Regulation 4 Applications for premium etc.

United Kingdom

(1)

For the purposes of Article 6(2)(b) of Council Regulation 1254/1999, the total individual reference quantity which must not be exceeded shall be 180,000 kilograms of milk or milk products.

(2)

For the purposes of Article 30(2) of Commission Regulation 2342/1999, the period in each calendar year during which an application for premium may be submitted shall be the period from and including 1st July to and including 6th December in that calendar year.

(3)

A producer shall not be entitled to submit more than one application for premium during any one calendar year.

(4)

Where in respect of any given calendar year a number of applications for premium are submitted by persons who have in respect of that year made more than one area aid application under Article 6 of Council Regulation 3508/92 but who are regarded as a single farmer within the meaning of Article 1(4) of that Regulation, the applications concerned shall be deemed to be a single application made by one producer for the purposes of paragraph (3).

(5)

Where any additional payment provided for by—

(a)

Article 1 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 2443/96 providing for additional measures for direct support of producers' incomes or for the beef and veal sector^f1, or

(b)

Article 14 of Council Regulation 1254/1999,

is made to a successful applicant, then—

(i)

he shall be deemed to have applied for that payment under this regulation in the like manner that he applied for the premium concerned;

(ii)

the application he is deemed to have made as aforesaid shall for the purposes of paragraph (3) of this regulation be regarded as one and the same as the application he did make and which attracted that additional payment; and

(iii)

the additional payment shall for the purposes of regulations 5 to 15 be regarded as a payment of premium.

Annotations

Footnotes

f1: OJ No. L333, 21.12.96, p.2.