
1 

(1) This Order, which extends to England and Wales only, may be cited as the Sugar Beet (Research and Education) Order 1998 and shall come into force on 1st April 1998.
(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 1998–99” means the year beginning 1st April 1998.
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 1998–99, 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 1998–99, 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 12.0p 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 12.0p 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 1998–99 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 1999.
(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.
Donoughue
Parliamentary Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
18th February 1998Signed by authority of the Secretary of State for Wales
Win Griffiths
Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Welsh Office
27th February 1998
SCHEDULE
Article 1(2)
PART I

 £ £
A. RESEARCH

1 
Agronomy, physiology, nutrition, trials, pest and disease control, crop improvement: Broom’s Barn Experimental Station 1,008,463

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. 339,391

3 
Variety Trials: National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge 144,641

4 
Beet physiology, aphid investigations, statistical techniques: Rothamsted Experimental Station 154,577

5 
Precision farming, mechanical methods of weed control: Silsoe Research International 37,537

6 
Handling and interpreting data from electronic sugar beet, reducing sugar losses in storage: ADAS Silsoe 31,882

7 
Nitrogen and heavy metals in pig manure: ADAS Terrington 6,090

8 
Potassium in farm manures: ADAS Gleadthorpe 20,367

9 
Chitin control of pests and diseases: ADAS High Mowthorpe 10,102

10 
Reducing post harvest sugar losses from bruising: Harper Adams Agricultural College 8,000

11 
Research project evaluation 35,000
  1,796,050
B. EDUCATION

1 
Broom’s Barn Experimental Station 89,682

2 
British Sugar p.l.c. 170,551

3 
National Institute of Agricultural Botany, Cambridge 3,473

4 
ADAS Guildford 6,000
  269,706
  2,065,756
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 10,609

(b) Other 5,305
  15,914

2 
Administrative charges:
(a) Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food 22,544

(b) National Audit Office 3,500

(c) National Debt Office, National Investment and Loans Office 6,000
  32,044

3 
Institut International de Recherches Betteravieres (IIRB):
Subscriptions 16,656
Less, recoverable subscriptions 2,971
  13,685

4 
Contingencies  31,015
 b/f from Part I 2,065,756
Estimate of expenditure to be incurred in carrying out the programme  2,158,414