§ Mr. LlwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales when the Welsh Office made known the necessity of completion of the integrated administration and control system forms to Welsh farmers and the farming unions.
§ Mr. David HuntFollowing the publication in December of the Commission regulations on the integrated administration and control system, Agriculture Departments issued a joint press notice on 13 January announcing further details of the claim procedures for arable aid payments. In the same notice, we alerted livestock producers to the fact that they, too, would need to comply with the general arrangements relating to IACS.
§ Mr. LlwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales on what day the European Community directive for the preparation of integrated administration and control system forms was communicated to the Welsh Office.
§ Mr. David HuntThe governing Commission regulations were published in theOfficial Journal of the European Communities on 31 December 1992.
§ Mr. LlwydTo ask the Secretary of State for Wales when the Welsh Office made known to Welsh farmers and the farming unions that the integrated administration and control system forms should be completed using black ink; and when that requirement was communicated to the Welsh Office by the European Commission.
§ Mr. David HuntThe explanatory booklet on the integrated administration and control system, available from 2 April, advises farmers to make copies of the forms they submit and, therefore, recommends that they are completed clearly and in black ink in order to make photocopying easier.