Statutory Instruments
AGRICULTURE
Made
24th October 1995
Laid before Parliament
25th October 1995
Coming into force
15th November 1995
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, being Ministers designated(1) for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972(2) in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred on them by the said section 2(2), and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:
1. These Regulations may be cited as the Sheep Annual Premium (Amendment) Regulations 1995, shall extend to Great Britain and shall come into force on 15th November 1995.
2.—(1) The Sheep Annual Premium Regulations 1992(3) shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraphs of this regulation.
(2) In the definition of “the Commission Regulation” in paragraph (1) of regulation 2 (interpretation) insert at the end “as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1648/95(4)”.
(3) The following paragraph shall be substituted for paragraph (2) of regulation 3 (application for a premium)—
“(2) A producer who applies for a premium in respect of a given marketing year shall deliver his application to the competent authority—
(a)on or after 4th December in the preceding marketing year; but
(b)not later than 4th February in that marketing year.”.
Tony Baldry
Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
23rd October 1995
Lindsay
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
24th October 1995
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
1. These Regulations amend the Sheep Annual Premium Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2677, as amended by S.I. 1994/2741).
2. Like those 1992 Regulations, these Regulations extend to Great Britain only.
3. The definition of “the Commission Regulation”found in regulation 2(1) is altered to reflect amendments made to that Community instrument, one of which extends the period allowed for making late claims, albeit with penalties being applied.
4. A revised paragraph (2) of regulation 3 is substituted for the existing paragraph so numbered in that regulation, with the effect that a producer making an application for sheep annual premium in respect of a particular marketing year, as defined by Article 3(3) of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3013/89 (OJ No. L289, 7.10.89, p.1), shall deliver his application on or after 4th December in the preceding marketing year but not later than 4th February in the marketing year concerned. The change in application period effected by new regulation 3(2) conforms with Article 1(2) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 2700/93 (OJ No. L245, 1.10.93, p.99).
5. Article 5 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3013/89 continues to provide the legal base for the making of sheep annual premium payments.
6. No compliance cost assessment has been prepared.