The Common Agricultural Policy Support Schemes (Modulation) (Amendment) Regulations 2004

Amendment of the Common Agricultural Policy Support Schemes (Modulation) Regulations 2000

2.  The Common Agricultural Policy Support Schemes (Modulation) Regulations 2000(1) shall be amended as follows—

(a) in regulation 2(2), by the deletion of “IACS”;

(b) in regulation 2(2), in the definition of “the relevant amount” in regulation 3(1), and in regulations 3(2)(b) and 4(1), by the substitution for the word “Minister” of the words “Secretary of State”(2); and

(c) in regulation 3(1)—

(i) by the deletion of the definitions of “IACS support scheme”, “LFA supplement” and “the Minister”;

(ii) by the insertion at the end of the definition of “the Council Regulation” of the words “, as last amended by the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded(3)”;

(iii) by the insertion at the end of the definition of “Council Regulation 3508/92” of the words “, as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 495/2001(4)”;

(iv) in the definitions of “farmer” and “holding”, by the substitution for the words “Article 1(4)” of the words “Article 1(3)”;

(v) in the definition of “relevant purposes”, by the substitution for the words “Articles 13 to 24 (inclusive)” of the words “Articles 13 to 20, Articles 22 to 24”;

(vi) by the insertion at the end of the definition of “the Rural Development Regulation” of the words “, as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 583/2004(5)”; and

(vii) by the substitution for the definition of “support scheme” of the following definition—

“ “support scheme” means any support scheme falling within Annex I to the Council Regulation, other than the Sheep and Wildlife Enhancement Scheme established under Article 11(1) and (2), first indent, of Council Regulation (EC) No 2529/2001 of 19 December 2001 on the common organisation of the market in sheepmeat and goatmeat(6), as last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003(7).”.

(1)

S.I. 2000/3127, amended by S.I. 2001/3686.

(2)

The functions of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food, were transferred to the Secretary of State by virtue of Article 2(4) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794).

(3)

O.J. L 236, 30.09.2003, p.33 (see, in particular, Annex II, part 6, paragraph 27). The only amendment to the Council Regulation of relevance to these Regulations was the replacement of the text of the original Annex by the text in the Annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No 41/2004 (O.J. No. L 006, 10.01.2004, p. 19); the amended Annex to the Council Regulation was subsequently renamed “Annex I” in the amendments made by the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the new Member States.

(4)

O.J. No. L 072, 14.3.2001, p. 6. Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3508/92 was repealed by Article 153(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1782/2003 (O.J. No. L 270, 21.10.2003, p.1), but continues to apply to applications for direct payments in respect of the calendar years preceding 2005 by virtue of that Article.

(5)

O.J. No. L 091, 30.03.2004, p.1.

(6)

O.J. No. L 341, 22.12.2001, p.3.

(7)

O.J. No. L 270, 21.10.2003, p.1.