The Common Agricultural Policy (Direct Payments etc.) (Scotland) Regulations 2015

[F1PART 1SVoluntary coupled support – bovine animals

Textual Amendments

InterpretationS

1.  In this Part—

“applicant” means a farmer whose holding is wholly or partly situated in Scotland and who, at the time of submitting an application, is producing beef or veal in any part of the holding situated in Scotland;

“application” means an application for a Scheme payment under paragraph 2;

“bovine animal” means an animal of the bovine species;

“Cattle Identification Regulations” means the Cattle Identification (Scotland) Regulations 2007;

“cattle passport” has the same meaning as in the Cattle Identification Regulations;

“eartag identification code” means the unique identification code for the purposes of Article 4(1) of Regulation 1760/2000 and regulation 5 of and Schedule 1 (ear tags) to the Cattle Identification Regulations;

“eligible bovine animal” has the meaning given in paragraph 3;

“holding”, for the purposes of paragraph 3, means a holding defined in Article 2 of Regulation 1760/2000;

“identification document” has the same meaning as in regulation 2(1) of the Cattle Identification Regulations;

“Regulation 1760/2000” means Regulation (EC) No 1760/2000 of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing a system for the identification and registration of bovine animals and regarding the labelling of beef and beef products and repealing Regulation (EC) No 820/97;

“Scheme payment” means a payment by way of coupled support under and in accordance with Chapter 1 of Title IV (voluntary coupled support) of the Direct Payments Regulation; and

“Scheme year” means the calendar year in which a particular application for a Scheme payment is made under paragraph 2.

Application for a Scheme paymentS

2.—(1) An applicant may, during a calendar year, submit an application to the Scottish Ministers in respect of any eligible bovine animal.

(2) A Scheme payment for a particular Scheme year is to be made in respect of an application made during that Scheme year.

(3) An application is to be made in such form and include such information as may be specified by the Scottish Ministers.

(4) In accordance with Article 3 of the Horizontal Implementing Regulation, an application may be withdrawn in writing in respect of any bovine animal included in that application.

(5) In respect of any bovine animal for which an application is made, that application must include—

(a)the eartag identification code;

(b)details concerning the identification document which has been issued in respect of that animal; and

(c)such other information as the Scottish Ministers may require.

(6) For the purposes of this paragraph, an applicant must have submitted a single application in accordance with these Regulations in the Scheme year.

Eligible bovine animalS

3.  For the purposes of Article 53 of the Direct Payments Delegated Regulation and this Schedule, an eligible bovine animal means a bovine animal—

(a)which genetically is at least 75 per cent of a breed of bovine animal other than a breed listed in Schedule 4;

(b)which was born on the applicant’s holding on or after 2nd December 2014 and kept on that holding from birth for a continuous period of at least 30 days; F2...

[F3(c)which is reared for the production of beef as part of a suckler beef herd; and

(d)in respect of which the following requirements of the Cattle Identification Regulations have been complied with—

(i)regulation 5 and schedule 1 (ear tags);

(ii)regulation 6 and paragraph 2 of schedule 2 (notification of movement);

(iii)regulation 7 and schedule 3 (cattle passports etc.); and

(iv)regulation 8 and schedule 4 (records).]

Textual Amendments

Scheme paymentsS

4.  A Scheme payment to be made in respect of an eligible bovine animal must be determined by the Scottish Ministers in accordance with—

(a)Article 52(3) of the Direct Payments Regulation;

(b)Article 52(6) of the Direct Payments Regulation; and

(c)Article 53(2) of the Direct Payments Delegated Regulation.]