The Common Agricultural Policy (Less Favoured Area Support) (EU Exit) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2020

JurisdictionScotland
CitationSSI 2020/456
Year2020
S C O T T I S H S T A T U T O R Y I N S T R U M E N T S
2020 No. 456
EXITING THE EUROPEAN UNION
AGRICULTURE
The Common Agricultural Policy (Less Favoured Area Support)
(EU Exit) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2020
Made - - - - 17th December 2020
Coming into force in accordance with regulation 1
The Scottish Ministers make the following Regulations in exercise of the powers conferred by
paragraph 1(1) and (3) of Schedule 2 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018(a) (the “2018
Act”) and sections 2, 3 and 4 of the Agriculture (Retained EU Law and Data) (Scotland) A ct
2020(b) (the “2020 Act”), and all other powers enabling them to do so.
In accordance with paragraph 1(7) of Schedule 7 of the 2018 Act and sections 2(3), 3(4) and 4(3)
of the 2020 Act, a draft of this instrument has been laid before and approved by resolution of the
Scottish Parliament.
Citation and commencement
1.—(1) These Regulations may be cited as the Common Agricultural Policy (Less Favoured
Area Support) (EU Exit) (Scotland) Amendment Regulations 2020, and come into force as
follows.
(2) Subject to paragraph (3), these Regulations come into force on 1 January 2021.
(3) This regulation and regulation 3(4) come into force on IP completion day.
2.—(1) Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of
17 December 2013 on the support for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for
Rural Development (EAFRD) and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005(c) is
amended as follows.
(2) In Article 31 (payments to areas facing natural or other specific constraints), for paragraph 5
substitute—
5. In addition to the payments provided for in paragraph 2, the relevant authority may
grant payments under this measure between 2014 and 2024 to beneficiaries in areas which
(a) 2018 c.16.
(c) EUR 1305/2013.

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