The Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Integrated Administration and Control System) Regulations 2009

Made: 9th December 2009

Laid before Parliament: 11th December 2009

Coming into force: 1st January 2010

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Title and commencement

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Interpretation

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Competent authority

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Designated coordinating authority

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Applications

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Minimum size of agricultural area

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Interest

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Recovery of payments

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Powers of authorised persons

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Offences and penalties

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Liability of Directors etc.

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Offences by partnerships and unincorporated associations

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Agency arrangements

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Set off

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Revocations and savings

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Signed

Jim Fitzpatrick — Minister of State — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 2009-12-09

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations apply throughout the United Kingdom. They revoke with savings the Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Integrated Administration and Control System) Regulations 2005 (S.I. 2005/218).

They make provision for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No. 73/2009 (“the Council Regulation”) (OJ No L 30, 31.1.2009, p 16), in relation to establishing an integrated administration and control system (“IACS”) for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy. In addition these Regulations implement certain provisions of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1122/2009 (O.J. No L 316, 2,12,2009, p 65), laying down detailed rules for the implementation of the integrated administration and control system.

Regulation 3 specifies which competent authority may determine the single application for direct payments, and regulation 4 designates the authority responsible for coordinating the checks referred to in the Council Regulation.

Regulation 5 specifies that the last day on which the single application may be submitted to the competent authority is 15th May and provides exceptions if 15th May is either a Saturday, Sunday, Bank Holiday or public holiday.

Regulation 6 prescribes the minimum size of an agricultural parcel in respect of which the single application may be made.

Regulation 7 provides for the rate of interest that may be charged on a repayment due from the farmer, and regulation 8 specifies that the repayment amount is recoverable as a debt.

Regulation 9 confers an authorised person of a competent authority, powers of entry and other powers for the purposes of enforcing the Regulations.

Regulation 10 creates offences and penalties. Regulation 11 contains provisions relating to the liability of directors, and regulation 12 relates to proceedings against partnerships and unincorporated associations.

Regulation 13 permits competent authorities to enter into agency arrangements with each other for the purpose of exercising their IACS functions specified in the Council Regulation.

Regulation 14 enables set off between sums due to competent authorities and sums due to a farmer.

Regulation 15 revokes the Common Agricultural Policy Single Payment and Support Schemes (Integrated Administration and Control System) Regulations 2005, but provides savings.

A full impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sectors is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: S.I. 1972/1811.

[^f00002]: 1972 c. 68, the power of the Secretary of State to make regulations in relation to Scotland remains exercisable by virtue of section 57(1) of the Scotland Act 1998 (1998 c.46), in relation to Wales by article 4(4) of the European Communities (Designation) (No.3) Order 2005 (S.I. 2005/2766), functions of the National Assembly of Wales are now transferred to the Welsh Ministers by section 162 of, and paragraph 30 of Schedule 11 to, the Government of Wales Act 2006 (c.32), and in relation to Northern Ireland by article 3(2) of the European Communities (Designation) (No. 3) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/2812).

[^f00003]: OJ No L 316, 2.12.2009, p 65.

[^f00004]: OJ No L 30, 31.1.2009, p 16, last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 992/2009 (OJ No L 278, 23.10.2009, p 7).

[^f00005]: S.I. 2005/218.

[^f00006]: 1971 c. 80; Schedule 1 as last amended by section 1 of the St Andrew’s Day Bank Holiday (Scotland) Act 2007 (2007 asp 2).

[^f00007]: O.J. No. L160, 26.6.99, p 103.

[^f00008]: 1995 c.46.

[^f00009]: 1925 c. 86. Subsections (1) and (2) of section 33 were repealed by the Magistrates Courts Act 1952 (c. 55), section 132 and Schedule 6; subsection (3) was amended by the Courts Act 1971 (c. 23), section 56(1) and Schedule 8, part II, paragraph 19; subsection (4) was amended by the Courts Act 2003 (c. 39), section 109(1) and (3), Schedule 8, paragraph 71 and Schedule 10, and by the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1980 (c. 43), section 154 and Schedule 7, paragraph 5; subsection (5) was repealed by the Magistrates’ Courts Act 1952, section 132, Schedule 6.

[^f00010]: 1980 c. 43. Sub-paragraph 2(a) was amended by the Criminal Procedure and Investigations Act 1996 (c. 25), section 47, Schedule 1, paragraph 13, and was repealed by the Criminal Justice Act 2003 (c. 44), sections 41 and 332, Schedule 3, part 2, paragraph 51, sub-paragraphs (1), (13)(a) and Schedule 37, part 4 (with effect from a date to be appointed); paragraph 5 was repealed by the Criminal Justice Act 1991 (c. 53), sections 25(2) and 101(2) and Schedule 13; paragraph 6 was amended by the Criminal Justice Act 2003, section 41, Schedule 3, part 2, paragraph 51, sub-paragraphs (1) and (13)(b) (with effect from a date to be appointed).

[^f00011]: Section 70 last amended by section 28 of the Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007 (2007 asp 6).

[^f00012]: Section 143 last amended by section 17 of the Criminal Proceedings etc. (Reform) (Scotland) Act 2007 (2007 asp 6).

[^f00013]: 1945 c.15 (N.I.).

[^f00014]: S.I. 1981/1675 (N.I. 26).

Editorial notes

[^key-9b74eb70119916b33747cc14ce73c2ba]: Regulations revoked (1.1.2015) by The Common Agricultural Policy (Control and Enforcement, Cross-Compliance, Scrutiny of Transactions and Appeals) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3263), Sch. 5 (with reg. 35)

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