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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2385/91
of 6 August 1991
laying down detailed rules for certain special cases regarding the definition of sheepmeat and
goatmeat producers and producer groups
(OJ No L 219, 7. 8. 1991, p. 15)
Amended by:
Official Journal
No page date
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2425/91 of 8 August 1991 L 221 27 9. 8. 1991
Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3676/91 of 17 December 1991 L 349 14 18. 12. 1991Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2564/92 of 2 September 1992 L 257 12 3. 9. 1992Commission Regulation (EC) No 609/94 of 18 March 1994 L 77 10 19. 3. 1994Commission Regulation (EC) No 826/94 of 13 April 1994 L 95 8 14. 4. 1994Commission Regulation (EC) No 2569/95 of 31 October 1995 L 262 32 1. 11. 1995Commission Regulation (EC) No 2143/96 of 7 November 1996 L 286 10 8. 11. 1996
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ICOMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2385/91
of 6 August 1991
laying down detailed rules for certain special cases regarding the definition of sheepmeat and
goatmeat producers and producer groups
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the T reaty establishing the EuropeanEconomic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89
of 25 September 1989 on the common organization of the
market in sheepmeat and goatmeat (
1), as last amended by
Regulation (EEC) No 1741/91 (2), and in particular Ar-
ticle 5 (9) thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3493/90
of 27 November 1990 laying down general rules for the
grant of premiums to sheepmeat and goatmeat pro-
ducers (3), and in particular Articles 1 and 2 (4),
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 3493/90 establishes, in par-
ticular, the definitions of sheepmeat and/or goatmeat pro-
ducer and producer group; whereas, furthermore, that Re-
gulation lays down that the Commission, acting in
accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 30 of
Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89, is to lay down detailed
rules for the application of those definitions and in particu-
lar special cases arising from contractual forms provided
for in agricultural law or covered by national customs and
practices under which the farmer, while assuming the risks
and/or organization of the rearing, is not the owner of all
or part of the flock, and detailed rules for the application
of the limits provided for in Article 5 (7) of Regulation
(EEC) No 3013/89 concerning producer groups;
Whereas, as regards the abovementioned contractual
forms, provisions should be laid down in particular to
cover cases of shared ownership, livestock lease and plac-
ing of ewes in agistment and certain situations where the
shepherd of a flock is also owner of part of the latter;
whereas, however, as regards livestock leases, special provi-
sions must be laid down in the United Kingdom for the
National T rust where it is the lessor in the Lake District
area, since the said lessor imposes particularly strict condi-
tions on lessees in order to ensure that the environment is
protected;
Whereas the limits provided for in Article 5 (7) of Regula-
tion (EEC) No 3013/89 may, in the case of producer
groups, be applied correctly using a single premium declar-
ation signed by all the members and by means of certainprovisions on penalties intended to ensure that the group
assumes liability for declarations submitted;
(1) OJ No L 289, 7. 10. 1989, p. 1.
(2) OJ No L 163, 26. 6. 1991, p. 41.
(3) OJ No L 337, 4. 12. 1990, p. 7.
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IIWhereas, for the purposes of applying the abovementioned
limits, rules should also be laid down for apportioning live-
stock in the case of groups where the animals belonging to
each member cannot be identified; whereas the formula
for apportionment applicable, in the case of disbanding, to
the group’s assets is suitable for the purpose;
Whereas, in order to prevent the limits in question from
being circumvented, the concept of group should exclude
any form of association featuring a lack of independence
of or real participation by the members;
Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 3493/90 lays down the
conditions under which farmers practising transhumance
are to be considered producers in less-favoured areas;
whereas that Regulation lays down in particular that, to
that end, on farmers whose holdings are located in geo-
graphical areas to be determined according to certain cri-
teria and in accordance with the procedure provided for inArticle 30 of Regulation (EEC) No 3013/89 are to be
taken into account; whereas those criteria lead to the de-
termination of the areas given in the Annex hereto;
Whereas the Management Committee for Sheep and Goats
has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by
its chairman,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
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1Article 1
1. Save as otherwise provided for in paragraph 4, in
cases other than those referred to in Article 2 (1) where
ownership of a flock of sheep and/or goats on the same
farm is shared between two or more natural or legal per-
sons, the producer within the meaning of point 1 of Article
1 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3439/90 shall be deemed to
be the person who has the greatest share of the sale of
products from the flock in question.
2. Where the owner of a flock of sheep and/or goats
places the flock in agistment, the farmer in question shall
remain the producer within the meaning of point 1 of Ar-
ticle 1 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3493/90. He shall
identify the agister’s holding in his premium application.
3. Where a flock of ewes and/or she-goats is held, in
part or in whole, under a livestock lease and the lesseereceives the product of the sale of the livestock products,
the lessee shall be deemed to be the producer, with regard
to the part in question, within the meaning of point 1 of
Article 1 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3493/90.
4. Where the shepherd of a flock of sheep and/or goats
is an employee of a producer within the meaning of point
1 of Article 1 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3493/90 and at
t h es a m et i m ei sh i m s e l fap r o d u c e rw i t h i nt h em e a n i n go f
the same Article with regard to a part of the flock, the
shepherd shall be jointly and severally liable with the other
producer where the penalties provided for in Commission
Regulation (EEC) No 3887/92 (4) are applied in the event
of the two parts of the flock not being identified separate-
ly.
The premium application submitted by each producer must
specify the employer-employee relationship and identify
the other producer.
Article 2
1. Where a premium application is submitted by a pro-
ducer group within the meaning of point 2 of Article 1 (1)
of Regulation (EEC) No 3493/90, the producer group
must submit a single premium application, which must be
signed by all the producers within the meaning of point 1
of the said Article; such producers shall remain subject to
the obligations imposed by Regulation (EEC) No 3007/84.
The premium shall be paid directly to the group.
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2The rules on penalties referred to in Article 10 of Regula-
tion (EEC) No 3887/92 shall apply to the group as such.
However, the penalty provided for in that Article in the
event of a false declaration intentionally made shall apply
to those members who, while remaining producers in the
following year, no longer form part of the group.
2. Premium applications must state the number of ani-mals brought to the group by each producer.
However, where the nature of the group is such thatownership of individual animals cannot be assigned to each
producer, the articles of association or the rules of pro-
cedure of the group must necessarily give a formula for
apportioning the sheep and/or goat flock between the vari-
ous producers concerned within the meaning of point 1 of
the first paragraph of Article 1 of Regulation (EEC)
No 3493/90.
That formula must correspond to the way the group’s
assets would be apportioned between the producer be-
tween the producer (SIC!) members were the group to be
disbanded and shall be notified to the competent authority.
This formula shall remain unaltered in subsequent market-
ing years unless the structure of the group which has been
notified to the authority comptent for granting the pre-
mium undergoes a substantial change; such a change shall
be the result of:
— new members joining or old members leaving, or
— a change of 10 % or more in the apportionment of the
members’ assets as a whole.
Annual premium applications must specify the number of
ewes attributed to each producer on the basis of the said
formula.
Article 3
1. The geographical areas referred to in the second in-
dent of Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No 3493/90
shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.
2. Premium applications submitted by producers the reg-
istered addresses of whose farms are in one of the areas
referred to in paragraph 1 and who wish to qualify under
the provisions of Article 2 (3) of Regulation (EEC) No
3493/90 must indicate:
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3— the period of at least 90 days referred to in the said
paragraph and laid down for the current marketing
year.
Notwithstanding Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 2700/93,documents containing information and the documents re-
ferred to in paragraph 3 relating to applications for the
1995 marketing year shall be submitted by farmers in Aus-
tria by 30 November 1995.
3. Premium applications from producers as referred to inparagraph 2 must be accompanied by documents certifying
that transhumance has actually been carried out, except in
cases of force majeure or duly justified natural circum-
stances, during two previous marketing years and in par-
ticular by an attestation from the local or regional author-
ity at the place of transhumance certifying that the latter
has actually taken place during at least 90 consecutive
days.
For the 1995 and 1996 marketing years, however, in the
case of Austria, the attestation that transhumance took
place during the previous two marketing years may be re-
placed by documents attesting that transhumance took
place during the 1995 marketing year.
Member States shall inform the Commission of the stepst a k e nw i t hr e g a r dt ot h ed e s i g n a t i o no ra p p r o v a lo ft h e
local authority competent to issue the attestations referred
to in the first subparagraph.
The attestations must state:
— the place of transhumance,
— the dates of the transhumant animals’ ‘arrival and de-
parture.
4. In order to facilitate checks, the authority receivingthe premium applicaitons shall notify the authority respon-
sible for verification of the place of transhumance.
5. The Member States shall monitor the application of
the provisions of this Article in accordance with the de-
tailed rules laid down in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No
3007/84. In addition, when carrying out administrative
checks on applications, they shall ensure that the place of
transhumance specified in the premium application is
actually within one of the areas defined in Article 3 (3),
(4) and (5) of Council Directive 75/268/EEC (
1).
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46. Member States shall notify the Commission of the
premium applications as referred to in paragraph 2, re-
ceived for the current marketing year, broken down ac-
cording to the list of regions referred to in Article 3 (4) of
Regulation (EEC) No 3007/84 at the same time as the
communication required in that Article.
Article 4
Article 5
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5ANNEX
LIST OF GEOGRAPHICAL AREAS REFERRED TO IN THE SECOND INDENT OF ARTICLE 3 OF REGULATION
(EEC) No 3493/90
I. SPAIN
Comunidad autónoma Provincia Comarcas
Andalucía Almería No7: Campos Dalias
No8: Campos Níjar y Bajo Andárax
Cádiz —
Córdoba No3: Campiña Baja
Jaén No6: Campiña Sur
Granada No1: De la V ega
Huelva No3 Andevalo Oriental
Málaga No1: Nortes o Antequera
No3 : C e n t r ooG u a d a l a r c e
Sevilla No2: La V ega
No5: La Campina
Aragón Huesca No4: Hoya de Huesca
No6: Los Monegros
No7: La Litera
No8: Bajo Cinca
Ter u el —
Zaragoza No1: Egea de los Caballeros
No2: Borja
No5: Zaragoza
Asturias Asturias —
Baleares Baleares —
Cantabria Cantabria —
Castilla y León Ávila —
Burgos —
León No6: Tierras de León
Palencia No2: Campos
Salamanca No3: Salamanca
Segovia —
Soria —
Valladolid No2: Centro
Zamora No4: Campos -Pan
Castilla -La Mancha Albacete No4: Centro
Ciudad Real No2: Campos de Calatrava
No5: Pastos
Cuenca —
Guadalajara —
To l ed o No1: T alavera
Cataluña Barcelona No6: Anoia
No7: Bages
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6Comunidad autónoma Provincia Comarcas
No17: Garraf
No21: Maresme
No24: Osona
No40: V allès Occidental
No41: V allès Oriental
Girona No2: Alt Empordà
No10: Baix Empordà
No34: La Selva
Lleida No23: Noguera
No27: Pla d’Urgell
No33: Segrià
No38: Urgell
T arragona No1: Alt Camp
No9: Baix Ebre
No12: Baix Penedès
No29: Priorat
No36: T arragonès
Extremadura Badajoz No3: Don Benito
No6: Badajoz
Cáceres —
Galicia —
Madrid Madrid —
Murcia Murcia No4: Río Segura
No5: Suroeste y Valle de Guadalentín
Navarra Navarra No5: La Ribera
La Rioja La Rioja —
Valenciana Alicante —
Castellón Comarca No2—Bajo Maestrazgo
Valencia Comarca No3—Campos de Liria
Comarca No6—Sagunto
Comarca No8—Riberas del Júcar
País Vasco —
II. FRANCE
Provence-Alps-Côte d’Azur
The non-less-favoured areas in the departments of Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Alpes Maritimes, Var and Vaucluse, and the
whole of the department of Bouches-du-Rhône.
Rhône-Alps
The non-less-favoured areas in the departments of Ain, Ardèche, Drôme, Isère, Loire, Rhône, Savoie and Haute-Savoie.
Midi-PyrénéesThe non-less-favoured areas in the departments of Haute-Garonne, Hautes-Pyrénées and T arn-et-Garonne.
Aquitaine
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7Alsace
The non-less-favoured areas in the departments of Bas-Rhin and Haut-Rhin.
Lorraine
The non-less-favoured areas in the departments of Meurthe-et-Moselle, Moselle and the whole of the department of Meuse.Auvergne
The non-less-favoured areas in the departments of Allier and Puy-de-Dôme.
Languedoc-RoussillonThe non-less-favoured areas in the departments of Aude, Gard, Hérault and Eastern Pyrénées.
III. GREECE
Lowland areas from which animals are (by tradition) moved every year to mountain, hill and less-favoured areas, as specified
in Articles 3 (3), 4 and 5 of Directive 75/268/EEC.
Νομός Επαρχία
1.Νομός Λακωνίας Λακεδαίμονος ,Επιδαύρου ,Λιμήρας
2Νομός Ιωαννίνων Ιωαννίνων
3.Νομός Φωκίδος Παρνασσίδος ,∆ωρίδος
4.Νομός Πρέβεζας Νικοπόλεως
5.Νομός Κιλκίς Κιλκίς
6.Νομός Αττικής Μεγαρίδος ,Αττικής ,Πειραιώς
7.Νομός Αχαΐας Πατρών ,Αιγιαλείας
8.Νομός Αργολίδας Άργους ,Ναυπλίου
9.Νομός Βοιωτίας Λιβαδειάς ,Θήβας
10.Νομός Αρκαδίας Κοινουρίας ,Μαντινείας
11.Νομός Ημαθίας Νάουσας ,Βέροιας
12.Νομός Ηλείας Ηλείας ,Ολυμπίας
13.Νομός Μαγνησίας Βόλου ,Αλμυρού
14.Νομός Κορινθίας Κορινθίας
15.Νομός Ροδόπης Κομοτινής
16.Νομός Πέλλας Έδεσσας ,Αλμωπίας ,Γιαννιτσών
17.Νομός Φθιώτιδας Φθιώτιδος ,∆ομοκού ,Λοκρίδος
18.Νομός Χανίων Κυδωνίας ,Κισάμου ,Αποκορώνου
19.Νομός Ευβοίας Χαλκίδας ,Καριστίας ,Ιστιαίας
20.Νομός Αιτωλοακαρνανίας Μεσολογγίου ,Τριχωνίδας ,Βάλτου ,Ξηρομέρου ,Ναυπάκτου
21.Νομός Μεσσηνίας Τρι Ôυλίας ,Μεσσήνης ,Πυλίας
22.Νομός Τρικάλων Τρικάλων
23.Νομός Ρεθύμνης Ρεθύμνης
24.Νομός Πιερίας Πιερίας
25.Νομός ∆ράμας ∆ράμας
26.Νομός Άρτας Άρτας
27.Νομός Θεσσαλονίκης Θεσσαλονίκης ,Λαγκαδά
28.Νομός Θεσπρωτίας Θιάμιδος
29.Νομός Καρδίτσας Καρδίτσας ,ΣοÔάδων ,Παλαμά ,Μουζακίου
30.Νομός Καβάλας Καβάλας ,Παγγαίου
31..Νομός Λάρισας Λάρισας ,Φαρσάλων ,Αγιάς ,Ελασσώνας ,Τυρνάβου2385 /91
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8IV . GERMANY
Baden-Württemberg (in the following urban and rural districts):
Stuttgart (town) Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis
Böblingen Pforzheim (town)
Esslingen EnzkreisGöppingen CalwLudwigsburg Freudenstadt
Rems-Murr-Kreis Freiburg im Breisgau (town)
Heilbronn (town) Breisgau HochschwarzwaldHeilbronn Emmendingen
Hohenlohekreis Ortenaukreis
Schwäbisch Hall KonstanzMain- T auber-Kreis Lörrach
Heidenheim Waldshut
Ostalbkreis ReutlingenBaden-Baden (town) Tübingen
Rastatt Zollernalbkreis
Karlsruhe (town) Ulm (town)Karlsruhe Alb-Donau-Kreis
Heidelberg (town) Biberach
Mannheim (town) BodenseekreisSigmaringen RavensburgRhein-Neckar-Kreis
Bavaria (in the following urban and rural districts):
Alchach-Friedberg Lindau (west)
Altötting Main-Spessart (south)
Ansbach (zone north-west) Miesbach (zone north)
Aschaffenburg MiltenbergAugsburg Mühldorf
Bad Tölz-Wolfratshausen (zone north) Munich
Berchtesgadener Land (zone north) Neuburg-SchrobenhausenDachau Neustadt/Aisch — Bad Windsheim (west)
Deggendorf Neu Ulm
Dilligen Nürnberger Land (west)Dingolfing-Landau Ostallgäu (zone north)
Donau-Ries Passau (zone south-west)
Ebersberg PfaffenhofenEichstätt (south) RegensburgErding Rosenheim (zone north)
Erlangen (south) Rottal-Inn
Freising StarnbergFürstenfeldbruck Straubing-Bogen
Fürth Schweinfurt
Günzburg Traunstein (zone north)Kelheim Unterallgäu
Kitzingen Würzburg
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9Brandenburg (in the following urban and rural districts):
Prignitz Oder-Spree
Uckermark Oberhavel
Märkisch-Oderland Ostprignitz
Elbe-Elster Spree-NeißeDahme-Spreewald Potsdam-Mittelmark
Teltow-Fläming Oberspreewald-Lausitz
Hesse (in the following urban and rural districts):
Wetteraukreis Fulda
Gießen KasselMarburg-Biedenkopf Limburg-Weilburg
Lower Saxony (in the following urban and rural districts):
Gifhorn Hamelin
Göttingen Nienburg
Peine Schaumburg
Hanover UelzenHildesheim VerdenHolzminden
Lüneburg
Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania (in the following urban and rural districts):
Bad Doberan
Demmin
GüstrowLudwigslust
Mecklenburg-Strelitz
NordvorpommernNordwestmecklenburg
Ostvorpommern
ParchimUecker-Randow
Rhineland-Palatinate (in the following rural districts and towns):
Koblenz Ludwigshafen (town and rural district)
Ahrweiler Mainz
Bad Kreuznach Neustadt a.d.W.Cochem-Zell SpeyerMayen-Koblenz Worms
Neuwied Zweibrücken
Rhein-Lahn-Kreis Alzey-WormsTrier Bad -Dürkheim
Bernkastel-Wittlich Germersheim
Trier-Saarburg Südliche WeinstraßeFrankenthal Mainz-Bingen
Kaiserslautern (town and rural district) Pirmasens
Landau i.d. Pfalz Donnersbergkreis609
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10Saxony (in the following urban and rural districts):
To r g a u -O s ch a t z
Delitzsch
Muldentalkreis
Riesa-GroßenhainMeißen-Radebeul
Sächsische Schweiz
BautzenLöbau-ZittauNiederschlesischer Oberlausitzkreis
Freiberg
Chemnitzer LandZwickauer Land
Kamenz
Saxony-Anhalt (in the following urban and rural districts):
Anhalt-Zerbst
SangerhausenWeißenfels
Ohrekreis
Jerichower LandHalberstadt
Stendal
Salzwedel
Thuringia (in the following urban and rural districts):
Nordhausen
Kyffhäuser Kreis
Unstrut-Hainich-Kreis
SömmerdaWartburg KreisGotha
Weimar-Land
Ilm-KreisHolzlandkreis
Altenburg
ErfurtWeimar
V. I TA LY
Non-less-favoured areas of the regions
Tuscany Abbruzzo (SIC! Abruzzo)
Umbria Molise
Marche CampaniaSicily BasilicataSardinia Puglia
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11Non-less-favoured areas of the provinces
Cuneo Pavia
V ercelli Parma
Bergamo Reggio Emilia
Brescia ModenaTreviso Bologna
Forlì
VI. AUSTRIA
Non-less-favoured areas in Gemeinde or parts of Gemeinde in the following Bezirke :
Bundesland Vorarlberg:
Feldkirch
Dornbirn
Bregenz
Bundesland Kärnten:
Klagenfurt
Klagenfurt-LandWolfsberg
Bundesland Salzburg:
Salzburg
Salzburg-Umgebung
Bundesland Steiermark:
Graz
Graz-UmgebungLeibnitzRadkersburg
Weiz
FeldbachFürstenfeld
Hartberg
Bundesland Oberösterreich:
Braunau am Inn
Ried im InnkreisSchärding
Vöcklabruck
GieskirchenEferding
Wels-Land
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12Bundesland Niederösterreich:
Amstetten
Melk
Scheibbs
St. Pölten-LandWien-Umgebung
Krems an der Donau
Krems-LandHornMödling
Baden
NeunkirchenWiener Neustadt-Land
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Eisenstadt-Land
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