The Home-Grown Cereals Authority (Rate of Levy) Order 1998

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Order)

For the purposes of financing the Home-Grown Cereals Authority’s non-trading functions under Part I of the Cereals Marketing Act 1965 for the year beginning 1st July 1998, this Order specifies the rates of dealer levy, grower levy and processor levies which appear to the Ministers to be sufficient to meet the amount apportioned to certain cereals grown in the United Kingdom namely, wheat (including durum wheat), barley, oats, rye, maize, triticale, or any two or more of such cereals grown as one crop and the rate of levy which appears to them to be sufficient to meet the amount apportioned to certain oilseeds grown in the United Kingdom, namely rapeseed, linseed, soyabean, sunflowerseed, or any two or more of such oilseeds grown as one crop.

In the case of each of these kinds of cereals, the rate of dealer levy is 48.5275 pence per tonne, the rate of grower levy is 44.65 pence per tonne, the standard rate of processor levy is 9.165 pence per tonne and the reduced rate of processor levy is 4.465 pence per tonne and in the case of each of these kinds of oilseeds the rate of levy is 76.375 pence per tonne.

Levy will be imposed in accordance with provisions of the Home-Grown Cereals Authority Cereals Levy Scheme 1987 (as varied) and the Home-Grown Cereals Authority Oilseeds Levy Scheme 1990, Schemes in force under section 16 of the Act.

The Order comes into force on 1st July 1998.

A regulatory appraisal has been prepared and placed in the library of each House of Parliament. Copies can be obtained from Cereals and Set-aside Division, Room 602, Whitehall Place (East Block), London SW1A 2HH.