The Food and Farming (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

PART 4 Amendment of subordinate legislation relating to direct payments to farmers

The Common Agricultural Policy (Direct Payments to Farmers) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

14.—(1) The Common Agricultural Policy (Direct Payments to Farmers) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019(1) are amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2) In regulation 5(23)(a), in the substituted text, after “grasslands” insert “which are environmentally sensitive”.

The Common Agricultural Policy (Rules for Direct Payments) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

15.—(1) The Common Agricultural Policy (Rules for Direct Payments) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019(2) are amended in accordance with paragraph (2).

(2) In regulation 6—

(a) for paragraph (6)(b)(ii) substitute—

“(ii) omit the words from “a change”, in the second place it occurs, to “scheme”;

(iii) for “a Member State” substitute “the relevant authority”;

(iv) omit the last sentence.”;

(b) for paragraph (7)(a)(ii) substitute—

“(ii) in the second subparagraph—

(aa) for “Member State”, in the first place it occurs, substitute “relevant authority”;

(bb) omit the last sentence;”;

(c) in paragraph (8)—

(i) for sub-paragraph (a) substitute—

“(a) in paragraph 2, in the first subparagraph—

(i) after “production”, in the first place it occurs, insert “during the period fixed by the relevant authority”;

(ii) omit the second and third sentences;

(iii) for “Member States”, in the second place it occurs, substitute “the relevant authority”;

(iv) for “Member States”, in the third place it occurs, substitute “The relevant authority;”;

(ii) after sub-paragraph (g) insert—

“(ga) in paragraph 8a—

(i) for “Member States”, in the first place it occurs, substitute “the relevant authority”;

(ii) for “Member States”, in the second place it occurs, substitute “The relevant authority”;”;

(iii) for sub-paragraph (j) substitute—

“(j) in paragraph 10a, in the second subparagraph, for the words from “However” to “allow” substitute “Nothing in this Article prevents the relevant authority, using any power the relevant authority has, from allowing”.”.

(1)

S.I. 2019/207.

(2)

S.I. 2019/208.