Explanatory note

These Regulations amend the Dairy Produce Quotas Regulations 1993 (“the principal Regulations”) and implement Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2187/93. Under that Council Regulation, compensation is offered to certain milk producers who were temporarily prevented from carrying on their trade because, during the reference year for the allocation of milk quotas, they were participating in a scheme for the non-marketing of milk and milk products and for the conversion of dairy herds^f1 and therefore did not have quota allocated to them.

These Regulations expand the definition of “Community legislation” in the principal Regulations (regulation 4) and provide that the Minister may withhold or recover compensation in whole or in part where a producer has made a false or misleading statement in his application for compensation or has failed to comply with the relevant Community rules (regulation 5).