The Agricultural Commodities (Coronavirus)(Income Support) Scheme No. 2 (Northern Ireland) 2021

Interpretation

2.  In this Scheme–

“APHIS” means the Animal and Public Health Information System operated by the Department;

“applicant” except in relation to an application for review under article 9 means a pig producer, a potato producer or a sheep producer who makes an application;

“application” means an application for an income support payment made in accordance with article 3(4);

“business ID” means a number issued by the Department to a farm business and which in the case of a pig producer, or a sheep producer identifies that producer on APHIS;

“the Department” means the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs;

“first purchaser” means a person who purchases for processing a pig from a pig producer or, as the case may be, wool from a sheep producer;

“income support payment” means a payment made under article 5(1), 6(1) or 7(1);

“pig producer” means a person with a business ID who raises pigs for the purpose of sale as pig meat or pig meat products to a first purchaser;

“potato producer” means a person with a business ID who produces potatoes for sale as potatoes;

“sheep producer” means a person with a business ID who raises sheep for the purpose of sale of the animal, or its fleece for processing to a first purchaser;

“the 2019 sheep inventory” means the inventory provided by sheep producers to the Department for 2019, in accordance with the requirements of The Sheep and Goats (Records, Identification and Movements) Order (Northern Ireland) 2009(1);

“slaughtered” means slaughtered at a slaughterhouse (within the meaning of point 1.16 of Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 853/2004(2) of the European Parliament and of the Council laying down specific hygiene rules for food of animal origin and approved or conditionally approved under Article 4 of that Regulation.

(1)

S.R. 2009 No. 411

(2)

O.J. L139, 30.04.2004