The Common Agricultural Policy Support Schemes (Modulation) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2004

Amendment of The Common Agricultural Policy Support Schemes (Modulation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000

3.  The Common Agricultural Policy Support Schemes (Modulation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000(1) shall be amended as follows –

(a) in regulation 2, by the deletion of the word “IACS”;

(b) in regulation 3(2) –

(i) by the deletion of the definitions of “IACS support scheme” and “LFA supplement”;

(ii) by the insertion at the end of the definition of “the Council Regulation” of the words “, as last amended by the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded”(2);

(iii) by the insertion at the end of the definition of “Council Regulation 3508/92” of the words “, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 495/2001”(3);

(iv) in the definitions of “farmer” and “holding”, by the substitution for the words “Article 1(4)” of the words “Article 1(3)”;

(v) in the definition of “relevant purposes”, by the substitution for the words “Articles 13 to 24 (inclusive)” of the words “Articles 13 to 20, Articles 22 to 24”; and

(vi) by the insertion at the end of the definition of “the Rural Development Regulation” of the words “, as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 583/2004”(4).

(vii) by the substitution for the definition of “support scheme” of the following definition –

““support scheme” means any support scheme falling within Annex I to the Council Regulation.”.

(1)

S.R. 2000 No. 346 as amended by S.I. 2001/3686

(2)

O.J. No. L236, 23.09.2003, p. 346 (see, in particular, Annex II, part 6, paragraph 27). The Council Regulation (Council Regulation (EC) No. 1259/1999 (O.J. No. L160, 26.06.1999, p. 113)), was repealed by Article 153(4) of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1782/2003 (O.J. No. L270, 21.10.2003, p. 1) but remains in force for certain purposes by virtue of that Article

(3)

O.J. No. L072, 14.03.2001, p. 6. Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3508/92 was repealed by Article 153(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1782/2003, but continues to apply to applications for direct payments in respect of the calendar years preceding 2005 by virtue of that Article

(4)

O.J. No. L091, 30.03.2004, p. 1