The Common Agricultural Policy (Integrated Administration and Control System and Enforcement and Cross Compliance) (Wales) Regulations 2014

PART 3 CROSS COMPLIANCE

Standards for good agricultural and environmental condition

13.—(1) The standards for good agricultural and environmental condition set out in Schedule 1 apply as minimum requirements for the purposes of Article 94 of, and Annex II to, the Horizontal Regulation.

(2) But the provisions of Schedule 2 set out the circumstances in which a breach of a provision of Schedule 1 does not constitute a non-compliance.

Competent control authorities

14.—(1) The Welsh Ministers are the competent control authority for the purposes of Article 67 of the Horizontal Implementing Regulation except as otherwise specified in this regulation.

(2) For the purposes of Article 67(1)(a) of the Horizontal Implementing Regulation, the Secretary of State is the specialised control body who bears the responsibility of carrying out the controls in respect of statutory management requirements under numbers 5 and 11 to 13 of Annex II to the Horizontal Regulation.

(3) The Welsh Ministers and the Secretary of State may, in respect of the standards for which they are responsible, require a relevant authority to carry out controls or checks for the purposes of Article 65, Chapter I of Title III and Chapter II of Title IV of the Horizontal Implementing Regulation.

(4) A relevant authority, if required by the Welsh Ministers or the Secretary of State to carry out the controls referred to in paragraph (3), must—

(a) send a provisional control report, in relation to the controls carried out, to the Welsh Ministers or Secretary of State (as the case may be);

(b) where, in the course of its other activities, it considers that there has been a non-compliance, notify the person or body responsible under paragraph (1) or (2) of this regulation for carrying out the controls in relation to that non-compliance.

(5) In this regulation, “a relevant authority” (“awdurdod perthnasol”) means—

(a) Natural Resources Wales;

(b) Animal and Plant Health Authority; or

(c) Veterinary Medicines Directorate.

(6) The Welsh Ministers enforce this Part of the Regulations, and the Welsh Ministers may authorise in writing persons to enforce this Part of these Regulations.