Regulation 3 Production regions

(1)

For the purposes of Article 3 of Council Regulation 1765/92, the production regions in Great Britain shall be–

(a)

England;

(b)

land in Wales which is included in the list of less-favoured farming areas adopted by the Council of the European Communities under Article 2(2) of Council Directive 75/268/EEC on mountain and hill farming in less-favoured areas^f1 which list is contained in Council Directive 84/169/EEC^f2;

(c)

all other land in Wales;

(d)

land in Scotland which is included in the list described in sub-paragraph (b) above; and

(e)

all other land in Scotland.

(2)

In order to take account of structural differences between the production regions of the United Kingdom as envisaged by the second paragraph of Article 3(1) of Council Regulation 1765, 92, the average cereals yields calculated in accordance with Article 3(2) of that Regulation shall be adjusted, and the adjusted average cereals yield for each production region of Great Britain (determined in accordance with the regionalisation plan submitted by the United Kingdom to the Commission of the European Communities pursuant to Article 3(3) of Council Regulation 1765/92) shall be calculated as follows–

(a)

the adjusted average cereals yield for each production region of Great Britain shall be the sum of 60% of the average cereals yield for that region determined in accordance with Article 3(2) of Council Regulation 1765/92 and 40% of the average cereals yield for the United Kingdom; and

(b)

for the purposes of sub-paragraph (a) above, the average cereals yield for the United Kingdom shall be calculated in accordance with the method set out in Article 3(2) of Council Regulation 1765/92, by treating the United Kingdom as if it were a single production region.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: OJ No. L 128, 19.5.75, p. 1, as last amended by the Act concerning the conditions of accession of the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland and Kingdom of Sweden and the adjustments to the Treaties on which the European Union is founded.
f2: OJ No. L 82, 26.3.84, p. 67, as amended by Commission Decision 91/25/EEC (OJ No. L 16, 22.1.91, p. 25).