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Suckler Cow Premium Scheme
11/06/2002
Suckler cow producers in Scotland will soon be able to
register transfers and leases of quota to cover claims
under the 2002 Suckler Cow Premium Scheme.
The notification period opens on Monday 17 June and will
run until Friday 6 December 2002 enabling producers to
obtain quota or dispose of any surplus quota for the 2002
Suckler Cow Premium Scheme which opens for premium
applications on 1 July.
Producers will be able to notify transfers and leases of
quota to the Department up until the date that the
Department receives a premium claim from the recipient of
the quota but this must be no later than the last day of
the premium application period (6 December 2002). Producers
wishing to acquire quota must remember not to submit their
premium claim until after they have notified their quota
transfer or lease.
Producers with more than seven units of quota should
note that they must use at least 90 per centof their
suckler cow quota in the 2002 scheme year otherwise the
unused part will be withdrawn without compensation.
However, producers with seven or fewer units of quota must
use 90 per centof their quota every other year if they wish
to avoid having quota withdrawn. To use quota in this
context means either to claim premium on it or to lease it
out.
Notification forms and explanatory leaflets for the
transfer and lease of suckler cow quota for the 2002 Scheme
year will be available at the Department's local area
offices from 17 June. If producers wish to take advantage
of these arrangements, it is their responsibility to obtain
the form, complete it correctly and return it to the
Department by the due date.
Notification forms SCP-Transfer-2002 for notifying
transfers of quota and SCP-Lease-2002 for the temporary
leasing of quota and an Explanatory Leaflet will be
available from Scottish Executive Environment and Rural
Affairs Department local area offices from 17 June.
Producers may not dispose of quota by transfer or lease
in the 2002 notification period if they received quota from
the national reserve with effect from the 2001 or 2002
Scheme years.
It is the responsibility of the producers selling or
leasing out quota to ensure that they have sufficient quota
at their disposal to allow the transaction to take place.
If for example they have not used all their quota in
previous years, they should satisfy themselves that they
will not be subject to a withdrawal of quota with effect
from 2002 under the usage rules. This could lead to the
transfer or lease being rejected.
Separate but similar arrangements are being made in
England, Wales and Northern Ireland.