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Title and commencement

1.  These Regulations may be cited as the Fisheries and Aquaculture Structures (Grants) (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1998 and shall come into operation on 1st September 1998.

Amendment

2.  The Fisheries and Aquaculture Structures (Grants) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 1995(1) (“the principal Regulations”) shall be amended in accordance with regulation 3.

3.  In regulation 2(1) of the principal Regulations—

(a)for the definition of “the Council Regulation” there shall be substituted the following definition—

“the Council Regulation” means Council Regulation (EC) No. 3699/93 laying down the criteria and arrangements regarding Community structural financial assistance in the fisheries and aquaculture sector and the processing and marketing of its products(2) as amended by Council Regulation (EC) No. 1694/95(3), Council Regulation (EC) No. 2719/95(4), Council Regulation (EC) No. 965/96(5) and Council Regulation (EC) No. 25/97(6); and

(b)there shall be added at the end of paragraph (a)(v) in the definition of “relevant operation”, the following—

and promotion of operations by the fishery or aquaculture trade (Article 13 of the Council Regulation).

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture for Northern Ireland on

L.S.

G. Lavery

Assistant Secretary

2nd July 1998.