Extensification Payment (Scotland) Regulations 2002 (S.S.I. No. 278 of 2002).

These Regulations lay down, in relation to holdings in respect of which the Scottish Ministers are the competent authority for IACS purposes, implementing measures for the extensification payment scheme introduced by Article 13 of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1254/1999 on the common organization of the market in beef and veal for beef producers who comply with certain stocking density requirements. The rules relating to administration provide for the two Community methods of checking stocking density (regs. 4 and 5), require producers to supply information in support of their claims (reg. 6), define "pasture land" for the purposes of the scheme (reg. 7), provide for withholding or recovery of extensification payments where there is a breach of the rules of the scheme (regulation 8) and provide for the relevant rate of interest on payments due (reg. 9). The enforcement provisions confer powers of entry and inspection on and permit collection of evidence by authorized persons (regs. 10 to 13).