The European Communities (Designation) (No. 2) Order 2002

Statutory Instruments

2002 No. 1080

EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES

The European Communities (Designation) (No. 2) Order 2002

Made

17th April 2002

Laid before Parliament

29th April 2002

Coming into force

20th May 2002

At the Court at Windsor Castle, the 17th day of April 2002

Present,

The Queen’s Most Excellent Majesty in Council

Her Majesty, in exercise of the powers conferred on Her by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(1), and section 29(1) of the Government of Wales Act 1998(2), is pleased, by and with the advice of Her Privy Council, to order, and it is hereby ordered, as follows:

Citation, commencement and interpretation

1.—(1) This Order may be cited as the European Communities (Designation) (No. 2) Order 2002 and shall come into force on 20th May 2002.

(2) In this Order—

“the Act” means the European Communities Act 1972,

“Minister or government department” means a Minister of the Crown or government department, but does not include a Northern Ireland Minister or Northern Ireland department,

“regulations” means regulations made pursuant to section 2(2) of the Act.

Designation of the National Assembly for Wales

2.—(1) For the purposes of section 2(2) of the Act, the National Assembly for Wales is designated in relation to the matter specified in the Schedule to this Order.

(2) Regulations made by the National Assembly for Wales pursuant to this Order shall apply in relation to Wales only.

(3) Where the National Assembly for Wales is designated by this Order in relation to any matter, for which any Minister or government department is designated by this or any other Order for the purposes of section 2(2) of the Act, any of them may make regulations and, if regulations are made by more than one, they may do so jointly.

A.K. Galloway

Clerk of the Privy Council

Article 2

SCHEDULE MATTER IN RELATION TO WHICH THE NATIONAL ASSEMBLY FOR WALES IS DESIGNATED

The implementation of the plans and programmes set out in the following documents—

(a) the Welsh Office’s Single Programming Document for Community Structural Measures in Rural Wales in respect of Objective 5b approved by Commission Decision No. C(95)4 of 6th January 1995,

(b) the National Assembly for Wales' West Wales and the Valleys Objective 1 Single Programming Document 2000–2006 approved by Commission Decision No. C(2000) 2049 of 24th July 2000,

(c) the National Assembly for Wales' Rural Development Plan for Wales 2000–2006 approved by Commission Decision No. C(2000)2932 of 11th October 2000,

(d) the National Assembly for Wales' East Wales Objective 2 and Transitional Programme Single Programming Document approved by Commission Decision No. C(2001)657 of 26th March 2001,

(e) the National Assembly for Wales' LEADER+ Single Programming Document for Wales 2000–2006 approved by Commission Decision No. C(2001)1379 of 2nd July 2001,

in so far as such implementation relates to the operation of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund.

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

This is a further Order in the series designating authorities which may exercise the power to make regulations conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972 and specifying the matters in relation to which that power may be exercised.

Copies of the Commission Decisions, the Single Programming Documents and the Rural Development Plan referred to in the Schedule to this Order may be inspected during normal office hours at the offices of the Welsh Assembly Government, Agriculture and Rural Affairs Department, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ.

(1)

1972 c. 68.

(2)

1998 c. 38.