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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-amendment-regulations-2015/note",
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  "legislation": "uksi/2015/1325",
  "legislation_title": "The Common Agricultural Policy (Amendment) Regulations 2015",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/common-agricultural-policy-amendment-regulations-2015",
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  "kind": "note",
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  "heading": "Explanatory note",
  "text": "(This note is not part of the Regulations)\nThese Regulations amend the Common Agricultural Policy (Control and Enforcement, Cross-Compliance, Scrutiny of Transactions and Appeals) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3263) (“the Control Regulations”) and the Common Agricultural Policy Basic Payment and Support Schemes (England) Regulations 2014 (S.I. 2014/3259) (“the Basic Payment Regulations”) in reliance on the derogations provided for in Articles 1 and 3 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/747 derogating from Implementing Regulation (EU) No 809/2014 as regards the final date of submission of the single application, aid applications or payment claims, the final date for notification of amendments to the single application or payment claim and the final date for applications for allocation of payment entitlements or the increase of the value of payment entitlements under the basic payment scheme for the year 2015 (OJ No L 119, 12.5.2015, p21).\nRegulation 2 amends regulation 3 (competent authority) of the Control Regulations to make further provision to determine the competent authority in the case of holdings that are situated in more than one territory on the last date on which the single application may be submitted. It also amends regulation 5 (applications) to change the final date for submitting a single application, aid application or payment claim in 2015.\nRegulation 3 amends regulation 8 (payment entitlements) of the Basic Payment Regulations to modify the period in which a transferor must notify the Secretary of State of a transfer of payment entitlements for transferees who may first include those entitlements in their 2015 and 2016 applications for direct payments, and to change the deadline for submitting applications for allocation of payment entitlements in 2015.\nAn impact assessment has not been produced for this instrument as no, or no significant, impact on the private, voluntary or public sectors is foreseen.",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "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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