The Financing, Management and Monitoring of Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations 2020

Amendments to the Common Agricultural Policy (Control and Enforcement, Cross-Compliance, Scrutiny of Transactions and Appeals) Regulations 2014

16.—(1) The Common Agricultural Policy (Control and Enforcement, Cross-Compliance, Scrutiny of Transactions and Appeals) Regulations 2014(1) are amended as follows.

(2) In regulation 2—

(a) in paragraph (1), for the definition of “direct payments” substitute—

““direct payments” means payments granted under the Direct Payments Regulation;”

(b) After paragraph (1A), insert—

“(1B) In these Regulations, references to the Horizontal Delegated Regulation, the Horizontal Implementing Regulation and the Horizontal Regulation are, to the extent that they relate to the direct payments for claim year 2020, references to those Regulations incorporated into domestic law and amended under the Direct Payments to Farmers (Legislative Continuity) Act 2020(2).”.

(3) In regulation 10(7)(a), after “Commission” insert “, except for matters relating to direct payments for claim year 2020,”

(4) In regulation 30—

(a) in the definition of “Pillar 1 decision”—

(i) after “the EAGF” insert “and direct payments”;

(ii) omit “European”.

(5) In Regulation 36(2), after “review,” insert “except for matters relating to the direct payments scheme for claim year 2020,”.

(1)

S.I. 2014/3263, and prospectively amended by S.I. 2019/733; there are other amending instruments but none is relevant.

(2)

2020 c.2