The Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment Scheme (Set-aside) (Wales) Regulations 2005

Provisions relating to raw materials produced for non-food purposes

6.—(1) The National Assembly is designated as the competent authority for the purposes of Chapter 16 of Commission Regulation 1973/2004 (use of land set aside for the production of raw materials for non-food purposes).

(2) Raw materials to which Article 146(2)(b) of Commission Regulation 1973/2004 applies must be weighed by an operator of public weighing equipment holding a certificate issued under section 18 of the Weights and Measures Act 1985(1).

(3) For the purposes of Article 146(4) of Commission Regulation 1973/2004, cereals and oilseeds to which that paragraph applies must be denatured by dyeing them with a brightly coloured dye.

(4) For the purposes of Article 157(1) of Commission Regulation 1973/2004, the last day on which a contract to which that paragraph applies may be deposited with the National Assembly is 15 May of the year in which the relevant claim for the associated set-aside entitlement is made.

(5) For the purposes of Article 157(3) of Commission Regulation 1973/2004, the last day on which a collector or first processor to whom that paragraph applies may provide the National Assembly with the information specified in that paragraph is 31 January of the year following the year in which the relevant claim for the associated set-aside entitlement is made.

(6) In this regulation —

“the associated set-aside entitlement” means the set-aside entitlement which is being claimed on the land which has been set aside to produce the raw materials to which the contract referred to in paragraph (4), and the information referred to in paragraph (5), relates; and

“first processor” has the meaning given by Article 144(c) of Commission Regulation 1973/2004.

(1)

1985 c. 72.