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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3087/88
of 6 October 1988
amending Regulation (EEC) No 2083/80 laying down detailed rules of application concerning the economic activity of producer groups and associations thereof
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1360/78 of 19 June 1978 on producer groups and associations thereof (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1760/87 (2), and in particular the second indent of Article 6 (3) thereof,
Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2083/80 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2777/88 (4), must be supplemented in order to take account of the amendments made to Regulation (EEC) No 1360/78 by Regulation (EEC) No 1760/87; whereas the experience gained in implementing this common measures has shown that a number of the rules must also be amended in the interests of more efficient application;
Whereas, in addition, Council Regulation (EEC) No 2658/87 (5), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1858/88 (6), instituted a combined goods nomenclature, based on the Harmonized Commodity Description and Coding System, to take effect from 1 January 1988; whereas the descriptions of goods and tariff codes appearing in Regulation (EEC) No 2083/80 must therefore be amended to conform with the Combined Nomenclature;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Agricultural Structure,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
Regulation (EEC) No 2083/80 is hereby amended as follows:
1. In Article 1 (1):
(i) the following subparagraph is inserted after the first subparagraph: 'In the Italian administrative regions in which average production is lower than the minimum volume of production or minimum turnover provided for in the Annex, the minimum volume of production and number of members required of a producer group shall be reduced by 50 %.'
(ii) in the last subparagraph, the words 'second subparagraph' are replaced by 'third subparagraph'.
2. Article 3 is replaced by the following:
'Article 3
1. For the purposes of Article 6 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1360/78, and without prejudice to paragraph 2, associations must account for a combined volume of production or turnover which:
(a) is at least three times the minimum size laid down for groups in the region in which they are registered;
(b) is no lower than 5 % of national production or, in the case of France, no lower than 5 % of:
- either the production of the metropolitan regions covered by Regulation (EEC) No 1360/78,
- or the production of a given overseas department.
2. Notwithstanding paragraph 1 of this Article:
(a) in the case of Italy, associations must be composed of at least five recognized producer groups operating in five different administrative regions, this threshold being changed to:
- ten recognized producer groups active in five administrative regions for olive oil producers;
- four recognized producer groups active in two administrative regions for producers of tropical fruit, medicinal plants and rice;
- three recognized producer groups active in two administrative regions for producers of buffalo meat;
(b) in the case of France, associations must consist of at least five recognized producer groups operating in two departments. In the olive oil sector, associations must number at least 5 000 producers and produce at least 1 000 tonnes of oil; in the table wine and musts sector associations must consist of at least three recognized groups and number at least 600 members;
(c) in the case of Belgium, associations must comply with the minimum requirements as regards area cultivated, turnover, share of national production and number of recognized producer groups laid down in point 1b of the Annex, and must cover at least one province;
(d) in the case of Greece, associations must comply with the minimum requirements as regards area cultivated (or equivalent), turnover, share of national production and number of recognized producer groups laid down in point II of the Annex. For products not listed in the Annex, associations must consist of at least three recognized gruoups. The minimum area covered by the associations must be at least ten communes situated within a homogeneous area;
(e) in the case of Spain, associations must comply with the minimum requirements as regards area cultivated, turnover and share of national production laid down in point III of the Annex. Both for products listed in the Annex and for other products, associations must consist of at least five recognized groups and cover at least the area of one autonomous community;
(f) in the case of Portugal, associations must comply with the minimum requirements as regards area cultivated, turnover, share of national production and number of recognized producer groups laid down in point IV of the Annex. For products not listed in the Annex, associations must consist of at three recognized groups and cover at least the area of one district.'
3. Points I and II of the Annex are replaced by those in points I, Ia, Ib and II in the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 6 October 1988.