Regulation 9 Transfer of payment entitlements

Scotland

(1)

For the purposes of Article 8(1) of the Direct Payments Implementing Regulation, the transferor of payment entitlements must notify the Scottish Ministers of a transfer within the notification period.

(2)

In this regulation, “the notification period” means the period—

(a)

beginning 16th May of the calendar year preceding the first year in which the transferee may include those entitlements in the transferee's application for direct payments, and

(b)

ending on 2nd April in the first calendar year in which the transferee may include those entitlements in the transferee's application for direct payments,

or if either of those dates is a Saturday, Sunday, Bank Holiday or other public holiday, the next working day.

F1(3)

F2Subject to paragraph (3A), for the purposes of Article 22(1) of the Horizontal Implementing Regulation and Article 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, applications for the allocation of, or the increase of the value of, payment entitlements must be submitted—

(a)

in respect of calendar year 2015, on or before 15th June 2015; or

(b)

in any other calendar year, on or before 15th May, or if that date is a Saturday, Sunday, Bank Holiday or other public holiday, the next working day.

F3(3A)

For the purposes of Article 3 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/761 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 2016, an application for the allocation of, or the increase of the value of, payment entitlements must be submitted, in respect of calendar year 2016, not later than 15th June 2016.

F4(4)

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Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Reg. 9(3) substituted (1.6.2015) by The Common Agricultural Policy (Direct Payments etc.) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2015 (S.S.I. 2015/215), regs. 1(2), 3
F2: Words in reg. 9(3) substituted (18.5.2016) by The Common Agricultural Policy (Direct Payments etc.) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/178), regs. 1(2), 3(a)
F3: Reg. 9(3A) inserted (18.5.2016) by The Common Agricultural Policy (Direct Payments etc.) (Scotland) Amendment (No. 2) Regulations 2016 (S.S.I. 2016/178), regs. 1(2), 3(b)
F4: Reg. 9(4) omitted (1.1.2024) by virtue of The Rural Support (Simplification and Improvement) (Scotland) Regulations 2023 (S.S.I. 2023/308), regs. 1, 5