The Dairy Produce Quotas Amendment (No. 2) (Scotland) Regulations 2000

5.  In regulation 6 (adjustment of purchaser quota)–

(a) in paragraph (2)–

(i) the words “or on any permanent conversion of quota under regulation 16," and the words “or such a conversion of quota" shall be omitted;

(ii) for sub-paragraph (a) there shall be substituted the following sub paragraph:–

“(a) within 56 days of the date of such transaction and in any case on or before 14th May in the quota year immediately following the quota year in which that transaction took place, a statement setting out particulars of the transaction; and”;

(b) in paragraph (4)–

(i) for the word “Where" at the beginning of that paragraph there shall be substituted the words “ Subject to paragraph (4A), where ”;

(ii) in sub-paragraph (a), for the words “have his purchaser quota" there shall be substituted the words “ request of the Intervention Board (in such form as the latter may reasonably require) that his purchaser quota be ”;

(c) after paragraph (4) there shall be inserted the following paragraphs:–

“(4A) Where the amount of quota necessary to cover the deliveries made to an original purchaser and referred to in paragraph (4)(b) is affected by an adjustment of the quantity delivered by the producer (being an adjustment in accordance with the second sub-paragraph of Article 2(2) of the Commission Regulation)–

(a) in the event that an increase in such original purchaser’s quota is necessary to cover the deliveries made to him by the producer, the original purchaser may apply to the Intervention Board (in such form as the latter may reasonably require) to assess and make such increase, and make a corresponding reduction in the purchaser quota of the purchaser (or purchasers) with whom the producer is newly registered; and

(b) in the event that a reduction is capable of being made to the quota of an original purchaser who has more than is necessary to cover the deliveries made to him by the producer, any purchaser with whom the producer is newly registered and who requires an increase in purchaser quota to cover the deliveries made by the producer to him may apply to the Intervention Board (in such form as the latter may reasonably require) to assess and make the appropriate reduction, and make a corresponding increase in the purchaser quota of the said purchaser with whom the producer is newly registered,

and in each case upon such application the Intervention Board shall make the assessment requested and the appropriate adjustment.

(4B) An application under paragraph (4A)(a) or (b) shall be made no later than 15th June in the quota year immediately following the quota year during which the producer changed from being registered with the original purchaser to being registered with the other purchaser in question.”.