The Rural Development (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 U.K.

13.  To the extent that Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) continues to apply to virtue of continues to apply by virtue of the savings contained in Article 49 of Regulation (EC) No 1750/1999 M1 , Article 55 of Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 M2 , Article 93 of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 M3 and Article 88 of Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013, Regulation (EEC) No 2078/1992 is to be read as if—

(a) Articles 1(1), 4-21, 25-28, 34-36, 39(2), 49-56 (which have no continuing operative effect) were omitted;

(b) in Article 1—

(i) for paragraph 2 there were substituted as follows—

“2.   Rural development measures must accompany and complement direct payment support and CMO support.”;

(ii) in paragraph 3, the last subparagraph were substituted as follows—

“in the regions concerned, taking into account the specific targets of support under these objectives.”.

(iii) at the end were inserted—

“4.   In these Regulations—

(a) “CMO support” means financial support granted under Regulation 1308/2013 or under any of the delegated or implementing acts adopted on the basis of that regulation or on the basis of Regulation 1234/2007;

(c) “direct payment support” means financial support granted under any of the support schemes listed in Annex I to Regulation 1307/2013;

(d) “relevant authority” means—

(i) in England, the Secretary of State;

(ii) in Northern Ireland, the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs;

(iii) in Scotland, the Scottish Ministers;

(iv) in Wales, the Welsh Ministers;

(e) “support for rural development” means financial support granted under Title 3 of Regulation 1305/2013 or Title 3, Chapter 2 of Regulation (EU) No 1303/2013, as amended by the European Structural and Investment Funds Common Provisions (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019.”.

(c) in Article 22, for “Community's policy objectives” there were substituted “ the policy objectives in Article 1 ”.

(d) in Article 24(2), for “Community support” there were substituted “ support for rural development ”.

(e) in Article 29—

(i) in paragraph 4 for “Community and the Member States” there were substituted “ United Kingdom ”;

(ii) in paragraph 5—

(aa) for “the Community” there were substituted “ European Union ”;

(bb) for “Member States” there were substituted “ relevant authorities ”.

(f) in Article 31(4), for “Community support” there were substituted “ support for rural development ”;

(g) in Article 33—

(i) for “Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003,” there were substituted “ Articles 93 and 94 of and Annex 2 to Regulation 1306/2013 ”;

(ii) the last sentence were omitted;

(h) Articles 33a-33m were omitted;

(i) in Article 37—

(i) in paragraph 1, for “Community law” there were substituted “ the law as it applies in England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, as the case may be ”;

(ii) in paragraph 2, in both places it occurs, “Community” were omitted;

(iii) in paragraph 3, for “other instruments of the common agricultural policy” there were substituted “ CMO support and direct payment support ”;

(iv) in paragraph 4—

(v) for “Member States” there were substituted “ The relevant authority ”;

(vi) “Community” were omitted.

(j) in Article 38(1), “Community” were omitted.

(k) in Article 39, for “Member States” there were substituted “ The relevant authority ”.

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 13 in force at 31.12.2020 on IP completion day (in accordance with 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)), see reg. 1

Marginal Citations

M1 Commission Regulation (EC) No 1750/1999 of 23 July 1999 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) (Official Journal L 214 , 13/08/1999 P. 0031).

M2 Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 was repealed by Article 93 of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005, but under Article 93(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005, Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 continues to apply to actions approved by the European Commission under Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 before 1st January 2007.

M3 Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 was repealed by Article 88 of Regulation 1305/2013, but under Article 88 of Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013, Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 continues to apply to operations implemented pursuant to programmes approved by the European Commission under Regulation 1698/2005 before 1st January 2014.