Scottish Rural Development Programme 2014-2020: ex-post evaluation - annex A scheme summary report

Footnotes

1 The Heat Map reports covers contracts arising from the 2015 to 2018 application rounds (that is, the first four years of AECS) with contracts implemented between 2016 and 2023. Reports were run during May-October 2019 and maps reflect the status during that period. The 2019 round was not included as applications were being assessed. The data does not include legacy agreements under Rural Priorities and Land Managers Options; however, these had largely expired by 2019. and many land managers with expiring Rural Priorities (RP) or LMO (Land Manager Options) contracts will have then entered AECS. Contracts have a five-year duration, and contracts commence the year after application.

2 Many of the grant option aims and eligibility have been reviewed and updated throughout the lifetime of the FGS.

3 This aim was set out on page 248 of the Scottish Rural Development Programme - domestic: programme 2021.

4 Value was provided in Pound Sterling not Euros.