The Direct Payments to Farmers (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2021

Amendment of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013

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5.—(1) Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy(1) is amended, insofar as it relates to direct payments, as follows.

(2) In Article 105—

(a)omit paragraph 1;

(b)in paragraph 2, in the second sentence, for “Subject to Article 108, they” substitute “They”.

(3) Omit Article 106(4).

(4) Omit Article 108.

(5) In Article 112, in the first paragraph, for the words from “the Funds” to “exit day)” substitute “agricultural support”.

(1)

EUR 2013/1306, amended in relation to direct payment schemes by S.I. 2020/90 and 576. EUR 2013/1306 is also amended prospectively with effect from IP completion day by S.I. 2019/748 (as amended by S.I. 2019/831), 763 (as amended by S.I. 2019/812), 831 and 1402. However, by virtue of the amendments in The Agriculture (Payments) (Amendment, etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020, these prospective amendments do not have effect in relation to direct payment schemes.