The Dairy Produce Quotas (Wales) Regulations 2005

Conversion of quota: general

21.—(1) For the purposes of —

(a) the provisions of Article 6(2) and (5) of the Council Regulation (which concern changes from direct sales to delivery and vice versa); and

(b) Article 11(2) of the Council Regulation (which concerns replacements of purchasers and changes of purchasers by producers),

a producer may apply to convert direct sales quota to wholesale quota or wholesale quota to direct sales quota either temporarily or permanently.

(2) If a producer wishes to convert quota in any quota year, he or she must submit to the National Assembly an application in such form as the National Assembly may reasonably require —

(a) stating —

(i) the amount (if any) of that producer’s direct sales quota, wholesale quota, direct sales and deliveries for the quota year in which the application is made,

(ii) the amount of unused quota which he or she holds at the time of the application, and

(iii) the amount which he or she wishes the National Assembly to convert; and

(b) including such other information as the National Assembly may reasonably require in order to assess whether the requirements of Article 6(2) and (5) of the Council Regulation and Article 7 of the Commission Regulation (which concerns representative fat content) are met.

(3) The application must reach the National Assembly —

(a) in the case of a permanent conversion of quota, not later than 31 December in the quota year in which the conversion is intended to take effect; and

(b) in the case of a temporary conversion of quota, not later than 14 May in the year following the end of the quota year in which that temporary conversion is intended to take effect.