Statutory Instrument 1997 No. 195

      The Beef (Marketing Payment) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 1997


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STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS

1997 No. 195

AGRICULTURE

The Beef (Marketing Payment) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 1997

  Made 31st January 1997 
  Laid before Parliament 3rd February 1997 
  Coming into force 4th February 1997 

The Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, being Ministers designated[1] for the purposes of section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972[2] 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 and commencement
     1 . These Regulations may be cited as the Beef (Marketing Payment) (No. 2) (Amendment) Regulations 1997 and shall come into force on 4th February 1997.

Amendment of the Beef (Marketing Payment) (No. 2) Regulations 1996
    
2 .  - (1) The Beef (Marketing Payment) (No. 2) Regulations 1996[3] shall be amended in accordance with this regulation.

    (2) Regulation 3(1) shall be replaced by the following - 

        " (1) Subject to the following provisions of these Regulations, the appropriate Minister may make a payment to a beef producer in respect of any heifer, steer or bull - 

      (a) kept prior to 20th March 1996 on a holding belonging to that producer;

      (b) which was - 

        (i) sold by that producer after 30th June 1996 and before 1st October 1996 for slaughter for human consumption;

        (ii) slaughtered by that producer or on his behalf after 19th March 1996 and before 1st October 1996 for sale for human consumption;

        (iii) sold by that producer after 30th September 1996 and before 10th November 1996 for slaughter for human consumption; or

        (iv) slaughtered by that producer or on his behalf after 30th September 1996 and before 10th November 1996 for sale for human consumption;

      (c) for which no payment has previously been made under the Beef (Marketing Payment) Regulations 1996[4] or under these Regulations; and

      (d) the carcase of which was, at the date of slaughter, within category A, B, C, or E as defined in Article 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1208/81[5] determining the Community scale for the classification of carcases of adult bovine animals, as amended by Council Regulation (EEC) No. 1026/91[6].".

    (3) In regulation 4(2) there shall be inserted after "1997" the words "or, in the case of an application in respect of an animal satisfying either of the conditions specified in regulation 3(1)(b)(iii) and (iv), by 24th February 1997".

Angela Browning
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food

31st January 1997
Lindsay
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Scottish Office

30th January 1997


EXPLANATORY NOTE

(This note is not part of the Regulations)


These Regulations amend the Beef (Marketing Payment) (No. 2) Regulations 1996 to provide for further payments to be made by the appropriate Minister (defined in regulation 2 of the principal Regulations) to beef producers in the United Kingdom in pursuance of Article 4(b) of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1357/96 (OJ No. L175, 13.7.96, p.9), which permits member States to make additional payments to producers in the beef and veal sector.

The Regulations make provision for such payments to be made in respect of certain bovine animals sold after 30th September 1996 and before 10th November 1996 for slaughter for human consumption, and also in respect of animals slaughtered in the same period by or on behalf of a beef producer for sale for human consumption.


Notes:

[1] S.I. 1972/1811. back

[2] 1972 c.68. back

[3] S.I. 1996/2999. back

[4] S.I. 1996/2005, amended by S.I. 1996/2561. back

[5] OJ No. L123, 7.5.81, p.3. back

[6] OJ No. L106, 26.4.91, p.2. back



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