Specific requirements relating to applications for beef special premiumU.K.
10.—(1) No application made to the appropriate authority for beef special premium shall be approved by that authority unless that application is accompanied by the cattle passports or national administrative documents in respect of the bovine animals to which that application relates.
(2) In respect of any application made to the appropriate authority for beef special premium—
(a)for the purposes of the first indent of Article 4(5) of Council Regulation 1254/1999, the headage limit of 90 bovine animals per holding and per age bracket shall not apply to that application; and
(b)for the purposes of the second indent of that Article, where the regional ceiling has been exceeded, a proportionate reduction in the number of bovine animals entitled to benefit from that premium shall not be applied to that application if it is made by a small producer,
and for the purposes of this paragraph “small producer” means an applicant who has, for the scheme year in question, made an application in respect of no more than 30 bovine animals, which animals shall not include bovine animals—
(i)covered by an application which has subsequently been withdrawn by the applicant; or
(ii)withdrawn from an application as a result of errors notified by the applicant to the appropriate authority pursuant to Article 11(1a) of Commission Regulation 3887/92.
(3) An applicant shall not be entitled to make more than twelve applications for beef special premium during any one calendar year.