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

Amendments to the Common Agricultural Policy Basic Payment and Support Schemes (England) Regulations 2014

4.—(1) The Common Agricultural Policy Basic Payment and Support Schemes (England) Regulations 2014(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 8—

(a) for paragraph (1) substitute—

“(1) For the purposes of Article 8(1) of the Direct Payments Implementing Regulation, the period within which the transferor of payment entitlements must notify the Secretary of State of the transfer is one year beginning with the 16th May of the preceding calendar year to 15th May of the first calendar year in which the transferee may include those entitlements in the transferee’s application for direct payments.”;

(b) for paragraph (3) substitute—

“(3) Applications for the allocation of payment entitlements may be submitted on or before 15th May of the relevant calendar year for the purposes of—

(a) Article 22(1) of the Horizontal Implementing Regulation;

(b) Article 3 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/747 as regards the final date of submission of the single application, aid applications or payment claims, the final date for notification of amendments to the single application of payment claim and the final date for applications for allocation of payment entitlements or the increase of the value of payment entitlements under the basic payment scheme for the year 2015.”.

(3) For regulation 12 substitute—

“12.— (1) For the purposes of the first subparagraph of Article 45(1) of the Direct Payments Regulation, permanent grasslands which are sites of special scientific interest in the areas referred to in that sub-paragraph are designated as permanent grasslands which are environmentally sensitive.

(2) In paragraph (1) “site of special scientific interest” has the meaning given in section 52(1) of the Wildlife and Countryside Act 1981(2).”.

(1)

S.I. 2014/3259, amended by S.I. 2015/1325; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.

(2)

1981 c. 69; the definition of “site of special scientific interest” in section 52(1) was inserted by the Countryside and Rights of Way Act 2000 (c. 37), Schedule 9, paragraph 5(1) and (2).