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Single Payment Scheme
The Single Payment Scheme (SPS) is the main agricultural subsidy scheme in the EU. It was replaced by the Basic Payment Scheme in 2015.
The Basic Payment Scheme (BPS) replaced SPS on 1 January 2015. Go to to find out more.
In England, SPS is administered by the Rural Payments Agency (RPA).
You can’t apply for an SPS payment anymore because the deadline for 2014 has now passed.
SPS regulations
Submit a query online
Contact form
To contact the Rural Payments Agency, send a query using the Rural Payments service.
Sign in to your Rural Payments account and go to ‘Create or view a query’, this covers most of our schemes and services.
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Updates to this page
Published 10 July 2014