The Dairy Produce Quotas (Wales) Regulations 2005

Registers and notices to be maintained and prepared by the National Assembly

4.—(1) The National Assembly must —

(a) maintain a direct sales register; and

(b) send to each direct seller a copy of the entry in the direct sales register relating to him or her.

(2) The direct sales register must contain an entry in respect of each direct seller setting out in particular —

(a) his or her name;

(b) his or her trading address;

(c) a reference number which serves to identify him or her;

(d) the direct sales quota available to him or her for the quota year; and

(e) the details of his or her direct sales.

(3) The National Assembly must—

(a) maintain a wholesale register;

(b) send to each wholesale producer a copy of the entry in the wholesale register relating to him or her; and

(c) send to each purchaser named in the list referred to in paragraph (4)(e) a copy of that part of the entry relating to his or her purchaser quota.

(4) The wholesale register must contain an entry in respect of each wholesale producer setting out in particular —

(a) his or her name;

(b) his or her trading address;

(c) a reference number which serves to identify him or her;

(d) the wholesale quota available to him or her for the quota year; and

(e) a list of the name and address of each purchaser whose purchaser quota will be calculated to take into account all or part of that wholesale producer’s total wholesale quota, and of the wholesale quota registered with each purchaser, showing the representative fat content base of that quota calculated in accordance with Article 7 of the Commission Regulation.

(5) The National Assembly must —

(a) maintain a register of purchasers; and

(b) send to each purchaser a copy of the purchaser entry relating to him or her.

(6) The register of purchasers must contain an entry in respect of each purchaser setting out in particular —

(a) his or her name; and

(b) his or her purchaser quota.

(7) For the purposes of paragraphs (1) to (4), where the holding of a quota holder comprises more than one dairy enterprise, that quota holder may, after submitting to the National Assembly a consent or sole interest notice in respect of that holding, agree with the National Assembly the partition of the quota available to that quota holder relating to that holding between separate direct sales register entries or separate wholesale register entries, as the case may be.

(8) The National Assembly —

(a) may make such enquiries as it reasonably considers necessary for the purposes of ensuring the accuracy of the registers which it is required to maintain under this regulation;

(b) must amend the registers —

(i) to record any allocation or adjustments made under or by virtue of these Regulations, or

(ii) to make any correction or amendment which it reasonably considers to be necessary; and

(c) must notify any person affected by any correction or amendment made by it.

(9) Notwithstanding that a person is no longer a producer, he or she must—

(a) remain registered pursuant to this regulation; and

(b) for the purposes of this regulation and regulations, 6, 7(a) and 33(1), continue to be regarded as a producer,

until the start of the quota year following the year in which the quota available to him or her has been transferred or until the quota has been withdrawn under Article 15 of the Council Regulation.

(10) The obligation under paragraphs (1)(b), (3)(b) and (c) and (5)(b) is an obligation to send a copy of —

(a) an entry; or

(b) part of an entry,

as the case may be, as it has effect on 1 April in each year.