Chapter 3: Other Financial Support After EU Exit Section 15: Aid for fruit and vegetable Producer Organisations
Section 15 provides the Secretary of State with the powers to modify retained EU legislation on the EU Fruit and Vegetable Aid Scheme in England. This scheme provides financial aid to Producer Organisations recognised in the fruit and vegetable sector. The EU regulations underpinning the scheme will be converted into retained direct EU legislation, at the end of the transition period, through the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. The intention is to introduce transitional provisions under section 50(3)(d) to allow approved operational programmes to run through to completion.
	Subsection (1) will enable the Secretary of State to make regulations to ensure that the retained EU legislation (both the CMO and the related Delegated and Implementing Acts that sit underneath the CMO) which underpin the Fruit and Vegetable Aid Scheme), no longer applies in England.
	Subsection (2) confirms that regulations made under this section are subject to the negative resolution procedure, unless section 50(5) applies, in which case the procedure is affirmative.