2003 No. 1512
AGRICULTURE
CEREALS MARKETING

The Home-Grown Cereals Authority (Rate of Levy) Order 2003

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
Whereas the Home-Grown Cereals Authority (“the Authority”), established under Part I of the Cereals Marketing Act 19651 (“the Act”), have prepared and submitted to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (“the Secretary of State”)2, the National Assembly for Wales (“the National Assembly”), the Scottish Ministers and the Northern Ireland Department of Agriculture and Rural Development (“the Northern Ireland Department”), pursuant to section 13(1)3 of the Act, an estimate of the amount required to be raised by levy imposed on persons specified in the Home-Grown Cereals Authority Levy Scheme 19874 and in the Home-Grown Cereals Authority Oilseeds Levy Scheme 19905 (“the Schemes”) for the period of twelve months beginning on 1st July 2003 (“the relevant year”) for the purposes of the Authority’s functions under Part I of the Act;
And whereas, pursuant to section 13(2) of the Act, the Authority duly submitted to the Secretary of State, the National Assembly, the Scottish Ministers and the Northern Ireland Department, together with such estimate, proposals as to the kinds of home-grown cereals6 in respect of which a levy should be imposed and as to the apportionment of the amount specified in the estimate as between those kinds of home-grown cereals;

And whereas, pursuant to section 13(3) of the Act, the Secretary of State and the National Assembly —

(a)

have determined that the amount to be raised by levy for the relevant year for such purposes shall be £11,230,000 and that the kinds of home-grown cereals in respect of which the levy is to be imposed for the relevant year shall be wheat (including durum wheat), barley, oats, rye, maize, triticale or any two or more of those cereals grown as one crop, and rapeseed, linseed, soyabean, sunflowerseed or any two or more of those oilseeds grown as one crop; and

(b)

have apportioned the amount so determined as between those cereals and those oilseeds so that the amount to be raised by levy in respect of the cereals is £10,093,000 and the amount to be so raised in respect of the oilseeds is £1,137,000 and the rates of levy on each kind of cereal or each kind of oilseed respectively are the same;

Now therefore, the Secretary of State and the National Assembly, acting jointly, in exercise of the powers conferred upon them by sections 13(3), 23(1) and 24(1) of the Act, and now vested in them7, and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, and with the consent of the Scottish Ministers8 and the Northern Ireland Department9, hereby make the following Order:

Title and commencement1.

This Order may be cited as the Home-Grown Cereals Authority (Rate of Levy) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 1st July 2003.

Interpretation2.

In this Order expressions have the same meaning as they have in the Schemes.

Rates of Levy3.

(1)

For the relevant year the rates of levy per tonne of cereals delivered which appears to the Secretary of State and the National Assembly to be sufficient (but not more than sufficient) to meet the amount apportioned to each kind of cereal shall in each case be –

(a)

50.8775 pence in respect of dealer levy,

(b)

47 pence in respect of grower levy,

(c)

9.69375 pence in respect of standard rate processor levy, and

(d)

4.7 pence in respect of reduced rate processor levy.

(2)

For the relevant year the rate of levy per tonne of oilseeds delivered which appears to the Secretary of State and the National Assembly to be sufficient (but not more than sufficient) to meet the amount apportioned to each kind of oilseed shall in each case be 76.375 pence.

Whitty
Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,
Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales

D. Elis-Thomas
Presiding Officer

We consent

Ross Finnie
A member of the Scottish Executive

We consent

D. Small
Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

Northern Ireland

(This note is not part of the Order)

For the purposes of financing the Home-Grown Cereals Authority’s non-trading functions under Part I of the Cereals Marketing Act 1965 for the year beginning on 1st July 2003, this Order specifies the rates of dealer levy, grower levy and processor levies which appear to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the National Assembly for Wales to be sufficient to meet the amount apportioned to certain cereals grown in the United Kingdom, namely, wheat (including durum wheat), barley, oats, rye, maize, triticale, or any two or more such cereals grown as one crop, and the rate of levy which appears to them to be sufficient to meet the amount apportioned to certain oilseeds grown in the United Kingdom, namely rapeseed, linseed, soyabean, sunflowerseed or any two or more of such oilseeds grown as one crop.

Levy will be imposed in accordance with the provisions of the Home-Grown Cereals Authority Cereals Levy Scheme 1987 (as varied) and the Home-Grown Cereals Authority Oilseeds Levy Scheme 1990, both of which are schemes in force under section 16 of the Act.

The Order comes into force on 1st July 2003.

No Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared in respect of this Order.