The Dairy Produce Quotas (Amendment) Regulations 1997

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations amend the Dairy Produce Quotas Regulations 1994 (“the principal Regulations”).

Regulation 2(2) of these Regulations amends regulation 13 of the principal Regulations by adding a further category of exceptional circumstance to the list of exceptional circumstances provided in regulation 13(8). This amendment permits producers who have had cows forming part of their dairy herd slaughtered as animals exposed to the infection of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, pursuant to the powers conferred by section 32(1)(b) of the Animal Health Act 1981, to be released from the non-transfer undertaking referred to in regulation 13(2)(d)(i) of the principal Regulations.

Regulation 2(3) of these Regulations amends regulation 18 of the principal Regulations by removing the transfer restriction contained in paragraph (4) of regulation 18 in respect of producers who have had cows forming part of their dairy herd slaughtered as animals which have been exposed to bovine spongiform encephalopathy, pursuant to the powers conferred by section 32(1)(b) of the Animal Health Act 1981.

The principal Regulations, as now amended, continue to implement Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3950/92 (OJ No. L405, 31.12.92, p.1) and Commission Regulation (EEC) No. 536/93 (OJ No. L57, 20.3.93, p.12) as amended.