Dairy Produce Quotas (Amendment) (England) (No. 2) Regulations 2000 (S.I. No. 2977 of 2000).

The principal changes made by these Regulations are: (a) extend the definition of "Community compensation scheme"; (b) remove Islay from the particular milk-quota arrangements applying in relation to the Scottish Islands (reg. 3(b)) and clarify the extent and application of those arrangements (reg.4); (c) extend the period within which purchasers shall notify the Intervention Board of any producer's newly registering with them (reg. 5(a)(ii)); (d) by way of new regulation 6(4A) of the principal Regulations, make clear who, as between an original purchaser and a new purchaser of a producer's milk, is permitted to apply for adjustments to his quota consequent upon subsequent changes to the representative fat content of that producer's milk (reg. 5(c)); (e) remove the requirement which applied in the case of a transfer of quota made without there also being a transfer of land that, after the transfer has been approved by the Intervention Board, the transferee furnish the Board with a statement of used and unused quota available both to him and to the transferor on the date of transfer (reg. 6(c)); (f) extend the Intervention Board's ability to release a transferee from his undertaking, so that the power applies not only where exceptional circumstances result in a significant fall in milk production, but also where they result in a significant failure to achieve a planned increase in milk production (reg. 6(d)); etc.