12.—(1) For the purposes of Article 43(2) of Commission Regulation 1973/2004, the minimum cultivated area for any raw material referred to in Article 24 of that Regulation is 0.1 hectares.
(2) Where the National Assembly excludes any agricultural raw material from aid for energy crops in accordance with Article 43(1) of Commission Regulation 1973/2004, the National Assembly must notify the farmers concerned stating, with reasons, the details and duration of the exclusion.
(3) Raw materials to which Article 25(2)(b) of Commission Regulation 1973/2004 applies must be weighed by an operator of public weighing equipment holding a certificate issued under section 18 of the Weights and Measures Act 1985(1).
(4) For the purposes of Article 25(4) of Commission Regulation 1973/2004, cereals, oilseeds, and oil produced by processing oilseeds, to which that paragraph applies, must be denatured by dying them with a brightly coloured dye.
(5) For the purposes of Article 34(1) of Commission Regulation 1973/2004, the last day on which a contract to which that paragraph applies may be deposited with the National Assembly is the last day for submission of the relevant single application.
(6) For the purposes of Article 34(3) of Commission Regulation 1973/2004, the last day on which a first processor to whom that paragraph applies may provide the National Assembly with the information specified in that paragraph is the 9 February of the year following the year in which the relevant single application is made.
(7) In this regulation —
(a)“relevant single application” means the single application in which aid for energy crops is being claimed on the areas used for the growing of agricultural raw materials to which the contract referred to in paragraph (5), or the information referred to in paragraph (6), relates (as the case may be); and
(b)“first processor” has the meaning given to it in Article 23 of Commission Regulation 1973/2004.