The person named submitted an application for consideration under the ‘new entrant' and ‘inheritance' measures of the single payment scheme. That application has been fully processed and the person named has been successful in respect of both measures. However, in this case the 'new entrant' measure is the financially more beneficial to the person named. A letter advising him that the year 2000 will be excluded from the calculation of his single payment entitlement will issue this week and a statement of provisional entitlements reflecting this position will issue shortly.
Applications to the 2005 single payment national reserve are being processed and in view of the number of applications received and accompanying documentation submitted, it will be some time before processing is completed. Given that the person named has received the benefit of the 'new entrant' measure applicable to farmers who commenced farming during the reference period, 2000 to 2002, he will not be allocated any entitlement from the national reserve under the new entrant category applicable to farmers who commenced farming after 31 December 2002. Furthermore, it is unlikely that he will receive any allocation from the national reserve unless he made an appropriate investment for which he has not already received any benefit under the new entrant measure.