Regulation 16 Conversion of quota

Changes not yet applied. Later legislation changes this provision in ways not yet written into the text below:

reg. 16(4) words substituted by Dairy Produce Quotas 2001 reg. 8(a)
reg. 16(5) substituted by Dairy Produce Quotas 2001 reg. 8(b)
reg.16 amended by Dairy Produce Quotas 2000 reg.8
reg.16 amended by Dairy Produce Quotas Amendment 2000 reg.8
reg.16 amended by Dairy Produce Quotas 2000 reg 8

(1)

For the purposes of the provisions of Article 4(2) of the Council Regulation (which deals with changes from direct sales to wholesale delivery and vice versa), the second sub-paragraph of Article 2(2) of the Council Regulation (which deals with replacements of purchasers) and this regulation, a producer may apply to convert, temporarily or permanently, direct sales quota for wholesale quota or wholesale quota for direct sales quota.

(2)

Where a producer wishes to convert quota permanently or temporarily in any quota year, he shall submit to the Intervention Board an application in such a form as the Intervention Board may reasonably require for that purpose and such application shall—

(a)

state the amount (if any) of the producer’s direct sales quota, wholesale quota, direct sales and wholesale deliveries for the quota year in which the application is made, and the amount of unused quota which he holds at the time of the application and which he wishes the Intervention Board to convert; and

(b)

include such other information as the Intervention Board may reasonably require in order to assess whether the requirements of Article 4(2) of the Council Regulation and Article 2 of the Commission Regulation are fulfilled.

(3)

The application referred to in paragraph (2) above shall be submitted by the producer to the Intervention Board by—

(a)

31st December in any year in the case of permanent conversion of quota; or

(b)

14th May in any year following the end of the quota year in which the temporary conversion of quota takes place, in the case of temporary conversion of quota.

(4)

Subject to paragraph (5), where a producer has permanently converted quota in any quota year, he shall not subsequently in that quota year transfer out quota, of the type to which he has converted, whether temporarily or otherwise.

(5)

In the quota year commencing 1st April 1997, where the Minister in accordance with section 32(1)(b) of the Animal health Act 1981^f1 has caused animals forming part of a producer’s dairy herd, to be slaughtered as having been exposed to the infection of bovine spongiform encephalopathy, paragraph (4) above shall not apply to that producer.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: 1981 c. 22.