Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) general information and guidance

Guide to the Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS)

This booklet sets out the general rules of the Environmental Farming Scheme (EFS) and how it will be administered and controlled to ensure that requirements have been met.

• Guide to the Environmental Farming Scheme for agreements commencing 2017 to 2019
• Guide to the Environmental Farming Scheme for Agreements commencing 2020
• Environmental Farming Scheme Q&A
• Claiming for EFS arable options - rotational option

Online training for EFS Agreements that started in 2020 now available.

For guidance about how to complete your training please see the two attachments below.

• Online EFS training – cover note with username and password
• Online EFS training – user guide

The video below gives you additional information on how to log on and complete EFS on-line training:

List of approved organic bodies

This list gives details of the approved UK Organic Control Bodies as of January 2017

• Approved UK Organic Control Bodies

Further information

European Union Funding and State Aid

The Environmental Farming Scheme is part funded by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD).

Aid for the establishment of native woodland of less than 5 hectares and aid for agro-forestry Systems are subject to European Commission State Aid rules and all applications will be assessed for compliance with Articles 32 and 33 of Commission Regulation (EU) 702/2014 [Official Journal of the European Union L 193/1 – 75, 1 July 2014].