The Rules for Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020

[F1 Amendment of Title 4 to 6 (Coupled support, small farmers scheme and national restructuring programmes for the cotton sector) U.K.

6.— (1) In Article 52—

(a) in paragraph 1, for “Member States” substitute “The relevant authority”;

(b) in paragraph 3, for “Member State” substitute “constituent nation”;

(c) in paragraph 6, for the words from “determined” to the end substitute “jointly agreed by the relevant authorities for each constituent nation.”;

(d) in paragraph 7, for “Members States” substitute “the relevant authority”;

(e) in paragraph 8, for “other Union measures and policies” substitute “measures provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 and Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and any other measures specified for the purposes of this paragraph by virtue of paragraph 9”.

(f) in paragraph 9—

(i) for “Union funds” substitute “agricultural support”;

(ii) for the words from “Commission” to “Article 70” substitute “Secretary of State may make regulations”;

(iii) for “Union Measures” substitute “measures provided for in Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 and Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and any other measures specified for the purposes of this paragraph by virtue of paragraph 9”;

(g) in paragraph 10—

(i) for the words from “Commission” to “Article 70” substitute “Secretary of State may make regulations”;

(ii) for “delegated acts”, in the second place it appears, substitute “regulations”;

(iii) for “Member States to decide that such support may” substitute “for support to”;

(h) after paragraph 10 insert—

“11.   The Secretary of State may not make regulations under paragraph 9 or 10 without the consent of each of the relevant authorities for Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

Where the relevant authority for Wales, Scotland or Northern Ireland requests that the Secretary of State makes regulations under paragraph 9 or 10, the Secretary of State must have regard to that request.”.

(2) In Article 53—

(a) for paragraph 1 substitute—

“1.   Up to 8% of the annual national ceiling set out in Annex II may be used to finance the coupled support.”;

(b) omit paragraph 2;

(c) in paragraph 3—

(i) for “paragraphs 1 and 2” substitute “paragraph 1”;

(ii) for “for those Member States which decide to use” substitute “if”;

(iii) for “their” substitute “the”;

(iv) after “Annex II” insert “is used”;

(d) omit paragraph 4;

(e) in paragraph 5—

(i) omit “Member States may choose to use”;

(ii) after “year” insert “may be used”;

(f) for paragraph 6 substitute—

“6.   Where a decision has been reviewed and notified to the Commission by 1 August 2019 pursuant to this Chapter, it will have effect in calendar year 2020.”;

(g) omit paragraph 7.

(3) Omit Articles 54 to 67.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Regulations revoked (E.) (1.1.2024) by The Agriculture (Delinked Payments and Consequential Provisions) (England) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/1430), reg. 1(2)(a), Sch. 3 para. 1 Table 2 (with Sch. 3 Pt. 2)

Commencement Information

I1 Reg. 6 in force at 31.1.2020 at 11.00 p.m. on exit day (in accordance with 2018 c. 16, s. 20(1)-(5)), see reg. 1(2)