The Suckler Cow Premium (Scotland) Regulations 2001

Applications for premium etc.

4.—(1) For the purpose of Article 6(2)(b) of Council Regulation 1254/1999, the total individual reference quantity which must not be exceeded shall be 180,000 kilograms of milk or milk products.

(2) For the purpose of Article 30(2) of Commission Regulation 2342/1999, the period in each calendar year during which an application for premium may be submitted shall be the period from and including 1st July to and including 6th December in that calendar year.

(3) A producer shall not be entitled to submit more than one application for premium during any one calendar year.

(4) Where, in respect of any particular calendar year, a number of applications for premium are submitted by persons who have in respect of that year made more than one area aid application under Article 6 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3508/92 but who are regarded as a single farmer within the meaning of Article 1(4) of that Regulation, the applications concerned shall be deemed to be a single application made by one producer for the purposes of paragraph (3).

(5) Where any additional payment provided for by–

(a) Article 1 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 2443/96 providing for additional measures for direct support of producers' incomes or for the beef and veal sector(1); or

(b) Article 14 of Council Regulation 1254/1999,

is made to a successful applicant, then–

(i) the applicant shall be deemed to have applied for that payment under this regulation in the like manner that the applicant applied for the premium concerned;

(ii) the application the applicant is deemed to have made as aforesaid shall for the purposes of paragraph (3) be regarded as the same as the application made by that person and which attracted that additional payment; and

(iii) the additional payment shall for the purposes of regulations 5 to 15 be regarded as a payment of that premium.

(1)

O.J. No. L 333, 21.12.96, p.2.