The Dairy Produce Quotas (Wales) Regulations 2005

Obligations of producers and purchasers with respect to registration and deliveries

6.—(1) Every —

(a) direct seller; and

(b) wholesale producer,

must register his or her quota with the National Assembly.

(2) Each purchaser must maintain, in respect of all wholesale producers whose register entries include that purchaser’s name on the list referred to in regulation 4(4)(e) —

(a) a register corresponding to that maintained by the National Assembly under regulation 4(3) in respect of that part of his or her purchaser quota attributable to each of those producers;

(b) a register of particulars of deliveries from each of those producers to that purchaser; and

(c) the information required by paragraphs 2 to 4 of Article 24 of the Commission Regulation (which concerns the records required in connection with levy assessment).

(3) Each person who holds registered wholesale quota, including any producer who has temporarily ceased or who intends temporarily to cease making deliveries, must register his or her quota with a purchaser.

(4) A wholesale producer may supply milk only to a purchaser.

(5) Each purchaser must maintain a system approved by the National Assembly for —

(a) sampling the milk of each wholesale producer whose register entries include the purchaser’s name on the list referred to in regulation 4(4)(e); and

(b) determining its fat content.

(6) Each purchaser must amend the register referred to in paragraph (2)(a) on each occasion when he or she is notified by the National Assembly that the equivalent register maintained by the National Assembly has been amended in relation to wholesale producers registered in that purchaser’s register.