The Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2005

Amendment of the Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) (England) Regulations 2004

2.  The Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) (England) Regulations 2004(1) shall be amended as follows—

(a) in regulation 2(2), for “on the date these Regulations are made.” substitute “on the date the Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) (England) (Amendment) Regulations 2005 are made.”(2);

(b) in regulation 3, for “in Article 3(2)” substitute “for the purposes of Article 3(2)”;

(c) in regulation 4(1), for “in Article 5(1) of the Council Regulation are set out in the Schedule.” substitute “set out in the Schedule apply as minimum requirements for the purposes of Article 5(1) of the Council Regulation.”;

(d) in regulation 6(4)—

(i) for “paragraphs 2 and 4” substitute “paragraphs (2) and (3)”; and

(ii) for “paragraphs 19, 20” substitute “paragraphs 19 and 20”;

(e) in sub-paragraph (iv) of paragraph 3(1)(c) of the Schedule—

(i) after “vegetables” insert “(excluding all varieties of potato, sugar beet, mangel, swede, turnip and fodder beet)”; and

(ii) for “if it was not harvested; or” at the end of sub-paragraph (bb) substitute “if it was not harvested.”;

(f) in paragraph 13(5)(b) of the Schedule, for “not of less than” substitute “not exceeding”; and

(g) in paragraph 16(1) of the Schedule, for “or” at the end of sub-paragraph (a) substitute “and”.

(1)

S.I. 2004/3196.

(2)

Since the Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Cross Compliance) (England) Regulations 2004 were made, Commission Regulation (EC) No 796/2004 has been amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 239/2005 (O.J. No. L42, 12.02.2005, p.3), and Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 has been amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 118/2005 (O.J. No. L24, 27.01.2005, p.15).