§ Mr. KeyTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs if she will extend the deadline of 17 May for completion by farmers of integrated administration and control system forms. [167608]
§ Alun MichaelA deadline of 15 May for the submission of the Integrated Administration and Control System forms is set out in Article 8(2) of Council Regulation 1251/1999.
Where a submission deadline falls on a public holiday or a weekend there is provision within Article 6(2) of Council Regulation 3508/1992 as amended by 1593/ 2000 for the deadline to be amended to fall on the first working day following. Therefore, as 15 May 2004 falls on a Saturday the deadline for submission has been set as 17 May.
There is no further scope within the regulations to extend the deadline beyond 17 May.
§ Mr. KeyTo ask the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs for what reason this year's integrated administration and control system forms have had to be reprinted; and when they will be posted to farmers. [167609]
§ Alun MichaelThis year's Integrated Administration and Control System (IACS) forms have not had to be reprinted.
All IACS forms were dispatched in early April and the Rural Payments Agency (RPA) believes that they should all by now have been delivered to producers. However, the RPA has advised via an advertisement placed in the farming press and on its website that where forms have not been received producers should contact their RPA processing site.