Notification of wild oats
You must always notify a municipality’s Rural Livelihood Authority about wild oats. Anyone can submit a notification, such as the holder of the area or a wild oats inspector.
The notification is followed by a wild oats inspection and the area in question is added to the register of wild oats. In addition to this, the holder receives instructions for controlling wild oats.
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Requirements
If the trader is established in another EEA state and provides services in Finland on a temporary basis, they are required to have the same permits as the traders established in Finland.
Instructions
Report wild oats to the municipal Rural Livelihood Authority. If you notice wild oats on land under your control, submit a notification of this as soon as possible during the growing season, but no later than in connection with the next application for area-based subsidies.
If the area where the plants of wild oats are growing is not covered by the subsidy application, submit a free-form notification to the Rural Livelihood Authority. Please include the following in the notification:
- your name and contact details
- an estimate of the occurrence’s size
- whether any control actions have been taken
- the degree of detected wild oats contamination.
Submit a notification to the Rural Livelihood Authority also if you notice wild oats on someone else’s land. Please include the following in the notification:
- your name (not mandatory, not disclosed to the holder of the area)
- the name of the area holder (not always known to the notifier)
- the number of the basic field or description of the location of wild oats contamination (the basic field number is not usually known to the notifier)
- whether the wild oats have been identified
- an estimate of the occurrence’s size
- whether any individual plants have been eradicated
- whether any control actions have been taken
- whether the holder of the area has been notified.
After receiving the notification of wild oats, the Rural Livelihood Authority will perform a wild oats inspection on the area and give the holder of the area instructions on how to control the wild oats as soon as possible.
Payment information
The service is free of charge.
Deadline
The notification of wild oats can be submitted at any time. The holder of the area must notify about the wild oats as soon as possible during the growing season and no later than in connection to the next application for area-based subsidies.