The Marketing Development Scheme 1994

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

1.  This Scheme enables the appropriate Minister to pay to any person satisfying the conditions set out in paragraph 3 thereof a grant representing 50 per cent of the expenditure (other than value added tax) which has been incurred by that person in carrying out a proposal for the organisation, promotion, encouragement, development, co-ordination or facilitation of the marketing in Great Britain or elsewhere of—

(a) the produce of agriculture (including horticulture);

(b) the produce of an activity specified for the purposes of section 50(2) of the Agriculture Act 1993 (1993 c. 37) by order made by the Ministers; or

(c) anything derived from produce falling within sub-paragraph (a) or (b) above,

insofar as the expenditure relates to any of the items specified in Schedule 1 to the Scheme. The phrases “the appropriate Minister” and “the Ministers” and the word “agriculture” are defined in section 50(9) of the Agriculture Act 1993.

2.  Paragraph 4 of the Scheme imposes conditions relating to applications for grants under it; paragraph 5 of the Scheme sets out the maximum amount of money that may be paid in respect of a grant made under it; paragraph 6 of the Scheme imposes conditions relating to the payment of grants under it; paragraph 7 of the Scheme imposes conditions on certain grant recipients regarding the making of annual submissions to the appropriate Ministers about the proposal being funded under it; paragraph 8 of the Scheme imposes conditions on grant recipients regarding the making of submissions to the appropriate Minister after funding of the proposal to which the grant relates has ceased; paragraph 9 of the Scheme imposes conditions on grant recipients regarding the keeping and disclosure of records relating to the proposal being funded under it; paragraph 10 of the Scheme specifies that the carrying out of any proposal funded under it may not be commenced without the written consent of the appropriate Minister; paragraph 11 of the Scheme enables the appropriate Minister (provided the condition specified therein is satisfied) to permit a proposal being funded under it to be varied or withdrawn by the grant recipient and to recover grant monies already paid in respect of a proposal which is withdrawn as aforesaid; and paragraph 12 of the Scheme enables the appropriate Minister to impose financial limits on it by indicating that (for a specified period) further grant applications will not be accepted.