The Dairy Produce Quotas Regulations 1994

Conversion of quota

18.—(1) Subject to the provisions of Article 4(2) of the Council Regulation (which deals with changes from direct sales to wholesale delivery and vice versa), the second subparagraph of Article 2(2) of the Council Regulation (which deals with replacements of purchasers) and this regulation, a producer may apply to convert, temporarily or permanently, direct sales quota for wholesale quota or wholesale quota for direct sales quota.

(2) Where a producer wishes to convert quota permanently or temporarily in any quota year, he shall submit to the Intervention Board an application in a form from time to time prescribed for that purpose by the Intervention Board and such application shall—

(a) state the amount (if any) of the producer’s direct sales quota, wholesale quota, direct sales and wholesale deliveries for the quota year in which the application is made, and the amount of unused quota which he holds at the time of the application and which he wishes the Intervention Board to convert; and

(b) include such other information as the Intervention Board may reasonably require in order to assess whether the requirements of Article 4(2) of the Council Regulation and Article 2 of the Commission Regulation are fulfilled.

(3) The application referred to in paragraph (2) above shall be made by the producer to the Intervention Board by—

(a) 31st December in any year in the case of permanent conversion of quota; or

(b) 28th April in any year following the end of the quota year in which the temporary conversion of quota takes place, in the case of temporary conversion of quota.

(4) Where a producer has permanently converted quota in any quota year, he shall not subsequently in that quota year transfer quota, whether temporarily or otherwise.