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Article 55 Programmes and financingF8C1C2C3C4

United Kingdom

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1.

With a view to improving general conditions for the production and marketing of apiculture products, F1the appropriate authority may draw up F2programmes for the apiculture sector in the constituent nation covering a period of three years ("apiculture programmes"). These programmes shall be developed in cooperation with representative organisations in the beekeeping field.

F3By way of derogation from the first subparagraph, apiculture programmes drawn up for the period running from 1 August 2019 until 31 July 2022 shall be extended until 31 December 2022. The appropriate authority shall modify its apiculture programmes to take account of that extension.

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3.

F5Before drawing up a programme under paragraph 1, the appropriate authority must carry out a study of the production and marketing structure in the beekeeping sector in F6the constituent nation.

4.

The following measures may be included in apiculture programmes:

(a)

technical assistance to beekeepers and beekeepers' organisations;

(b)

combating beehive invaders and diseases, particularly varroasis;

(c)

rationalisation of transhumance;

(d)

measures to support laboratories for the analysis of apiculture products with the aim of helping beekeepers to market and increase the value of their products;

(e)

measures to support the restocking of hives F7...;

(f)

cooperation with specialised bodies for the implementation of applied research programmes in the field of beekeeping and apiculture products;

(g)

market monitoring;

(h)

enhancement of product quality with a view to exploiting the potential of products on the market.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1

Words in Art. 55(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products Framework (Miscellaneous Amendments, etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/821), regs. 1, 21(b)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F2

Words in Art. 55(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products Framework (Miscellaneous Amendments, etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/821), regs. 1, 21(b)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F3

Words in Art. 55(1) substituted (22.7.2022) by The Common Agricultural Policy (Cross-Compliance Exemptions and Transitional Regulation) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2022 (S.I. 2022/861), regs. 1(2), 4(2)

F4

Art. 55(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products Framework (Miscellaneous Amendments, etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/821), regs. 1, 21(c); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F5

Words in Art. 55(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products Framework (Miscellaneous Amendments, etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/821), regs. 1, 21(d)(i); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F6

Words in Art. 55(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products Framework (Miscellaneous Amendments, etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/821), regs. 1, 21(d)(ii); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F7

Words in Art. 55(4)(e) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products Framework (Miscellaneous Amendments, etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/821), regs. 1, 21(e); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

F8

Word in Art. 55 heading substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products Framework (Miscellaneous Amendments, etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/821), regs. 1, 21(a); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)

Modifications

C1

Arts. 55-57: power to modify conferred (W.) (11.11.2020 for specified purposes and 11.1.2021 otherwise) by Agriculture Act 2020 (c. 21), s. 57(1)(b)(c)(6), Sch. 5 para. 5 (with s. 47)

C2

Arts. 55-57: power to modify conferred (N.I.) (11.11.2020 for specified purposes and 11.1.2021 otherwise) by Agriculture Act 2020 (c. 21), s. 57(1)(b)(c)(6), Sch. 6 para. 6

C3

Arts. 55-57: power to modify conferred (W.) (17.10.2023) by Agriculture (Wales) Act 2023 (asc 4), ss. 18, 56(2)(c) (with s. 20)

C4

Arts. 55-57: power to modify conferred (S.) (16.6.2025) by Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) Act 2020 (asp 17), s. 7A (as inserted by Agriculture and Rural Communities (Scotland) Act 2024 (asp 11), ss. 28, 38(2); S.S.I. 2025/167, reg. 2(1))