CHAPTER II U.K. GENERAL RULES

Article 4 U.K. Security

Operators shall lodge a security in favour of the relevant paying agency in accordance with Section 2 of Chapter IV of Delegated Regulation (EU) No 907/2014 when:

(a)

submitting an offer or a tender for the buying-in or sale of intervention productsF1 ...;

(b)

submitting a tender or an application for aid for private storage unless F2 ... the tendering procedure or [F3 the Regulations] fixing the amount of aid in advance as referred to in Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1240 [F4 provide] otherwise.

[F5 This Article does not apply in relation to public intervention schemes in England, otherwise than in connection with exceptional market conditions which are the subject of a declaration under section 20 of the Agriculture Act 2020, or in relation to private storage aid schemes in England.]

[F6 This Article ceases to apply in relation to public intervention schemes in Scotland, otherwise than in connection with public intervention measures which the appropriate authority takes under Article 219(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, for a period of five years beginning on 1 July 2023.

This Article ceases to apply in relation to private storage aid schemes in Scotland.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Words in Art. 4(a) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Market Measures Payment Schemes (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/823), regs. 1, 5(4); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2 Word in Art. 4(b) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Market Measures Payment Schemes (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/823), regs. 1, 5(4A)(a) (as inserted by S.I. 2020/1445, regs. 1(2)(a), 15(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3 Words in Art. 4(b) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures Payment Schemes (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/823), regs. 1, 5(4A)(b) (as inserted by S.I. 2020/1445, regs. 1(2)(a), 15(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F4 Word in Art. 4(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Market Measures Payment Schemes (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/823), regs. 1, 5(4A)(c) (as inserted by S.I. 2020/1445, regs. 1(2)(a), 15(2)); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F5 Words in Art. 4 inserted (E.) (28.2.2023 at 9.10 a.m.) by The Market Measures Payment Schemes (Amendments, Revocation and Transitional Provision) (England) Regulations 2023 (S.I. 2023/124), regs. 1(2)(b), 8(4) (with reg. 10)

F6 Words in Art. 4 inserted (S.) (1.7.2023) by The Public Intervention and Private Storage Aid (Amendment and Suspension) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/150), regs. 1, 8(4) (with reg. 10)