The Common Agricultural Policy (Control and Enforcement, Cross-Compliance, Scrutiny of Transactions and Appeals) (Amendment) (England) Regulations 2018

Amendment of the Common Agricultural Policy (Control and Enforcement, Cross-Compliance, Scrutiny of Transactions and Appeals) Regulations 2014

2.—(1) Regulation 5 of the Common Agricultural Policy (Control and Enforcement, Cross-Compliance, Scrutiny of Transactions and Appeals) Regulations 2014(1) (applications) is amended as follows.

(2) For paragraph (1) substitute—

“(1) For the purposes of Article 13(1) of the Horizontal Implementing Regulation, Article 1 of Commission Implementing Regulation 2018/701(2) and Article 12 of the Horizontal Delegated Regulation, the final date on which a single application, aid application or payment claim may be submitted to the Secretary of State is—

(a) if the relevant claim year is 2018 and the document being submitted is a payment claim relating to a commitment which takes effect from 1st January 2016, 1st January 2017 or 1st January 2018, 15th June;

(b) in all other cases, 15th May but if that date is a Saturday, Sunday, Bank Holiday or other public holiday, the next working day.”.

(3) In paragraph (2), at the end, add—

““Commission Implementing Regulation 2018/701” means Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/701 derogating from Implementing Regulation (EU) 809/2014 as regards the final date of submission of the single application, aid applications or payment claims, the final date for notification of amendments to the single application or payment claim and the final date for applications for allocation of payment entitlements or the increase of the value of payment entitlements under the basic payment scheme for the year 2018.”.

(1)

S.I. 2014/3263, amended by S.I. 2015/1325 and S.I. 2017/655.

(2)

OJ No. L118, 14.5.2018, p.5.