The Agriculture (Payments) (Amendment, etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020

The Common Agricultural Policy and Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019

11.—(1) The Common Agricultural Policy and Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019(1) are amended as follows.

(2) Omit regulation 4.

(3) In regulation 5—

(a) omit paragraph (2)(b);

(b) in paragraph (9), omit “direct payments and”;

(c) after paragraph (9), insert the following paragraph—

“(10) Omit regulation 36(2).”.

(4) After regulation 6, insert—

“Saving provisions

7.   The Environmental Stewardship Regulations 2005(2) apply in respect of any programme or activity to which Article 138 of the withdrawal agreement applies as if the amendments made by regulation 2 had not been made.

8.   The Common Agricultural Policy (Control and Enforcement, Cross-Compliance, Scrutiny of Transactions and Appeals) Regulations 2014(3) apply in respect of any programme or activity to which Article 138 of the withdrawal agreement applies as if the amendments made by regulation 5 had not been made and any reference to a Regulation originating from the European Union in those Regulations is to be read as a reference to that Regulation as it has effect in EU law.

9.   Regulations 1 to 3 of the Common Agricultural Policy (Competent Authority and Coordinating Body) Regulations 2014(4) continue to apply in respect of any programmes or activities to which Article 138 of the withdrawal agreement applies as if the revocation made by regulation 6 had not been made.”.

(1)

S.I. 2019/733.

(2)

S.I. 2005/621, amended by S.I. 2019/733; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.

(3)

S.I. 2014/3263, amended by S.I. 2019/733; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.

(4)

S.I. 2014/3260, amended by S.I. 2019/733.