This Order may be cited as the Home-Grown Cereals Authority (Rate of Levy) Order 2003 and shall come into force on 1st July 2003.

In this Order expressions have the same meaning as they have in the Schemes.

(1)    For the relevant year the rates of levy per tonne of cereals delivered which appears to the Secretary of State and the National Assembly to be sufficient (but not more than sufficient) to meet the amount apportioned to each kind of cereal shall in each case be—

(a)    50.8775 pence in respect of dealer levy,

(b)    47 pence in respect of grower levy,

(c)    9.69375 pence in respect of standard rate processor levy, and

(d)    4.7 pence in respect of reduced rate processor levy.

(2)    For the relevant year the rate of levy per tonne of oilseeds delivered which appears to the Secretary of State and the National Assembly to be sufficient (but not more than sufficient) to meet the amount apportioned to each kind of oilseed shall in each case be 76.375 pence.

Whitty

Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State,

Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

10th June 2003

Signed on behalf of the National Assembly for Wales

D Elis-Thomas

Presiding Officer

10th June 2003

We consent

Ross Finnie

A member of the Scottish Executive

29th May 2003

We consent

D Small

Northern Ireland Department of Agriculture and Rural Development

22nd May 2003

For the purposes of financing the Home-Grown Cereals Authority's non-trading functions under Part I of the Cereals Marketing Act 1965 for the year beginning on 1st July 2003, this Order specifies the rates of dealer levy, grower levy and processor levies which appear to the Secretary of State for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs and the National Assembly for Wales to be sufficient to meet the amount apportioned to certain cereals grown in the United Kingdom, namely, wheat (including durum wheat), barley, oats, rye, maize, triticale, or any two or more such cereals grown as one crop, and the rate of levy which appears to them to be sufficient to meet the amount apportioned to certain oilseeds grown in the United Kingdom, namely rapeseed, linseed, soyabean, sunflowerseed or any two or more of such oilseeds grown as one crop.

Levy will be imposed in accordance with the provisions of the Home-Grown Cereals Authority Cereals Levy Scheme 1987 (as varied) and the Home-Grown Cereals Authority Oilseeds Levy Scheme 1990, both of which are schemes in force under section 16 of the Act.

The Order comes into force on 1st July 2003.

No Regulatory Impact Assessment has been prepared in respect of this Order.