The Common Agricultural Policy (Competent Authority and Coordinating Body) Regulations 2014

Made: 8th December 2014

Laid before Parliament: 11th December 2014

Coming into force: 1st January 2015

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Citation, commencement and interpretation

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Competent authority

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Coordinating body

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Review

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Revocation

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Signed

George Eustice — Parliamentary Under Secretary of State — Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs — 2014-12-08

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations)

EXPLANATORY NOTE

These Regulations provide for the administration in the United Kingdom of certain provisions of Regulation (EU) No. 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy (OJ No. L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 549) and two other associated EU Regulations referred to in regulation 1(2).

Regulations 2 and 3 prescribe that in respect of the common agricultural policy the Ministers (that is, the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, the Scottish Ministers, the Welsh Ministers and the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development in Northern Ireland), acting jointly, are to—

• (a) exercise the functions of the competent authority with responsibilities for and relating to the accreditation of paying agencies; the designation and accreditation of the coordinating body; the designation of any certification body and the nomination of the body in charge of setting up and maintaining a single website containing information relating to the beneficiaries of Common Agricultural Policy funds; and

• (b) exercise the functions of the coordinating body which is assigned tasks relating to collecting and supplying information to the European Commission, coordinating the resolution of any common deficiencies and the harmonised application of EU rules between paying agencies.

Regulation 4 requires the Secretary of State to review the operation and effect of these Regulations and publish a report within five years after 1st January 2015 and within every five years after that.

No impact assessment has been produced for this instrument as no impact on the private or voluntary sector is foreseen.

Footnotes

[^f00001]: 1972 c. 68. Section 2(2) was amended by section 27(1)(a) of the Legislative and Regulatory Reform Act 2006 (c. 51) and Part 1 of the Schedule to the European Union (Amendment) Act 2008 (c. 7). The function of the former Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of making regulations under section 2(2) was transferred to the Secretary of State by article 2(2) of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (Dissolution) Order 2002 (S.I. 2002/794).

[^f00002]: S.I. 1972/1811, to which there are amendments not relevant to these Regulations. The power of the Secretary of State to make regulations that extend to Scotland and Northern Ireland and apply in Wales remains exercisable by virtue of section 57(1) of the Scotland Act 1998 (c. 46), article 3(2) of the European Communities (Designation) (No. 3) Order 2000 (S.I. 2000/2812) and article 6 of the European Communities (Designation) (No. 5) Order 2010 (S.I. 2010/2690), respectively.

[^f00003]: OJ No. L 255, 28.8.2014, p. 18.

[^f00004]: OJ No. L 255, 28.8.2014, p. 59.

[^f00005]: OJ No. L 347, 20.12.2013, p.549, as last amended by Regulation (EU) No. 1310/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (OJ No. L. 347, 20.12.2013, p. 865).

[^f00006]: S.I. 2001/3020.

Editorial notes

[^key-e750b93f837b18770c49f7137742931e]: Regulations revoked (31.12.2020) by The Common Agricultural Policy and Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I. 2019/733), regs. 1, 6 (with savings in reg. 9 (as inserted by The Agriculture (Payments) (Amendment, etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (S.I. 2020/1445), regs. 1(2)(a), 11(4))); 2020 c. 1, Sch. 5 para. 1(1)