The Tir Mynydd (Wales) (Amendment) Regulations 2002

Amendment of the Tir Mynydd (Wales) Regulations 2001

5.  For regulation 3 (Qualifying claimants) there shall be substituted the following regulation—

“Eligible claimants

3.— (1) Claimants shall be eligible for a Tir Mynydd payment in respect of a scheme year provided—

(a) a claim for payment has been made in respect of that scheme year in a valid area aid application and the claimed forage area, if any, complies with one of the conditions specified in paragraph (2); and

(b) the claimant has submitted a claim for livestock aid in relation to sheep or suckler cows or both in respect of the year for which a claim has been submitted for a Tir Mynydd payment; and

(c) he or she has applied usual good farming practices compatible with the need to safeguard the environment and maintain the countryside, in particular by sustainable farming; and

(d) the claimant has given a written undertaking to continue farming for a period of 5 years from the date of the first compensatory payment, at least 3 hectares of land which is either eligible land or related less favoured area, and that claimant is not in breach of that undertaking at the date of payment.

(2) The conditions are—

(a) that no less than 6 hectares of the claimed forage area lies within the less favoured area; or

(b) where the claimed forage area lying within the less favoured area is not less than 1 hectare but less than 6 hectares, the total claimed forage area includes land situated in a related less favoured area which is eligible for a related less favoured area allowance.”.