1995 No. 15
AGRICULTURE

The Suckler Cow Premium (Amendment) Regulations 1995

Made
Laid before Parliament
Coming into force
The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, being Ministers designated1 for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 19722 in relation to the common agricultural policy of the European Community, acting jointly in exercise of the powers conferred on them by that section and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Title, extent and commencement1.

These Regulations may be cited as the Suckler Cow Premium (Amendment) Regulations 1995, shall extend to Great Britain and shall come into force on 30th January 1995.

Amendments to the Suckler Cow Premium Regulations 19932.

(1)

The Suckler Cow Premium Regulations 19933 shall be amended in accordance with the following paragraph of this regulation.

(2)

In paragraph (2) of regulation 4 (retention of records), delete sub-paragraph (b). Insert instead—

(b)

retain for such period any records which he has kept under—

(i)

article 3(1) of the Movement of Animals (Records) Order 19604 and article 9(1) of the Bovine Animals (Identification, Marking and Breeding Records) Order 19905, and

(ii)

article 5(1) of the Bovine Animals (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 19956;

provided that the suckler cows for which an application for Community premium was made are clearly distinguished from the other suckler cows recorded in such records.

Michael Jack
Minister of State, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
Hector Monro
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
1.

These Regulations make a change to the Suckler Cow Premium Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/1441 as already amended by S.I. 1994/1528, together referred to in this note as the “Existing Regulations”).

2.

Like the Existing Regulations, these Regulations extend to Great Britain only.

3.

The amendment is due to the making of the Bovine Animals (Records, Identification and Movement) Order 1995 (S.I. 1995/12, referred to in this note as the “BARIM Order”) which implements in the UK Council Directive 92/102/EEC (OJ No. L355, 5.12.92, p.32).

4.

The BARIM Order replaces the Movement of Animals (Records) Order 1960 (S.I. 1960/105, to which amendments relevant to the Existing Regulations were made by S.I. 1961/1493 and S.I. 1989/879) and the Bovine Animals (Identification, Marking and Breeding Records) Order 1990 (S.I. 1990/1867, amended by S.I. 1993/503) (together referred to in this note as the “Existing Orders”).

5.

Regulation 4(2)(b) of the Existing Regulations requires, in certain circumstances, the retention of records made under the Existing Orders. It is amended to take account of their replacement by the BARIM Order.