(This note is not part of the Order)

These Regulations make provision for the implementation in Northern Ireland of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/1613 of 8 September 2016 providing for exceptional adjustment aid to milk producers and farmers in other livestock sectors.

Regulations 3, 4, 6 and 7 provide the Department of Agriculture, Environment and Rural Affairs (‘the Department’) with the power to pay financial assistance to beneficiaries, for specified purposes.

Regulations 5 and 8 provide the Department with the power to determine the form of an application for financial assistance.

Regulation 9 allows for payments due to the Department from beneficiaries to be treated by the Department as debt. Regulation 10 sets out how interest to be charged on amounts owed to the Department as debt shall be calculated.

Regulation 11 provides for debts owed to the Department to be deducted from future payments to that beneficiary.

Regulation 12 provides powers of entry to land and premises for the purposes of enforcing these regulations to persons authorised by the Department. Regulation 13 sets out the powers of such authorised persons.

Regulations 14 and 15 make it an offence to obstruct, fail to provide information without reasonable cause or furnish false or misleading information to a person acting to implement these regulations and establishes the penalties which may be imposed.