Explanatory note
(This note is not part of the Regulations)
These Regulations amend the Rural Development Grants (Agriculture) (Wales) Regulations 1996 (“the principal Regulations”) which supplement—
Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2052/88 (OJ No. L185, 15.7.88, p.9) as amended by Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2081/93 (OJ No. L193, 31.7.93, p.5) and Council Regulation (EC) No. 3193/94 (OJ No. L337, 24.12.94, p.11),
Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4253/88 (OJ No. L374, 31.12.88, p.1) as amended by Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2082/93 (OJ No. L193, 31.7.93, p.20), and Council Regulation (EC) No. 3193/94 (OJ No. L337, 24.12.94, p.11), and
Council Regulation (EEC) No. 4256/88 (OJ No. L374, 31.12.88, p.25) as amended by Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2085/93 (OJ No. L193, 31.7.93, p.44),
which together provide, inter alia, for assistance from the Guidance section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund towards operations which promote rural development by facilitating the development and structural adjustment of certain rural areas.
The Regulations enable operations falling within the operational programme approved by the Commission of the European Communities by way of Decision No. C(95) 440/2 to be eligible for grant, amend and add to the references to Community legislation in Regulation 11 of the principal Regulations and in the Schedule thereto, and add a requirement for the Secretary of State to give reasons and allow the beneficiary to make representations before exercising the power of revocation and recovery in regulation 11(1) of the principal Regulations (regulation 2).
Copies of the Commission Decision and of the operational programme referred to in regulation 2(5)(b) may be inspected at the offices of the Welsh Office Agriculture Department at Cathays Park, Cardiff CF1 3NQ (Tel: 01222 823623).
No compliance cost assessment has been carried out in relation to these Regulations.