Farm Woodland Premium Scheme 1997 and Farm Woodland Premium Scheme 19922.

(1)

The Farm Woodland Premium Scheme 19973 and the Farm Woodland Premium Scheme 19924 shall be amended in accordance with this Scheme.

(2)

In paragraph 2(1) of both Schemes, in the Farm Woodland Premium Scheme 1997 after the definition of “Council Regulation 3508/92”, and in the Farm Woodland Premium Scheme 1992 after the definition of “converted land”, there shall be inserted—
““Council Regulation 1782/2003” means Council Regulation (EC) No. 1782/20035 of 29 September 2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers and amending Regulations (EEC) No. 2019/93, (EC) No. 1452/2001, (EC) No. 1453/2001, (EC) No. 1454/2001, (EC) No. 1868/94, (EC) No. 1251/1999, (EC) No. 1254/1999, (EC) No. 1673/2000, (EEC) No. 2358/71 and (EC) No. 2529/2001, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 118/20056 modifying Annex VIII to Council Regulation (EC) No. 1782/2003 and establishing budgetary ceilings for partial or optional implementation of the Single Payment Scheme and annual financial envelopes for the Single Area Payment Scheme provided for in that Regulation;”.

(3)

In the definition of “Council Regulation 3508/92”, in paragraph 2(1) of the Farm Woodland Premium Scheme 1997, after “Council Regulation No. 2466/96” there shall be added “, and as it applied on 5th October 20037”.

(4)

In the Farm Woodland Premium Scheme 1997, after paragraph 7A there shall be inserted the following paragraph—

“Final date for receipt of applications7B.

The appropriate Minister in respect of England shall not approve an application to enter this Scheme under paragraph 3(1) unless the application is received by or on behalf of the appropriate Minister before the coming into force of the Farm Woodland Premium Schemes (Amendment) (England) Scheme 2005.”.

(5)

For the text in sub-paragraph (3) of paragraph 9 of the Farm Woodland Premium Scheme 1997, and for the text in sub-paragraph (2A) of paragraph 9 of the Farm Woodland Premium Scheme 1992, there shall be substituted—

  • “Where an applicant, in his Single Payment Scheme application submitted in a particular year, counts an area of converted land as set aside for the purposes of the set-aside requirement, any payment due under this Scheme in October of that year, or on such other date or dates in that year where the appropriate Minister has so decided under paragraph 10(3)(b), in relation to that converted land, shall be reduced by the amount of the set-aside payment due in relation to that area of land under that Single Payment Scheme application.”.

(6)

For the text in sub-paragraph (4) of paragraph 9 of the Farm Woodland Premium Scheme 1997 and for the text in sub-paragraph (2B) of paragraph 9 of the Farm Woodland Premium Scheme 1992, there shall be substituted—

“For the purposes of this paragraph—

(a)

“Single Payment Scheme application” means the application for payment under the single payment scheme as provided for in Title III of Council Regulation 1782/2003,

(b)

“set-aside payment” means, in relation to an area of land which is converted land, the payment provided for in Article 54(1) of Council Regulation 1782/2003; and

(c)

“set-aside requirement” means the requirement to set aside land from production in Article 54(3) of Council Regulation 1782/2003.”.