8.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2), if, on 31st March 2005, a claimant had available to him an individual reference quantity of milk, his relevant forage area shall be reduced by 1 hectare per 10,000 litres of that quantity for the purposes of determining his qualifying forage area.
(2) Where any holding in respect of which a claim has been made is a cross-border holding, the individual reference quantity of milk applicable to that part of the claimant’s holding situate in Northern Ireland shall be calculated as follows:
IRQ = TIRQ × X ÷ Y
where:
“X” is the claimed forage area in hectares of that part of the holding which is situate in Northern Ireland;
“Y” is the total claimed forage area in hectares of that holding;
“TIRQ” is the individual reference quantity of milk available to the claimant in respect of that holding; and
“IRQ” is the individual reference quantity of milk which is treated as applicable to that part of the holding situate in Northern Ireland,
and the reduction, for the purposes of this regulation, of the relevant forage area shall be 1 hectare per 10,000 litres of the individual reference quantity of milk applicable to that part of the claimant’s holding situate in Northern Ireland.
(3) Where paragraph (1) or (2) applies, the reduction in the relevant forage area shall first be applied to land which is not eligible land, followed by disadvantaged land, and lastly, severely disadvantaged land.