The Dairy Produce Quotas (Scotland) Regulations 2005

Annual declarations and summaries

35.—(1) If–

(a) a producer in whose name any direct sales quota is registered pursuant to regulation 4 fails to submit to the Scottish Ministers any declaration which that producer is required to submit by Article 11(2) of the Commission Regulation so that the declaration reaches the Scottish Ministers on or before 14th May in any year; or

(b) a purchaser fails to submit any summary which that purchaser is required to submit to the Scottish Ministers by Article 8(2) of the Commission Regulation so that the summary reaches them on or before 14th May in any year,

the Scottish Ministers may recover a reasonable charge from that producer or that purchaser, as the case may be, in respect of any visit to any premises which they reasonably consider an authorised officer should make in order to obtain the declaration or summary in question.

(2) If the Scottish Ministers send to a purchaser a revised version of a summary submitted by that purchaser in accordance with Article 8(2) of the Commission Regulation, the purchaser shall submit either–

(a) confirmation that the revised version is agreed; or

(b) amendments to the revised version,

so that such confirmation or amendments, as the case may be, reach the Scottish Ministers before the expiry of the period of ten working days beginning with the date on which the revised version was sent to the purchaser.

(3) In this regulation, “authorised officer” means a person (whether or not an officer of the Scottish Ministers) who is authorised by the Scottish Ministers, either generally or specifically, to act in matters arising under these Regulations and the Community legislation.