The Hill Farm Allowance Regulations 2005

includes horticulture, fruit growing, seed growing, dairy farming and livestock breeding and keeping, the use of land as grazing land, meadow land, osier land, market gardens and nursery grounds, and the use of land for woodlands where that use is ancillary to the use of land for other agricultural purposes;

means an area aid application submitted in 2004 in accordance with Article 6 of Council Regulation 3508/92 and Titles I and II of Commission Regulation 2419/2001. • “claimant” means any person who has made a claim for hill farm allowance and “claim” shall be construed accordingly;

means any person who has made a claim for hill farm allowance and “claim” shall be construed accordingly;

means land which has been entered as forage area in an area aid application;

means Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2316/1999 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1251/1999;

means Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2342/1999 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1254/1999 on the common organisation of the market in beef and veal as regards premium schemes;

means Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2419/2001 laying down detailed rules for applying the integrated administration and control system for certain Community aid schemes established by Council Regulation (EEC) No 3508/92 • “common land” means any land which is registered as common land with grazing rights under the Commons Registration Act 1965;

means any land which is registered as common land with grazing rights under the Commons Registration Act 1965;

means any payment made under these Regulations, the Hill Farm Allowance Regulations 2004, the Hill Farm Allowance Regulations 2003, the Hill Farm Allowance Regulations 2002, the Hill Farm Allowance Regulations 2001, the Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) Regulations 1999, the Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) Regulations 1996 or the Hill Livestock (Compensatory Allowances) Regulations 1994;

means Council Regulation (EC) No. 1254/1999 on the common organisation of the market in beef and veal;

means Council Regulation (EC) No. 1257/1999 on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) and amending and repealing certain Regulations;

means Council Regulation (EEC) No. 2092/91 on organic production of agricultural products and indications referring thereto on agricultural products and foodstuffs;

means Council Regulation (EEC) No. 3508/92 establishing an integrated administration and control system for certain Community aid schemes;

(except in the expression “severely disadvantaged land”) means any area of land shown coloured blue on the England LFA maps;

means such part of the qualifying forage area as lies within a less favoured area;

means a female sheep which is at least one year old on 1st January 2005, or has lambed by that date;

has the same meaning as in Article 12(2)(b) of Council Regulation 1254/1999;

has the same meaning as in Article 3 of Council Regulation 1254/1999;

means the compensatory allowance payable in accordance with these Regulations and with Chapter V of Title II of Council Regulation 1257/1999;

has the same meaning as in Article 1 of Council Regulation 3508/92;

has the same meaning as in Article 31 of Commission Regulation 2342/1999;

means any area of land shown coloured blue or pink on the England LFA maps;

means a unit of measurement of livestock numbers, and each of the following constitutes a single livestock unit— (a) one suckler cow;

means all the land which is shown as a less favoured area on the England LFA maps and which is also shown coloured pink in the three volumes of maps entitled “Moorland Map of England 1992” each volume being marked with the number of the volume, dated 20th February 2001, signed on behalf of the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and deposited at the offices of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs at Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR;

means the number of livestock units per hectare of the claimant’s eligible forage area, calculated in accordance with Schedule 1. • “organic farmer” means a claimant who— (a) throughout 2004— (a) produced, with a view to subsequent marketing, livestock and unprocessed livestock products as referred to in Article 1(1)(a) of Council Regulation 2092/91;

means a claimant who— (a) throughout 2004— (a) produced, with a view to subsequent marketing, livestock and unprocessed livestock products as referred to in Article 1(1)(a) of Council Regulation 2092/91;

means the Scottish Ministers, the National Assembly for Wales or, in Northern Ireland, the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development;

has the meaning specified in Article 2(1) of, and Annex I to, Commission Regulation 2316/1999;

means the relevant forage area or, in relation to a claimant to whom regulation 8 applies, such part of the relevant forage area as results from the deductions made to the relevant forage area in accordance with that regulation;

means, in relation to a claimant, all that claimed forage area, excluding any less favoured area, in respect of which the Secretary of State has been advised by any other competent authority that the claimant is eligible for a related less favoured area allowance;

means— (a) in relation to Northern Ireland, the Less Favoured Area Compensatory Allowance;

means, in relation to a claimant, the suckler cows, heifers and ewes in respect of which the claimant was paid suckler cow premium or sheep annual premium in 2004;

means any claimed forage area situated in England;

means any area of land shown coloured pink on the England LFA maps;

means the premium payable under the Sheep Annual Premium Regulations 1992;

has the same meaning as in Article 3 of Council Regulation 1254/1999;

means the premium payable under the Suckler Cow Premium Regulations 2001.

means the three volumes of maps numbered 1 to 3, each volume being marked “Volume of maps of less favoured farming areas in England”, dated 20th May 1991, signed and sealed by the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and deposited at the offices of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs at Nobel House, 17 Smith Square, London SW1P 3JR;