Made | 22 February 2005 | ||
Coming into force | 1 March 2005 |
(2) Other expressions used in these Regulations shall be construed in accordance with the Council Regulation, Commission Regulation 795/2004, Commission Regulation 796/2004 and Commission Regulation 1973/2004.
(3) Any reference in these Regulations to a Community instrument is a reference to that instrument as amended on the date these Regulations are made.
Regional Implementation
3.
Wales is a single region for the purposes of Article 58 of the Council Regulation.
Administration and Applications
4.
The National Assembly is the competent authority for the purposes of administering the single payment scheme in Wales. The National Assembly is also the competent authority for the purposes of the initial application requirements for the single payment scheme which are specified in Article 34 of the Council Regulation.
Minimum size of holding
5.
For the purposes of Article 12(6) of Commission Regulation 795/2004, the minimum size of a holding for which the establishment of entitlements may be requested is 0.3 hectares.
10 month period
6.
For the purposes of Article 24(2) of Commission Regulation 795/2004, a farmer must choose a date for the beginning of the 10 month period referred to in Article 44(3) of the Council Regulation within a period beginning on 1 October of the calendar year of the year preceding the year of submitting an application under the single payment scheme and ending on 30 April of the year of application.
Dairy premium and additional payments
7.
In accordance with Article 62 of the Council Regulation the amounts resulting from dairy premium and additional payments, provided for in Articles 95 and 96 of the Council Regulation, which are due to farmers in Wales, are to be included in full, in the single payment scheme for Wales, starting from 2005.
Horticulture
8.
- (1) Subject to paragraph (2), in accordance with Article 51(b) second paragraph of the Council Regulation, secondary crops may be cultivated on the eligible hectares during a period of not more than three months beginning each year on 15 August.
(2) Paragraph (1) does not apply to the year beginning on 1 January 2005.
Transfers
9.
- (1) Pursuant to the third sub paragraph of Article 46(1) of the Council Regulation, payment entitlements under the single payment scheme attributable to, and established in, Wales by virtue of Article 58 of the Council Regulation, may only be used or transferred within Wales.
(2) For the purposes of Article 25(3) of Commission Regulation 795/2004, a transferor of a payment entitlement must communicate the transfer to the National Assembly no later than, six weeks before the last day for submission of the single application, but also no earlier than, six weeks before the transfer is to take place.
Additional modulation
10.
- (1) For the purposes of calculating the total amount of direct payments to be paid to a farmer for any year, the National Assembly will deduct a sum equal to the specified proportion of the relevant amount and will apply the sum so deducted by way of funds for one or more of the relevant purposes[9].
(2) In this regulation -
Aid for energy crops
11.
- (1) Regulations 12 and 13 apply where an applicant uses areas covered by the aid provided for in Article 88 of the Council Regulation for the growing of agricultural raw materials under Article 24 of Commission Regulation 1973/2004 and references to raw materials shall be construed accordingly.
(2) The National Assembly is the competent authority for the purposes of Chapter 8 of Commission Regulation 1973/2004 (Aid for energy crops).
(3) In this regulation "applicant" has the meaning given to it in Article 23 of Commission Regulation 1973/2004.
Provisions relating to raw material
12.
- (1) For the purposes of Article 43(2) of Commission Regulation 1973/2004, the minimum cultivated area for any raw material referred to in Article 24 of that Regulation is 0.1 hectares.
(2) Where the National Assembly excludes any agricultural raw material from aid for energy crops in accordance with Article 43(1) of Commission Regulation 1973/2004, the National Assembly must notify the farmers concerned stating, with reasons, the details and duration of the exclusion.
(3) Raw materials to which Article 25(2)(b) of Commission Regulation 1973/2004 applies must be weighed by an operator of public weighing equipment holding a certificate issued under section 18 of the Weights and Measures Act 1985[11].
(4) For the purposes of Article 25(4) of Commission Regulation 1973/2004, cereals, oilseeds, and oil produced by processing oilseeds, to which that paragraph applies, must be denatured by dying them with a brightly coloured dye.
(5) For the purposes of Article 34(1) of Commission Regulation 1973/2004, the last day on which a contract to which that paragraph applies may be deposited with the National Assembly is the last day for submission of the relevant single application.
(6) For the purposes of Article 34(3) of Commission Regulation 1973/2004, the last day on which a first processor to whom that paragraph applies may provide the National Assembly with the information specified in that paragraph is the 9 February of the year following the year in which the relevant single application is made.
(7) In this regulation -
Keeping and retention of records
13.
- (1) For the purposes of Article 39 of Commission Regulation 1973/2004 on any day during which a processor purchases, processes, destroys, sells or otherwise dispose of any raw materials he or she must make a record showing (as the case may be) -
(2) A processor shall retain the records referred to in paragraph (1) for four years from -
Revocations and savings
14.
- (1) Subject to paragraph (2), the Common Agricultural Policy Support Schemes (Modulation)(Wales) Regulations 2000[12], regulation 2(1) of the Abolition of the Intervention Board for Agricultural Produce (Consequential Provisions)(Wales) Regulations 2001[13] and the Common Agricultural Policy Support Schemes (Modulation)(Wales)(Amendment) Regulations 2004[14] are revoked.
(2) The Common Agricultural Policy Support Schemes (Modulation)(Wales) Regulations 2000 continue to apply for the purposes of direct payments in respect of scheme years which began before 2005.
(3) Subject to paragraphs (4) and (5), and in so far as they apply to Wales, the Arable Area Payments Regulations 1996[15], the Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1997[16], the Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1998[17], the Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1999[18] and the Sheep Annual Premium and Suckler Cow Premium Quotas Regulations 2003[19], are revoked.
(4) Regulation 12 of the Arable Area Payments 1996 (delivery notifications for non food raw materials) shall continue to apply in respect of farmers, collectors and first processors who make the declaration or provide the information mentioned in that regulation (as the case may be) after the coming into force of these Regulations.
(5) Paragraph (1), (4) and (5) of regulation 14 of the Arable Area Payments Regulations 1996 (keeping and retention of records by a collector and a processor) shall continue to apply in respect of processors who purchased, after the coming into force of these Regulations, Annex I raw materials.
(6) Subject to paragraph (8), the Regulations specified in the Schedule are revoked to the extent there specified, in so far as the National Assembly is the relevant competent authority in relation to the holding for the purposes of the IACS Regulations.
(7) In this regulation "Annex I raw materials", "farmer" and "processor" have the meanings given to them in the Arable Area Payments Regulations 1996.
(8) The Regulations revoked by paragraph (3) and (6) shall continue to apply in respect of applications for direct payments in respect of calendar years preceding 2005.
Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales under section 66(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998[20]
D. Elis-Thomas
The Presiding Officer of the National Assembly
22 February 2005
Regulations revoked | Reference | Extent of revocation |
The Sheep Annual Premium Regulations 1992 | S.I. 1992/2677 | The whole Regulations |
The Sheep Annual Premium (Amendment) Regulations 1994 | S.I. 1994/2741 | The whole Regulations |
The Sheep Annual Premium (Amendment) Regulations 1995 | S.I. 1995/2779 | The whole Regulations |
The Sheep Annual Premium (Amendment) Regulations 1996 | S.I. 1996/49 | The whole Regulations |
The Sheep Annual Premium (Amendment) Regulations 1997 | S.I. 1997/2500 | The whole Regulations |
Extensification Payment Regulations 2001 | S.I. 2001/864 | The whole Regulations |
The Slaughter Premium (Wales) Regulations 2001 | S.I. 2001/1332 (W.82) | The whole regulations |
Suckler Cow Premium Regulations 2001 | S.I. 2001/1370 | The whole regulations |
Beef Special Premium Regulations 2001 | S.I. 2001/2503 | Regulations 10 to 14 |
The Sheep Annual Premium (Amendment)(Wales) Regulations 2003 | S.I. 2003/151 (W.21) | The whole regulations |
Regulation 10 requires the National Assembly to deduct a sum equal to a specified proportion (1.5% in the year 2005, and 0.5% in the year 2006) from the total amount of direct payments to be paid to a farmer. The amounts deducted are to be applied as additional support for rural development measures.
Regulations 11 to 13 apply where an applicant uses areas covered by the aid provided for in Article 88 of the Council Regulation (aid for energy crops) for the growing of agricultural raw materials under Article 24 of Commission Regulation 1973/2004 and provide as follows -
Regulation 13 lays down the records that must be kept by processors in respect of any such raw materials purchased by them and the period for which such records should be kept.
Regulation 15 revokes various Regulations with savings.
A regulatory appraisal on the effect of the Single Payment Scheme has been prepared and is available for inspection at the offices of the National Assembly for Wales, Department of Environment, Planning and Countryside, Crown Buildings, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ.
[3] The power of the National Assembly for Wales to make, as a body designated in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, regulations which extend to holdings which include land situated within the United Kingdom but outside Wales is confirmed by paragraph 2(b) of Schedule 2 to S.I. 1999/2788.back
[4] O.J. No. L 141, 30.4.2004, p1, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1974/2004 (O.J. No. L 345, 20.11.2004, p.85).back
[5] O.J. No. L 141, 30.4.2004, p18.back
[6] O.J. No. L 345, 20.1.2004, p.1.back
[7] O.J. No. L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 1, as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 864/2004 (O.J. No. L 161, 30.4.2004, p.48 as corrected by a corrigendum at O.J. No. L 206, 9.6.2004, p.20).back
[9] Additional modulation is permitted under Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1655/2004 (O.J. No. L 298, 23.9.2004, p.3.) in Member States which applied reductions to direct payments under Article 4 of Council Regulation 1259/1999 (O.J. No. L 160, 26.6.1999, p.113). Such reductions were applied in Wales from 2001 to 2004 under the Common Agricultural Policy Support Schemes (Modulation) (Wales) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/3294 (W.216), amended by S.I. 2001/3680 (W.301) and 2004/2662) (W.233).back
[10] O.J. No. L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 80 as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 583/2004 (O.J. No. L91, 30.3.2004, p.1.).back
[12] S.I. 2000/3294 (W.216), as amended by S.I. 2001/3680 (W.301), and S.I. 2004/2662 (W.233).back
[13] S.I. 2001/3680 (W.301).back
[14] S.I. 2004/2662 (W.233).back