Part 1: Amendments relating to Chapter 3 of Part 2 (intervention in markets)
301.Part 2 of Schedule 7 to the 2020 Act disapplies certain provisions of the CMO Regulation, in relation to Wales, for the duration of existing time limited provision about exceptional market conditions in Schedule 5 to the 2020 Act. (The disapplied provisions relate to exceptional market conditions.)
302.Since the Act is replacing the time limited provision in Schedule 5 to the 2020 Act, Part 1 of Schedule 3 amends the CMO Regulation in consequence in relation to intervention in markets (in that the amendment made to the CMO Regulation by Schedule 7 to the 2020 Act will cease to be appropriate). But since the amendment made by Schedule 7 to the 2020 Act to the CMO Regulation is not yet in force, Schedule 3 provides (in Part 1) alternative consequential amendments to the CMO Regulation.
303.The amendment at paragraph 1 makes provision that applies if paragraph 2 of Schedule 7 to the 2020 Act has been brought into force before paragraph 1 of Schedule 3 (and has amended the CMO Regulation for Wales in order to disapply Article 219, 220, 221 and 222 of Part V of the CMO Regulation for Wales).
304.The effect of the paragraph 1 amendment is to amend the amendment made to the CMO Regulation by paragraph 2 of Schedule 7 to the 2020 Act, by removing the time limited element of that amendment (the time limited element is no longer appropriate since the provision made by the Act for exceptional market conditions is not time limited). The end result is that Articles 219, 220, 221 and 222 of Part V of the CMO Regulation are disapplied in relation to agricultural producers in Wales, on an open-ended basis.
305.The effect of paragraph 2 is the same: to disapply Articles 219, 220, 221 and 222 of Part V of the CMO Regulation in relation to agricultural producers in Wales, on an open-ended basis. However, the amendment in this paragraph is structured differently and will have effect only if the amendment at paragraph 2 of Schedule 7 to the 2020 Act has not been commenced before Part 1 of Schedule 3 is commenced.
