The Common Agricultural Policy (Wine) Regulations 1996

Specified regions

15.—(1) Subject to paragraph (2) below, the specified regions in the United Kingdom for the purposes of Article 3 of Regulation 823/87 are—

(a) English Vineyards, comprising the areas of the counties described in Part I of Schedule 4, and

(b) Welsh Vineyards, comprising the areas of the counties or, as the case may be, county boroughs, subject to any alteration of boundaries under Part IV of the Local Government Act 1972(1), described in Part II of Schedule 4.

(2) There shall be excluded from the areas described in Part I and Part II of Schedule 4 any land situated at an altitude of more than 220 metres above sea level.

(1)

1972 c. 70; in Part IV, as it relates to Wales (ss.53 to 62, 64 to 76, and 78), section 64 is substituted by s.6 of the Local Government (Wales) Act 1994 (c. 19) and minor and consequential amendments are made to ss.54 to 61, 67, 69, 71 to 74, 76 and 78 by s.66(5) of, and paragraphs 7 to 22 of Schedule 15 to, the 1994 Act.