Amendment of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/1829
3.—(1) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/1829 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1144/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council on information provision and promotion measures concerning agricultural products implemented in the internal market and in third countries is amended as follows.
(2) In Article 1—
(a)in the heading, omit “or multi”;
(b)in paragraph 1(a), for “a Member State or at Union level” substitute “the United Kingdom”;
(c)in paragraph 1(a)(i), for “Member State concerned or at Union level” substitute “constituent nation or the United Kingdom as a whole”;
(d)in paragraph 1(a)(ii), for “by the Member State” substitute “in the United Kingdom”;
(e)in paragraph 1(c), for “by the Member State” substitute “in the United Kingdom”;
(f)at the end, insert—
“5. In this Regulation, “constituent nation” means England, Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland, as the case may be.”.
(3) In Article 2(2), for “national legislation” substitute “retained EU law”.
(4) In Article 3—
(a)in paragraph 1(a), for “Union law” substitute “retained EU law”;
(b)omit paragraph 1(b);
(c)for paragraph 1(c), substitute—
“(c)relate to the promotion of United Kingdom agricultural products, both in terms of content of the message and impact. In particular it must provide information on production standards, the quality and safety of food products and dietary practices and culture, promote the image of United Kingdom products both within the United Kingdom and abroad, and raise awareness of United Kingdom products and logos among the general public and commercial undertakings. This means in particular for a programme covering one or more schemes as referred to in Article 5(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1144/2014, to focus on the scheme or schemes in the main message of the campaign. When in this programme, one or several products illustrate the scheme or schemes, they shall appear as a secondary message in relation to the main message of the campaign;”;
(d)in paragraph 2(a)—
(i)for “internal market” substitute “United Kingdom”;
(ii)for “national authority” substitute “relevant authority”;
(iii)for “Member State” substitute “constituent nation”;
(e)at the end, insert—
“3. In this Article, “relevant authority” means—
in relation to England, the Secretary of State;
in relation to Wales, the Welsh Ministers;
in relation to Scotland, the Scottish Ministers;
in relation to Northern Ireland, the Department of Health.”.
(5) In Article 4—
(a)in the heading, for “Union funding” substitute “funding under Regulation (EU) No 1144/2014”;
(b)in paragraph 1, for “Union funding” substitute “funding under Regulation (EU) No 1144/2014”;
(c)in paragraph 1(d)—
(i)after “to the applicable” insert “national”;
(ii)omit “of the Member State where the proposing organisation is established”;
(d)in paragraph 2—
(i)for “Union funding” substitute “funding under Regulation (EU) No 1144/2014”;
(ii)at point (d), for the words from “non-taxable person” to the end, substitute “body exempt from VAT by virtue of section 41A of the Value Added Tax Act 1994(1)”.
(6) After Article 7, omit the words from “This Regulation” to “Member States.”.