The Sheep Annual Premium and Suckler Cow Premium Quotas Regulations 2003

Transfer or lease of quota: notification

4.—(1) The notification of a transfer or lease of quota as required by Article 12(2) of Commission Regulation 2550/01 or as the case may be Article 24(2) of Commission Regulation 2342/99 shall be made to the Minister with responsibility for the part of the United Kingdom in which the transferor’s holding is located in that scheme year or as the case may be calendar year, in such form as the Minister may determine.

(2) The deadline for notifying a transfer or lease of sheep annual premium quota in respect of a scheme year shall be, in relation to any holding located in Northern Ireland, on 2nd January in that year and, in relation to any other holding, on 4th February in that year.

(3) The deadline for notifying a transfer or lease of suckler cow premium quota in respect of a given calendar year shall be—

(a) if the producer receiving the quota under the transfer or lease submits a suckler cow premium application for that year by the end of the period specified in regulation 4(2) of the Suckler Cow Premium Regulations for submitting such an application, the date of lodgement of that application; or

(b) if no such application is submitted by that date by that producer, the end of the period so specified.

(4) Notification of a transfer or lease of suckler cow premium quota in respect of a given calendar year may be made from such date prior to the deadline for that notification, as specified in paragraph (3), as the Minister may reasonably determine.

(5) Notification of a transfer or lease of sheep annual premium quota in respect of a given scheme year may be made from such date prior to the deadline for that notification, as specified in paragraph (2) as the Minister may reasonably determine.

(6) Nothing in this regulation shall prevent quota from being transferred through an inheritance at any time, but—

(a) in the case of suckler cow premium quota, the beneficiary may not (except where, in relation to a particular calendar year, the transfer takes place by the deadline specified in paragraph (3)) use the quota concerned to claim suckler cow premium until the quota has been transferred to him; and

(b) in the case of sheep annual premium quota, the beneficiary may not (except where, in relation to a particular calendar year, the transfer takes place by the deadline specified in paragraph (2)) use the quota concerned to claim sheep annual premium until the quota has been transferred to him.