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►B REGULATION(EEC)No879/73OFTHECOUNCIL
of26March1973
onthegrantingandreimbursementofaidaccordedbytheMemberStatestorecognizedproducer
groupsinthehopsector
(OJ L 86, 31.3.1973, p. 26)
Amended by:
Official Journal
No page date
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REGULATION(EEC)No879/73OFTHECOUNCIL
of26March1973
on the granting and reimbursement of aid accorded by the
Member Statestorecognized producergroupsinthehopsector
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European EconomicCommunity;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71(
1) of 26 July
1971 on the common organization of the market in hops, and in parti-cular Article 10 (1) thereof;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;Whereas provision should be made to adopt conditions and general
rules to implement the granting of aid given by the Member States to
producer groups, and also the procedure for the reimbursement of this
aid by the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund,guidance section;
Whereas in order to ensure identical conditions for the granting and
reimbursement of aid for the creation and operation of producer groups,the procedure for calculating the value of the marketed output coveredby the activities of producer groups, and the management costs of such
groups, should be specified; whereas this calculation must be made on
the basis of authentic accounting data; whereas, however, in view ofthe difficulty of obtaining such data in certain cases, an alternativefixed-rate method should be adopted; whereas ‘year for which aid isrequested’ means a period of twelve months; whereas, this period, inthe case of the first year, should run from the date of recognition;
Whereas it is necessary to specify the conditions for granting aid for
changing to different varieties and for the reorganization of plantations,
and in particular to define these operations; whereas to ensure struc-tural effect provision must be made for these operations to beincluded in the framework of the common rules for production and tocover a minimum area; whereas it is fair that the amount of aid shouldbe limited to the level of the actual costs entailed by the various opera-
tions;
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
TITLE I
Aidforsettingupandfunctioning
Article 1
In order to calculate the aid referred to in Article 8 of Regulation
(EEC) No 1696/71 for the recognized producer groups, called hereafter‘groups’, the following shall be taken into consideration:
— producers who are members of the group on the date it is recog-
nized and who have been members of the group for the whole
year for which aid is requested;
— producers who joined the group after it was recognized and who
have been members of the group for the last nine months of the
year for which aid is requested.
Article 2
The value of the products marketed by a group shall be calculated for
eachvariety by multiplying:1973R0879 — EN — 17.10.1977 — 001.001 — 2
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— the average output referred to in Article 8 (2), first indent, of Regu-
lation (EEC) No 1696/71, determined in accordance withth eprovisions of Article 3 and expressed in 100 net kgs, by
— the average price referred to in Article 8 (2) second indent of the
said Regulation, determined according to Article 4 and calculated
in 100 net kgs.
Article 3
In order to calculate the average output referred to in Article 2, first
indent, the output marketed by the member producers, according tovariety, shall be determined for each of the three calendar yearspreceding their joining:
— on the basis of any commercial documents and accounts of a proba-
tive nature that may be available, or
— in the event of no such supporting documents being available, by
multiplying the area given over to the production of the varieties
in question in each of these three years by the average yield for
each of the corresponding years, as recorded by the competentdepartments of the Member States in the recognized productionarea.
Article 4
In order to calculate the average price referred to in Article 2, second
indent, the average price obtained by the member producers for each of
the three calendar years preceding their joining shall be determined:
— on the basis of any commercial documents and accounts of a proba-
tive nature that may be available, or
— in the event of no such supporting documents being available, on
the basis of the current prices of the varieties in question, asrecorded by the competent departments of the Member States inthe recognized production areas.
Article 5
1. The amount of management costs referred to in Article 8 of
Regulation (EEC) No 1696/71, taken into consideration for calculatingthe maximum amount of aid granted to groups, must be established on
the basis of commercial documents and accounts of a probative nature
and be approved by the competent authorities of the Member State.
2. The management costs to be taken into consideration shall be
determined in keeping withArticle 10 (2) of th e said Regulation.
Article 6
Producer associations and producer groups which had prior to 1 July
1977 been recognized as provided for in Article 7 (3) of Regulation
(EEC) No 1696/71 shall qualify for the aid provided for in Article 8
(1) of that same Regulation only if they incur expenditure in adaptingto satisfy the conditions laid down in Article 7 of Regulation (EEC)No 1696/71.
TITLE III
General provisions
Article 13
When the first request for reimbursement is forwarded, the Member
State concerned shall communicate to the Commission a certificatestating the dates when the group was set up and recognized.1973R0879 — EN — 17.10.1977 — 001.001 — 3
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Article 14
The Commission shall take a decision in regard to requests for reim-
bursement in one or more payments in accordance withth e procedure
laid down in Article 7 (1) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 729/70(1)
of 21 April 1970 on the financing of the common agricultural policy.
Article 15
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.1973R0879 — EN — 17.10.1977 — 001.001 — 4
(1) OJ No L 94, 28. 4. 1970, p. 13.