check the copy of your application, the summary and any sketch maps that you have submitted on RPW online to ensure that you have claimed for all the schemes / land that you wish to claim for.
Transfer of BPS Entitlements
You may transfer BPS Entitlements by sale, gift or lease until midnight 15 May 2024. Transfer of Entitlements online forms are available for you to complete using your RPW Online account.
Livestock Register
The Sheep and Goat record has been updated. It is available on the Welsh Government website or alternatively if you would like a hard copy please contact EID Cymru.
Renting Land/Summer grazing
If you are considering renting land on either long-term or short-term agreements Make sure that your Manage My CPH details on your RPW Online account is up to date.
RPW Online – GOV.UK One Login
To modernise the RPW Online service and enable new features in the future, we are moving away from the Government Gateway. Rural Payments Wales (RPW) is currently developing a new system for customers to access RPW Online using GOV.UK One Login.
After the Single Application Form (SAF) 2024 submission period ends, we will begin asking RPW Online users to migrate to the GOV.UK One Login system. To ensure the migration to GOV.UK One Login is as smooth as possible, we will be contacting all existing RPW Online users to ask them to migrate in phases. Further updates regarding GOV.UK One Login will be provided in the Gwlad e-newsletters. From June, new users will register using GOV.UK One Login instead of Government Gateway.
When the Inspector Calls
A helpful guide to farmers (2024 Edition)
Farm inspections take place on a sample number of farms each year to ensure that farmers are complying with the rules and regulations they are required to abide by, as a condition of receiving financial support or as a result of keeping livestock This guidance has been updated.
In addition to guidance on how to prepare and what will happen during an inspection on your farm, for ease of reference copies of the farm records templates associated with Cross Compliance, and other schemes are included in this guide. Each record includes a worked-up example for your information. All the records are available online for farmers to maintain their own farm records.
In addition to guidance on how to prepare and what will happen during an inspection on your farm, for ease of reference copies of the farm records associated with Cross Compliance, and other schemes are included in this guide. Each record includes a worked-up example for your information. All the records are available online for farmers to maintain their own farm records. Farm inspections take place on a sample number of farms each year to ensure that farmers are complying with the rules and regulations they are required to abide by, as a condition of receiving financial support or as a result of keeping livestock.