The Dairy Produce Quotas Regulations 1994

Registers to be prepared and maintained by the Intervention Board

25.—(1) The Intervention Board shall—

(a) prepare a direct sales register entry in respect of each direct seller setting out in particular—

(i) his name;

(ii) his address;

(iii) a reference number which serves to identify the direct seller;

(iv) the direct sales quota available to him for the quota year excluding the quota referred to in subparagraph (iv); and

(v) quota issued as special quota,

and shall send each direct seller a copy of the entry relating to him; and

(b) maintain—

(i) a direct sales register (being a register of entries referred to in paragraph (1)(a)), and

(ii) a register of particulars of direct sales by each direct seller.

(2) The Intervention Board shall—

(a) prepare a wholesale register entry in respect of each producer setting out in particular—

(i) his name;

(ii) his address;

(iii) a reference number which serves to identify the producer;

(iv) the wholesale quota available to him for the quota year excluding the quota referred to in subparagraph (v);

(v) quota issued as special quota;

(vi) a list:

• of the names and addresses of each purchaser whose purchaser quota will be calculated to take into account all or part of that producer’s total wholesale quota, and

• of the wholesale quota registered with each purchaser, showing the butterfat base of that quota calculated in accordance with Article 2 of the Commission Regulation,

and shall send to each producer a copy of the entry relating to him and to each purchaser named on the list referred to in subparagraph (vi) a copy of that part of the entry relating to his purchaser quota; and

(b) maintain a wholesale register (being a register of entries referred to in paragraph (2)(a)).

(3) In respect of each purchaser the Intervention Board shall:

(a) prepare a purchaser notice setting out:

(i) his name,

(ii) his purchaser quota,

(iii) his purchaser special quota.

and shall send each purchaser a copy of the notice relating to him; and

(b) maintain a register of purchaser notices.

(4) For the purposes of paragraphs (1) and (2) above, where a holding comprises more than one dairy enterprise, a direct seller or a producer may, on presenting to the Intervention Board a consent or sole interest notice in respect of that holding, agree with the Intervention Board the partition of that holding between separate direct sales register entries or wholesale register entries as specified in the agreement.

(5) The Intervention Board shall amend the registers which it is required by this regulation to maintain to record any allocations or adjustments made under or by virtue of these Regulations, or to make any correction which it reasonably considers to be necessary, and where it makes an amendment or correction shall notify any person affected by that amendment or correction.

(6) In this regulation “direct seller” and “producer” include a person who occupies land with quota whether or not that person is engaged in the sale or delivery of dairy produce.