The Agriculture (Delinked Payments and Consequential Provisions) (England) Regulations 2023

Amendment of the Common Agricultural Policy (Control and Enforcement, Cross-Compliance, Scrutiny of Transactions and Appeals) Regulations 2014

8.—(1) The Common Agricultural Policy (Control and Enforcement, Cross-Compliance, Scrutiny of Transactions and Appeals) Regulations 2014(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 1 (citation, commencement, application and extent)—

(a) in paragraph (2), for “paragraphs (3) and (4)” substitute “paragraphs (2A), (3) and (4)”;

(b) after paragraph (2) insert—

“(2A) These Regulations do not apply to direct payments in England in respect of any year falling after the end of 2023.”.

(3) In regulation 2(1) (interpretation)—

(a) in the definition of “the Direct Payments Delegated Regulation”, at the end insert “as that Regulation applied in relation to England immediately before the end of 2023”;

(b) in the definition of “the Direct Payments Implementing Regulation”, at the end insert “as that Regulation applied in relation to England immediately before the end of 2023”;

(c) in the definition of “the Direct Payments Regulation”, at the end insert “as that Regulation applied in relation to England immediately before the end of 2023”;

(d) omit the definition of “area-related aid schemes”;

(e) omit the definition of “single application”.

(4) Omit regulation 3 (competent authority).

(5) In regulation 4(3) (agency arrangements), omit “support schemes listed in Annex 1 to the Direct Payments Regulation or”.

(6) In regulation 5(1) (applications), for “a single application,” substitute “an”.

(7) Omit regulation 6 (minimum size of agricultural area).

(1)

S.I. 2014/3263; regulations 1 to 6 were amended by S.I. 2015/1325 and 1997, 2018/591, 2019/733 and 785 and 2020/90, 477 and 1387. There are other amendments none of which are relevant to these Regulations.