Diolch, Llywydd, and I move the motion. The greening requirements in retained EU legislation provide that the agricultural practices beneficial for the climate and the environment are crop diversification, maintaining existing permanent grassland and having an ecological focus area on the agricultural area.

The crop diversification rules require farmers on holdings with between 10 and 30 hectares of arable land to grow two different crops, with the largest crop not covering more than 75 per cent of the arable land. On holdings with more than 30 hectares of arable land, farmers are required to grow at least three different crops, with the largest crop, again, not covering more than 75 per cent of the arable land, and the two largest crops together not covering more than 95 per cent of the arable land.

Over the past 12 months, Wales has experienced higher than average rainfall. As a result, this has limited farmers' capacity to comply with crop diversification rules, either because they cannot access flooded land, or land is too wet to plant. These regulations remove the crop diversification requirement completely for the 2020 basic payment scheme year. This means farmers in Wales will not have to comply with the crop diversification requirements to plant more than one crop in 2020. It also means, in order to receive payment in full, farmers will not be required to provide evidence showing they've attempted to comply but failed for force majeure reasons. Diolch.