
1 

(1) This Order, which extends to England and Wales only, may be cited as the Sugar Beet (Research and Education) Order 1997 and shall come into force on 1st April 1997.
(2) In this Order—
 “adjusted beet tonne” has the same meaning as in the interprofessional agreement made on 3rd October 1983, as re-issued (with amendments) in June 1995, between British Sugar p.l.c. of the one part and the National Farmers’ Union of the other part;
 “the Ministers” means the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food and the Secretary of State, acting jointly;
 “processor” means a processor of home-grown beet;
 “the programme” means the programme set out in the Schedule to this Order; and
 “the year 1997–98” means the year beginning 1st April 1997.
2 
For the purposes of carrying the programme into effect, contributions towards defraying the amount of expenditure, estimated in the programme to be incurred in carrying it out, to be made by every processor and by every grower of home-grown beet who delivers beet to a processor in the year 1997–98, shall be assessed and shall be collected and recovered as respectively provided in articles 3 and 4 below.
3 
The contributions from every processor and from every grower of home-grown beet who delivers beet to a processor during the year 1997–98, towards defraying the expenditure to be incurred in carrying out the programme for that year, shall be assessed as follows:—
(a) in the case of any grower of home-grown beet, the contribution shall be at the rate of 11.0p for every adjusted beet tonne of home-grown beet sold by him for delivery to a processor in that year;
(b) in the case of any processor, the contribution shall be at the rate of 11.0p for every adjusted beet tonne of home-grown beet purchased by the processor in that year.
4 

(1) All contracts made between any processor and any grower for the sale of home-grown beet for delivery to the processor during the year 1997–98 shall provide that the amount of the grower’s contribution assessed in accordance with paragraph (a) of article 3 of this Order shall be payable by the grower to the processor out of any sums standing to the credit of that grower in account with the processor and be deducted by the processor from the amount payable to the grower.
(2) The processor shall pay the proceeds, together with the amount of the processor’s contribution assessed in accordance with paragraph (b) of article 3 of this Order, to the Ministers on or before 30th April 1998.
(3) The amount of any contribution which has not been paid to the Ministers by the date on which it has become due for payment shall be recoverable by them.
Tim Boswell
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
21st February 1997Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
Jonathan Evans
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
24th February 1997
SCHEDULE
Article 1(2)
PART I

 £ £
A. RESEARCH
1. Agronomy, physiology, nutrition, trials, pest and disease control: Broom’s Barn Experimental Station 1,076,463
2. Crop production and agronomy, variety assessments and trials, machinery development, precision farming, physiology, new chemistry, quantifying beet damage, beet handling: British Sugar p.l.c. 359,732
3. Evaluation of new products: Morley Research Centre 11,024
4. Variety Trials: National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge 140,428
5. Beet physiology, aphid investigations: Rothamsted Experimental Station 122,359
6. Precision farming: Silsoe Research International 17,186
7. Electronic sugar beet location, reducing sugar losses in storage: ADAS Silsoe 32,089
8. Nitrogen and heavy metals in pig manure: ADAS Terrington 1,505
9. Potassium in farm manures: ADAS Soil & Water Research Centre, Anstey Hall 22,952
10. Chitin control in pests and diseases: ADAS High Mowthorpe 8,507
11. Research projection evaluation 35,000
  1,827,245
B. EDUCATION
1. Broom’s Barn Experimental Station 72,095
2. British Sugar p.l.c. 169,835
3. National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge 5,991
4. ADAS Guildford 12,000
5. Morley Research Centre 23,681
  283,602
  2,110,847
PART II

 £ £

1 
Attendance fees and expenses of members and officers of the Sugar Beet Research and Education Committee and its sub-committees:
(a) Great Britain 10,300

(b) Other 5,150
  15,450

2 
Administrative charges:
(a) Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 21,887

(b) National Audit Office 3,500

(c) National Debt Office, National Investment and Loans Office 8,500
  33,887

3 
Institut International de Recherches Betteravieres (IIRB): Subscriptions 16,171
Less: recoverable subscriptions 2,884
  13,287

4 
Contingencies  6,764
b/f from Part I  2,110,847
Estimate of expenditure to be incurred in carrying out the programme  2,180,235