Agricultural Products Processing and Marketing (Improvement Grant) Regulations 1977

UK Statutory Instrument 1977 No. 2112 — creates 1 criminal offence.

Made

15 December 1977

In force from

16 December 1977

Extent

Not stated

Subject

Agriculture, plant health, food production and rural affairs

Made under

European Communities Act 1972

Explanatory note

(This note is not part of the Regulations) — published with the instrument by the department that made it. © Crown copyright, reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.

These regulations apply throughout the United Kingdom and supplement Regulation (EEC) No. 355/77 of the Council on common measures to improve the conditions under which agricultural products are processed and marketed. The Council Regulation empowers the Commission (subject, in specified circumstances, to the decision of the Council) to grant to projects aid from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund conditional upon financial contribution by the Member States on the territory of which the projects are to be carried out. Article 6.1 of the Council Regulation in the English edition of the Official Journal defines “project” as:— any project involving public, semi-public or private material investment relating wholly or in part to buildings and/or equipment for: a rationalizing or developing storage, market preparation, preservation, treatment or processing of agricultural products; b improving marketing channels; c better knowledge of the facts relating to prices and to their formation on the markets for agricultural products. To enable United Kingdom projects to receive aid which has been authorised under the Council Regulation, these regulations empower Minister to make grants towards approved expenditure for the purposes of those projects (regulation 3). Where the expenditure approved for Community aid has been approved for the purposes of any other grant out of United Kingdom public funds, only such grant is payable under these regulations as is necessary to enable the project to receive the Community aid. Otherwise the amount of grant under these regulations is restricted to a maximum of 8 per cent. of that expenditure (regulation 4). In specified circumstances, approval of expenditure may be revoked and grant may be recovered (regulation 5). A penalty is prescribed in respect of false statements made to obtain grant (regulation 6).

Offences created by this instrument

• False statements regulation 6 · Status not determined · Requires proof of a state of mind

What Parliament said about it

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• Agricultural Products Processing And Marketing (Improvement Grant) Regulations 1977 Lords · Lords Chamber · 13 December 1977 · Lord STRABOLGI

  rose to move, That the draft Agricultural Products Processing and Marketing (Improvement Grant) Regulations 1977, laid before the House on 10th November, be approved. The noble Lord said: My Lords, these regulations, which will apply throughout the United Kingdom, are closely linked with a recently-adopted EEC regulation and it may help if I first say a few words about that. In February this year, the Council of Ministers agreed Regulation No. 355/77 designed to achieve improvements in the processing and marketing of agricultural products. This new regulation will largely replace an earlier…

• Agricultural Products Processing And Marketing (Improvement Grant) Regulations 1977 Lords · Lords Chamber · 13 December 1977

  Moved, That the draft Agricultural Products Processing and Marketing, (Improvement Grant) Regulations 1977, laid before the House on 10th November, be approved.—(Lord Strabolgi.)

• Agricultural Products Processing And Marketing (Improvement Grant) Regulations 1977 Lords · Lords Chamber · 13 December 1977
• Marine Fish Farming (Financial Assistance) Scheme 1981 Lords · Lords Chamber · 17 December 1981 · Lord Sandys

  My Lords, we have had a useful debate, and I should like to emphasise that the purpose of this scheme is to ensure that marine fish farmers should be able to qualify for FEOGA assistance under the interim aid scheme. We have broken some new ground in introducing this scheme, and I would certainly agree with the noble Lord, Lord Vernon, that the House and indeed the industry as a whole owe a debt of gratitude to the late Lady Emmet of Amberley for the interest she took and for the way she inspired your Lordships in this particular direction over a period of years. The noble Lord, Lord…

• Agricultural Products Processing And Marketing (Improvement Grant) (Amendment) Regulations 1983 Lords · Lords Chamber · 14 April 1983 · Earl Ferrers

  My Lords, I beg to move that the Agricultural Products Processing and Marketing (Improvement Grant) (Amendment) Regulations 1983 be approved. These regulations are very short and make only one minor amendment to the principal regulations; namely the Agricultural Products Processing and Marketing (Improvement Grant) Regulations 1977 (SI No. 2112). They will extend for two years on an unchanged basis the existing arrangements whereby United Kingdom projects which qualify for a European Community grant under Regulation 355/77 have the necessary qualifying national grant. There are certain…

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