Explanatory Note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations (“the Regulations”) amend the Integrated Administration and Control System Regulations 1993 (“the 1993 Regulations”), which make provision for the implementation in part of Council Regulation 3508/92 and Commission Regulation 3887/92 (as defined in Regulation 2(1) of the 1993 Regulations), by making further provision for the implementation of the Community Instruments referred to above.
The Regulations—
(a)amend the definition of “specified payment” in regulation 2(1) of the 1993 Regulations, so that a “specified payment” now includes a payment of sheep annual premium and of the compensatory allowance payable for certain hill livestock;
(b)amend the definition of Council Regulation 1765/92 in the same regulation to include amendments made to that Regulation since the 1993 Regulations were made;
(c)insert into the same regulation a definition of Commission Regulation 762/94 and amend the drafting of “agricultural parcel” in the same regulation, and of regulation 4, to conform with the drafting of the Arable Area Payments Regulations 1994 and to bring up to date the references to Community Instruments; and
(d)insert regulation 4A to define any sum falling to be reimbursed under Article 14(1) of Commission Regulation 3887/92 as a debt.
A compliance cost assessment has been prepared and has been deposited in the Libraries of both Houses of Parliament.