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SCOTTISH STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS


2006 No. 213

AGRICULTURE

The Land Management Contracts (Menu Scheme) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006

  Made 20th April 2006 
  Laid before the Scottish Parliament 21st April 2006 
  Coming into force 15th May 2006 

The Scottish Ministers, in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972[1] and of all other powers enabling them in that behalf, hereby make the following Regulations:

Citation and commencement
     1. These Regulations may be cited as the Land Management Contracts (Menu Scheme) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2006 and come into force on 15th May 2006.

Amendment of the Land Management Contracts (Menu Scheme) (Scotland) Regulations 2005
    
2. The Land Management Contracts (Menu Scheme) (Scotland) Regulations 2005[2] are amended in accordance with regulations 3 to 5.

Amendment of regulation 3
     3. In regulation 3(1) (applications for aid) for "(4)" substitute "(2)".

Amendment of Schedule 1
    
4. In Schedule 1 (menu option activities, eligibility conditions and rates of payment)–

Amendment of Schedule 3
    
5. In Schedule 3 (interpretation of Schedules)–


ROSS FINNIE
A member of the Scottish Executive

Pentland House, Edinburgh
20th April 2006



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.


Notes:

[1] 1972 c.68. Section 2(2) was amended by the Scotland Act 1998 (c.46), Schedule 8, paragraph 15. The functions conferred upon the Minister of the Crown under section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, insofar as within devolved competence, were transferred to the Scottish Ministers by virtue of section 53 of the Scotland Act 1998.back

[2] S.S.I. 2005/225, as amended by S.S.I. 2006/127.back

[3] 1994 c.39.back

[4] )2000 asp10.back



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 © Crown copyright 2006

Prepared 27 April 2006


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