Article 3
United Kingdom
Applications for the grubbing up premium shall be submitted to the competent authorities of the Member States before commencement of the grubbing up operations and not later than 15 February 1998. Member States may set an earlier deadline for submission. Applications shall contain the following:
the name and address of the applicant;
the name, if any, and address of the holding concerned;
for each parcel planted with apple trees, pear trees, peach trees and/or nectarine trees, the total area planted with those species, broken down by species, and the information, of an administrative nature, from the land register and/or in graphic form, required to identify and locate the parcel and the area planted;
for each of the parcels on which grubbing up operations are to take place and for which the premium is applied for, the total number of trees within the meaning of Article 1 (1), broken down by species, and the breakdown by variety of the area planted;
where necessary, the information, of an administrative nature, from the land register and/or in graphic form, required to identify and locate the parcels on which a grubbing up operation has been carried out pursuant to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1200/90f1 as regards apple trees or pursuant to Council Regulation (EC) No 2505/95f2 as regards peach trees and nectarine trees.
Applications shall be accompanied:
by a written undertaking by the applicant to refrain for a period of 15 years, first, from planting any apple trees (other than cider-apple trees), pear trees (other than perry-pear trees), peach trees and/or nectarine trees on the areas of his holding affected by the grubbing up operation and, second, from extending the other areas of his holding planted with apple trees (other than cider-apple trees), pear trees (other than perry-pear trees), peach trees and/or nectarine trees;
under the conditions laid down by national law, by the written consent to the grubbing up operation of the owner of the parcels planted with apple trees, pear trees, peach trees and/or nectarine trees. Such consent of the owner or owners shall constitute an undertaking by the same, in the event of the sale, leasing or transfer by any other method of such parcels during the period referred to in point (a), to transfer to any new grower the undertaking referred to therein.