The Common Agricultural Policy Single Farm Payment and Support Schemes (Scotland) Regulations 2005

Applications for Scheme payments

20.—(1) An applicant is entitled to submit applications in respect of any number of animals claimed to be eligible under regulation 21 during a calendar year to the Scottish Ministers for a Scheme payment.

(2) For the purpose of Article 69(2) of Council Regulation 1782/2003, the Scheme payment for a particular Scheme year shall be made in respect of the applications for Scheme payment received in that calendar year, and an application received after 31st December will count as an application for the following Scheme year.

(3) An application must include the eartag number of any animal in respect of which the application is made in the form of–

(a) a movement card from the animal’s cattle passport;

(b) a signed and dated printout from farm software showing the eartag numbers in a barcode which is the same as that on the movement card from the animal’s cattle passport; or

(c) a signed and dated written list of the eartag numbers of each animal.

(4) The application must be in writing in such a form and containing such particulars as may be specified by the Scottish Ministers.

(5) An application for a Scheme payment can be withdrawn in writing in respect of any animal included in that application unless the applicant or keeper has been notified by the Scottish Ministers of an inspection under the Cross Compliance Regulations, the Cattle Tracing Regulations or this Part of, or Schedule 4 to, these Regulations or of any errors in the application.

(6) For the purposes of Article 11(1) of Commission Regulation 796/2004, applicants must have submitted a single application in accordance with the IACS Regulations in the year of the application for the Scheme payment.