Common Agricultural Policy Support Schemes (Modulation) Regulations 2000 (S.I. of 3127 of 2000).

Article 4 of Council Regulation No. 1259 permits member States to reduce the amounts of payments under the support schemes listed in the Annex to that Regulation where 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. These Regulations accordingly require the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food or, as the case may be, the Intervention Board to deduct a specified proportion from any payment he (or it) makes pursuant to any of the said support schemes, the amounts thus deducted to be applied in accordance with article 5(2) (reg. 4).