Biomass Processing Challenge Fund (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011

Made: 21st January 2011

Coming into operation: 14th February 2011

The Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in exercise of the powers conferred by section 2(2) of the European Communities Act 1972, makes the following Regulations.

Citation and commencement

1

These Regulations may be cited as the Biomass Processing Challenge Fund (Amendment) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2011 and shall come into operation on 14th February 2011.

Amendment to the Biomass Processing Challenge Fund Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010

2

The Biomass Processing Challenge Fund Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010[^f00003] are amended as set out in Regulations 3 to 6.

Definitions

3

In regulation 2(1)—

• (a) the following definitions are revoked, that is to say—

• “Community legislation”,

• “The Commission Regulation”,

• “The Council Regulation”,

• “The ERDF Regulation”; and after the definition of “Department” there shall be inserted the following definition— “EU legislation” means the provisions set out in the Schedule; .

4

In regulations 3(2) and 10(1)(c) for “Community legislation” in each place where it occurs substitute “EU legislation”.

5

In regulation 8(1) there shall be omitted:

• or such a date specified by the European Commission

6

At the end of the Regulations there shall be inserted the Schedule set out in the Schedule to these Regulations.

SCHEDULE

Signed

Sealed with the Official Seal of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development on 21st January 2011.

Liam McKibben — A senior officer of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Order)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations amend the Biomass Processing Challenge Fund Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2010 (‘the principal Regulations’) to correct certain drafting errors.

A new definition of “EU legislation” is inserted and refers to a list of EU legislation set out in a new Schedule. This identifies the relevant EU legislation in accordance with which payments under Regulations must be made.

Superfluous definitions of some of that EU legislation are revoked.

The Regulations also amend Regulation 8 of the principal Regulations to remove the power of the European Commission to specify a different date to the one referred to therein as the date until which beneficiaries are required to keep records.

Footnotes

[^f00002]: 1972 c 68

[^f00003]: S.R. 2010 No.217