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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arable-area-payments-amendment-regulations-1998/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/1998/3169",
  "legislation_title": "The Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1998",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/arable-area-payments-amendment-regulations-1998",
  "path": "note",
  "kind": "note",
  "number": null,
  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations further amend, with effect from 15th January 1999, the Arable Area Payments Regulations 1996 (S.I. 1996/3142) (“the principal Regulations”), as amended by the Arable Area Payments (Amendment) Regulations 1997 (S.I. 1997/2969). The principal Regulations, as amended, implement Council Regulation 1765/92 (OJ No. L181, 1.7.92, p. 12), which establishes a support system for producers of certain arable crops, and Commission Regulations 334/93 (OJ No. L38, 16.2.93, p. 12), 762/94 (OJ No. L90, 7.4.94, p. 8), 658/96 (OJ No. L91, 12.4.96, p. 46) and 1586/97 (OJ No. L215, 7.8.97, p. 3).\nThese Regulations–\n(a) amend the rules relating to exchanges of eligible for ineligible land consequent on changes made to Article 2(5) of Commission Regulation 658/96 by Article 1 of Commission Regulation 1589/98 (regulation 3(3));\n(b) delete the provision permitting a farmer to claim set-aside compensatory payment on land which he had not farmed for the two years prior to the commencement of the set-aside period, consequent on Article 1 of Commission Regulation 1981/98, which repeals Article 3(4) of Commission Regulation 762/94 (regulation 3(4) and (7));\n(c) provide, in consequence of amendments to Commission Regulation 658/96 by Commission Regulation 760/98 (OJ No. L105, 4.4.98, p. 8), for conditions for the payment of a supplement in respect of compensatory payments for durum wheat (regulation 3(5)) and lay down record-keeping requirements in relation to the payment of the supplement (regulation 3(6));\n(d) permit the application of plant protection products other than herbicides on set-aside land after 15th July in any year, in preparation for the sowing of a crop for harvest the following year, and modify the restrictions on the application of herbicides to set-aside land where the herbicide is applied in preparation for growing a crop (regulation 3(8)(b)); and\n(e) make a number of additional, minor modifications.\nNo regulatory impact assessment has been prepared in respect of these Regulations.",
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  "version": "current",
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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