The Common Agricultural Policy (Direct Payments etc.) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015

Amendment to the Common Agricultural Policy (Direct Payments etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2015 – amendments coming into force on 1st June 2015

2.  Regulation 6 (applications and date on which land must be at farmer’s disposal) of the Common Agricultural Policy (Direct Payments etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2015(1) is amended as follows—

(a) in paragraph (1), for “For” substitute “Subject to paragraph (1A), for”; and

(b) after paragraph (1) insert—

“(1A) For the purposes of Article 13(1) of the Horizontal Implementing Regulation and Article 1 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/747 derogating from Implementing Regulation (EU) No 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 2015(2), the final date on which a single application, aid application or payment claim may be submitted to the Scottish Ministers in respect of calendar year 2015, is 15th June 2015.”.

(1)

S.S.I. 2015/58, as amended by S.S.I. 2015/194.

(2)

OJ L 119, 12.5.2015, p.21.