# The Land Management Contracts (Menu Scheme) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006, Note: Explanatory note


(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations, which extend to Scotland only, amend the Land Management Contracts (Menu Scheme) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 (S.S.I. 2005/225), which implement Articles 9, 22, 23, 24, 30 and 33 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1257/1999 ((O.J. No. L 160, 26.06.99, p.80) as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No. 1783/2003 (O.J. No. L 270, 21.10.03, p.70), the Act of Accession (O.J. No. L 236, 23.9.03, p.33), Council Regulation (EC) No. 567/2004 (O.J. No. L 90, 27.3.04, p.1) and Council Regulation (EC) No. 583/2004 (O.J. No. L 153, 30.4.04, p.30)) on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund.
The Regulations amend certain options under the Land Management Contracts Menu Scheme in relation to the scheme activities and eligibility conditions (regulations 2 and 4). The amendments also update the reference to dates to the relevant scheme years (regulation 4). They also introduce a number of relevant definitions (regulation 5).
The Land Management Contracts (Menu Scheme) (Scotland) Regulations 2005 provide for payment of aid to be made to any person who enters into an undertaking with the Scottish Ministers to carry out, or as the case may be to carry out and maintain, the activities relevant to at least one of the Menu Options set out in Schedule 1 those Regulations and to comply with the general environmental requirements set out in Schedule 2 to those Regulations.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ssi/2006/213/note (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/land-management-contracts-menu-scheme-scotland-amendment-regulations-2006/note
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