The Common Agricultural Policy Support Schemes (Modulation) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2000
These Regulations, which come into force on 1st January 2001, implement as respects Northern Ireland Articles 4 and 5 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1259/1999 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy of the European Community (O.J. No. L160, 26.6.1999, p. 113), (“the Council Regulation”). Article 4 of the Council Regulation permits Member States to reduce the amounts of payments under the support schemes listed in the Annex to that Regulation where (inter alia) the total amounts of payments granted under such support schemes in respect of a calendar year exceed limits to be decided by the Member State in question. In the United Kingdom that limit has been set at nil and the reduction is therefore applicable in relation to all payments under the specified support schemes. The amounts by which such payments are reduced are required to be made available as additional Community support for any of the rural development measures specified in Article 5(2) of the Council Regulation, in so far as they apply in the Member State concerned.