Amendment of the Tir Mynydd (Wales) Regulations 2001
6. After regulation 3, the following regulation shall be inserted—
“Reduction of relevant land
3A.—(1) In relation to any claimant who has available an individual reference quantity of milk, a reduction calculated in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (2) shall be applied to that claimant’s relevant land.
(2) The reduction referred to in paragraph (1) shall be calculated in accordance with sub-paragraphs (i) to (iii)—
(i)firstly, the number of livestock units in the notional dairy herd is calculated by dividing the individual reference quantity of milk available to the claimant by 5730, being the number of litres of milk deemed to be equivalent to the annual production of one dairy cow;
(ii)for each hectare of the claimant’s holding that is not within a less favoured area, the number of livestock units calculated in accordance with sub-paragraph (i) shall be reduced by 2 units;
(iii)the livestock units remaining following the application of sub-paragraph (ii) shall be used to calculate the reduction in relevant land by reducing the area of such land by 1 hectare for every 2 livestock units so remaining, such reduction to be applied fully to disadvantaged land before being applied to severely disadvantaged land.
(3) In this regulation “notional dairy herd” means the total number of animals deemed to constitute the dairy herd on land farmed by the claimant in Wales as calculated above and “individual reference quantity of milk” has the same meaning as in Article 31 of Commission Regulation (EC) 2342 /1999(1).”.
O.J. No. L281, 04.11.99, p.30.