ANNEX IISupplementary provisions
ANNEX II ‘ANNEX X Conversion and weighting factors referred to in Article 46(3) ( *1 ) Features Conversion factor (m/tree to m 2 ) Weighting factor Ecological focus area (if both factors are applied) Land lying fallow (per 1 m 2 ) n.a. 1 1 m 2 Terraces (per 1 m) 2 1 2 m 2 Landscape features: Hedges/wooded strips (per 1 m) 5 2 10 m 2 Isolated tree (per tree) 20 1,5 30 m 2 Trees in line (per 1 m) 5 2 10 m 2 Group of trees/Field copses (per 1 m 2 ) n.a. 1,5 1,5 m 2 Field margin (per 1 m) 6 1,5 9 m 2 Ponds (per 1 m 2 ) n.a. 1,5 1,5 m 2 Ditches (per 1 m) 3 2 6 m 2 Traditional stone walls (per 1 m) 1 1 1 m 2 Other features not listed above but protected under GAEC7, SMR 2 or SMR 3 (per 1 m 2 ) n.a. 1 1 m 2 Buffer strips (per 1 m) 6 1,5 9 m 2 Hectares of agro-forestry (per 1 m 2 ) n.a. 1 1 m 2 Strips of eligible hectares along forest edges (per 1 m) Without production With production 6 6 1,5 0,3 9 m 2 1,8 m 2 Areas with short rotation coppice (per 1 m 2 ) n.a. 0,3 0,3 m 2 Afforested areas as referred to in Article 32(2)(b)(ii) (per m 2 ) n.a. 1 1 m 2 Areas with catch crops or green cover (per 1 m 2 ) n.a. 0,3 0,3 m 2 Areas with nitrogen fixing crops (per 1 m 2 ) n.a. 0,3 0,3 m 2 ( *1 ) The conversion and weighting factors shall also apply to features included in the equivalent practices as listed in Section III of Annex IX that are the same as the features listed in this Annex and as specified in Article 45 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 639/2014 of 11 March 2014 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing rules for direct payments to farmers under support schemes within the framework of the common agricultural policy and amending Annex X to that Regulation ( OJ L 181, 20.6.2014, p. 1 ) for the sole purpose of the calculation of the ecological focus area of the holding as referred to in Article 46(1) of this Regulation.’