The Sheep Annual Premium (Amendment) (Wales) Regulations 2003

Explanatory Note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

These Regulations, which come into force on 3rd February 2003, amend the Sheep Annual Premium Regulations 1992 (S.I. 1992/2677, as already amended by S.I. 1994/2741, 1995/2779, 1996/49, 1997/2500 and 2000/2573) (“the principal Regulations”).

They amend the principal Regulations in so far as to a “relevant extent” the latter relate to any producer for the purposes of Council Regulation (EC) No.2529/2001 laying down general rules for the grant of premium to sheepmeat and goatmeat producers (OJ No. L341, 22.12.2001, p.3). The “relevant extent” for this purpose is the extent to which, in relation to the holding of the producer in question, the National Assembly for Wales is the relevant competent authority for the purposes of the Integrated Administration and Control System Regulations 1993 (S.I. 1993/1317, as amended by S.I. 1994/1134, 1997/1148, 1999/1820 and 2000/2573).

The Regulations insert a new regulation 8 into the principal Regulations which imposes record-keeping requirements on those producers relating to specified events. In addition, they make consequential amendments to the principal Regulations. These record-keeping requirements implement Article 4(1)(b) of Council Directive (EC) No. 92/102 on the identification and registration of animals (OJ No. L355, 5.12.92, p.32) and were previously specified in article 5 of the Sheep and Goats Identification (Wales) Regulations 2000 (S.I. 2000/2335 (W.152)).

No Regulatory Appraisal has been prepared in respect of these Regulations.