Article 16 Non-producer members

United Kingdom

F1Any natural or legal person who is not a producer may be accepted as a member of a producer organisation F2if and for so long as there is no conflict of interest between that person and the producer organisation.

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The natural or legal persons referred to in paragraph 1 shall not:

(a)

be taken into account for the recognition criteria;

(b)

benefit directly from the measures financed F4from public funds.

F5Restrictions on the right of a natural or legal person to vote on decisions relating to operational funds are set out in Annex VIII to this Regulation.

F6(4.)

By way of derogation from paragraph 3(b), an existing non-UK member of an ex-transnational producer organisation may continue to benefit directly from measures financed from public funds, where:

(a)

those measures are contained in an F7ongoing operational programme that was F8being implemented by that organisation before IP completion day; and

(b)

that member was entitled to benefit from those measures immediately before IP completion day.

Annotations

Textual amendments

F1: Word in Art. 16(1) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products (Producer Organisations and Wine) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1446), regs. 1(3), 5(13)(a)(i)
F2: Words in Art. 16(1) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products (Producer Organisations and Wine) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1446), regs. 1(3), 5(13)(a)(ii)
F3: Art. 16(2) omitted (31.12.2020) by virtue of The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products (Producer Organisations and Wine) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1446), regs. 1(3), 5(13)(b)
F4: Words in Art. 16(3)(b) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products (Producer Organisations and Wine) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1446), regs. 1(3), 5(13)(c)(i)
F5: Words in Art. 16(3) substituted (31.12.2020) by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products (Producer Organisations and Wine) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1446), regs. 1(3), 5(13)(c)(ii)
F6: Art. 16(4) inserted (31.12.2020) by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products (Producer Organisations and Wine) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1446), regs. 1(3), 5(13)(d)
F7: Word in Art. 16(4)(a) inserted (25.6.2021) by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products (Fruit and Vegetable Producer Organisations, Tariff Quotas and Wine) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/756), regs. 1(2), 4(7)(a)
F8: Word in Art. 16(4)(a) inserted (25.6.2021) by The Common Organisation of the Markets in Agricultural Products (Fruit and Vegetable Producer Organisations, Tariff Quotas and Wine) (Amendment etc.) Regulations 2021 (S.I. 2021/756), regs. 1(2), 4(7)(b)