The Targeted Element of Glastir will be aimed at those areas of Wales which can deliver defined targets relating to the following objectives -

• Carbon management
• Water management
• Biodiversity
• Historic environment protection
• Improving access

A set of targeted area maps for each of the above objectives have been drawn up by the Welsh Assembly Government.  Those farms which fall into one or more of these targeted areas will be eligible to join the targeted element providing there is already a signed All Wales Element contract.  (Click here to see copies of each of the targeted area maps)

Provisional payment rate information is available by clicking here.

Further details of the Targeted Element Areas and the relevant prescriptions are available by clicking here (this file is very large and may take sometime to open).

(From the Welsh Assembly Government) 

The first Glastir Targeted Element agreements will begin on January 1st 2013.  All land managers who indicated an expression of interest in the Glastir Targeted Element on the SAF 2010 will be considered for selection to the scheme in its first year.  A formal offer of agreement is conditional on the land already having a Glastir All Wales Element agreement.

The selection process will look at the potential for land managers to contribute to key environmental, historic, landscape and recreational objectives of the Targeted Element scheme.  This will be undertaken by looking at where farm boundaries intersect with the different areas identified on the targeted area maps.  For example, improving water quality can best be achieved by taking remedial action in water catchments that are currently failing to meet targets. Similarly, action to support a rare butterfly species is best undertaken where there is an existing population, and adjacent areas to which you might wish to encourage it to spread.

The different targeted ares will be given variable scores dependent on Welsh Assembly Government policy priorities.  A farm which intersects with more layers, particularly high priority layers, will collect a higher score.  This will then be adjusted to take into account farm size.  Farms with the highest scores will then be offered a visit by Welsh Assembly Government from a Targeted Element contract manager.  The contract manager will visit the farm to identify which suite of prescriptions and capital grants can best deliver towards the objectives identified for that farm.  This will form the basis of an agreement offer to the land manager. 

In the first two years of the scheme the scoring process will be particularly weighted in favour of delivery towards improved carbon storage and water management.  However this does not necessarily mean that farms outside these priority carbon and water areas will not be selected for TE, as a combination of other objectives might make farms outside these areas score equally or even more highly.  Furthermore the scoring is designed to evolve to reflect changing priorities, so while carbon and water management layers score highest in the current selection window, in a future year selection might for example be weighted in favour of biodiversity or the historic environment layers. This means that a particular farm's score and likelihood of being offered an agreement may change in the coming years. 

All items and payment rates are subject to approval from the European Commission and may change.