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COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 2261/84
of 17 July 1984
laying down general rules on the granting of aid for the production of olive oil and of aid to
olive oil producer organizations
(OJ No L 208, 3. 8. 1984, p. 3)
Amended by:
Official Journal
No page date
Council Regulation (EEC) No 3788/85 of 20 December 1985 L 367 1 31. 12. 1985
Council Regulation (EEC) No 3763/86 of 8 December 1986 L 349 10 11. 12. 1986Council Regulation (EEC) No 168/87 of 19 January 1987 L 21 8 23. 1. 1987Council Regulation (EEC) No 892/88 of 29 March 1988 L 89 1 6. 4. 1988Council Regulation (EEC) No 1226/89 of 3 May 1989 L 128 17 11. 5. 1989Council Regulation (EEC) No 3500/90 of 27 November 1990 L 338 3 5. 12. 1990Council Regulation (EC) No 636/95 of 20 February 1995 L 67 1 25. 3. 1995
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ICOUNCIL REGULATION (EEC) No 2261/84
of 17 July 1984
laying down general rules on the granting of aid for the production of olive oil and of aid to
olive oil producer organizations
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the T reaty establishing the EuropeanEconomic Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC of
22 September 1966 on the establishment of a common or-
ganization of the market in oils and fats (
1), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2260/84 (2), and in par-
ticular Article 5 (4) thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
Whereas Article 5 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC intro-
duced a system of production aid for olive oil; whereas this
aid in respect of areas under olives at a certain date isgranted to growers who are members of the producer or-
ganizations specified in Article 20c (1) of Regulation No
136/66/EEC and whose average production is at least 100
kilograms of oil per marketing year and to other growers
on the basis of the number and production potential of
olive trees and of the yields of such trees, as determined
according to a standard method, and provided that the
olives produced have actually been harvested;
Whereas, pending the establishing of a register of olive
cultivation, aid for the growers concerned should be calcu-
lated on the basis of the average yields of olive trees;
Whereas, in order to ensure the proper operation of the
system of aid, it is necessary to determine the types of
olive oil in respect of which aid is granted;
Whereas, in order to ensure the proper operation of the
system aid, the rights and obligations of all those con-
cerned, namely growers producer organizations and associ-
ations of producer organizations and also the Member
States concerned should be laid down;
Whereas the basis should be a system of crop declarations
made by growers;
(1) OJ No 172, 30. 9. 1966, p. 3025/66.
(2) OJ No L 208, 3. 8. 1984, p. 1.
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IIWhereas the olive oil producer organizations referred to in
Article 20c (1) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC must have a
minimum number of members or represent a minimum
percentage of growers or of oil production; whereas these
minimum numbers or percentages must be fixed at levels
compatible, on the one hand, with the need for efficiency
of the organizations and, on the other hand, with facilities
for verification available in the producer Member States;
whereas to ensure the efficient management of the organ-
izations, certain additional conditions to be fulfilled by
member growers should be laid down;
Whereas the associations of olive oil producer organiz-
ations referred to in Article 20c (2) of the said Regulation
must be composed of a minimum number of groups or
represent a minimum percentage of national production;
whereas these minimum numbers or percentages should be
set at levels which enable the special coordination andchecking work incumbent on such associations to be car-
ried out in an effective manner;
Whereas Article 20c of the said Regulation specifies that
producer organizations and associations of producer organ-
izations should carry out certain verification and coordina-
tion tasks; whereas the precise nature of these tasks should
therefore be defined;
Whereas, in the interests of proper administration, pro-
ducer organizations and associations thereof must apply to
the competent national authorities for recognition in good
time before the beginning of the marketing year; whereas
the Member State concerned should decide on their ap-
plication within a reasonable time;
Whereas, in accordance with Article 20d (1) of the said
Regulation, a percentage of the aid may be retained to
contribute towards the expenditure incurred by producer
organizations and associations thereof on making checks;
whereas steps should be taken to ensure that the sums re-
tained are used only for the financing of the tasks pro-
vided for in Article 20c (1) and (2) of the said Regulation;
Whereas Article 20d (2) of the said Regulation provides
that only associations are to qualify for an advance on the
amount of the aid; whereas for reasons of sound manage-
ment this advance should not exceed a certain percentage
of the amount of the aid;
Whereas, in order to ensure the proper operation of the
system of production aid for growers who belong to pro-
ducer organizations, provision should be made for paying
aid only in respect of the quantities obtained in approvedmills; whereas, for the purposes of approval, the mills con-
cerned should fulfil a number of conditions;
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IIIWhereas the aid in question is of considerable advantage
to oil producers and represents a financial burden on the
Community; whereas, in order to guarantee that the aid is
granted only in respect of oil which qualifies therefore,
provision should be made for an appropriate system of ad-
ministrative checks;
Whereas, in the interests of proper administration of the
aid system, provision should be made for Member States
to determine the quantity of olive oil eligible for aid in
cases where the actual production of an olive grower is in
doubt;
Whereas experience has shown that, despite the large
number of specific checks introduced, the number of
growers to be supervised makes detailed and effective
checking and verification difficult; whereas it is necessary
to resolve these difficulties by setting up in each Member
State a computerized file containing all the informationneeded to facilitate checking and the prompt detection of
irregularities,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
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1CHAPTER I
General provisions
Article 1
As from the 1984/1985 marketing year, the general rules
laid down in this Regulation shall apply to the granting of
the production aid for olive oil referred to in Article 5 of
Regulation No 136/66/EEC. However they shall not apply
to Spain and Portugal until the start of the 1986/1987
marketing year.
Article 2
1. Production aid shall be granted in respect of oliveoil as defined in points 1 and 4 of the Annex to Regula-
tion No 136/66/EEC.
2. The aid shall be granted to olive growers establishedin the Member States. For the purposes of this Regulation
an olive grower shall be any grower of olives which are
used to produce oil.
3. The aid shall be granted on application by the
parties concerned to the Member State in which the oil
has been produced.
4. In the case of olive growers whose average produc-tion is at least 500 kilograms of oil per marketing year, the
aid shall be granted in accordance with the first indent of
Article 5 (2) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC in respect of
the quantity of oil actually produced at an approved mill.
In the case of other growers, the aid shall be granted in
accordance with the second indent of Article 5 (2) of Re-
gulation No 136/66/EEC and shall be equal to the amount
obtained by applying the average olive yields and oil yields
over the previous four marketing years, fixed according to
a standard method in accordance with Article 18 of this
Regulation, with regard to the number of olive trees in
production and provided the olives are processed into oil
at an approved mill.
5. The producer Member States shall determine whicholive growers have a production of at least
500 kg of oil
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2In cases where the necessary data does not exist or is not
available or the olive grower has amended the crop declar-
ation involving a change in the production potential, en-
titlement shall be determined by multiplying the number of
olive trees in production by the average of the olive yield
and the oil yields fixed, pursuant to Article 18, for the two
previous marketing years.
CHAPTER 2
Obligations incumbent on olive growers
Article 3
1. Each olive grower shall, at the beginning of the
marketing year and before a date to be determined, submit
to the competent authorities of the Member State con-
cerned a crop declaration containing, on the first occasion
it is lodged:
— particulars of the olive trees grown and their location,
— a copy of the declaration submitted for the purpose,
of compiling the olive-cultivation register.
2. For the following marketing years each olive growershall, before a date to be determined, lodge a supplemen-
tary declaration indicating any changes that have occurred
or stating that his previous crop declaration remains appli-
cable.
3. Olive growers who are members of a producer or-ganization shall, by a date to be determined, submit to theorganization an individual aid application providing evi-
dence that the olives have been pressed at an approved
mill.
4. The olive growers referred to in paragraph 3 shalllodge the crop declaration and aid application through
their organization.
5. An olive grower may not be a member of more
than one producer organization for areas located in a
given administrative area and may not lodge more than
one crop declaration and one aid application for those
areas.
If an olive grower leaves the organization before the end
of the period mentioned in the first indent of Article 20c
(1) (g) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC, he may not join
another organization provided for by this Regulation dur-
ing the remainder of the period.
Producer organizations shall notify the Member State con-
cerned of the names of olive growers referred to in the
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36. Olive growers who are not members of a producer
organization shall, by a date to be determined, submit to
the competent authorities of the Member State concerned,
an aid application containing evidence that the olives have
been pressed at an approved mill.
7. Olive growers who fail to comply with the obliga-tions laid down in this Article shall be refused aid.
CHAPTER 3
Producer organizations
Article 4
1. Without prejudice to the other requirements of Ar-
ticle 20c (1) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC a producer or-
ganization may not be recognized under that Regulation
unless:
(a) it consists, in the case of organizations producing and
increasing the market value of olives and olive oil, of
at least 700 olive growers; or
(b) it consists, in other cases, of at least 1 200 olive
growers; should one or more organizations producing
and increasing the market value of olives and olive oil
be a member of the organization in question, the
growers concerned shall be considered individually for
the purposes of calculating the minimum number of
growers required; or
(c) it represents at least 25 % of the olive growers or of
olive oil production in the economic region in which
it has been set up.
2. Only the following may belong to a producer organ-
ization: olive growers who own an olive grove which they
exploit or olive growers who have been exploiting an olive
grove for a period of at least three years.
T o this end, olive growers shall submit to the producer or-
ganizations of which they are members the information
needed to establish that they are persons exploiting an
olive grove and information on any changes which have
occurred since their application for membership.
3. For the purposes of this Regulation, ‘economic re-
gion’ shall mean a region which, under criteria to be fixed
by the Member State concerned, possesses similar produc-
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44. Member States shall take any necessary action to
encourage the setting up of producer groups as specified in
Regulation (EEC) No 1360/78 (1) or of other organizations
for producing and increasing the market value of olives
and olive oil which can be recognized as producer organiz-
ations for the purposes of this Regulation.
Article 5
1. Producer ogranizations (SIC! organizations) wishing
to obtain recognition from the beginning of a marketing
year shall apply to the competent authority of the Member
State concerned by 30 June of the previous marketing year
at the latest.
2. By 15 October, following receipt of the application,
at the latest, the competent authority shall, after checking
whether the organization meets the requirements of Article
20c (1) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC and of Article 4,
take a decision on the application and notify it forthwith
to the organization concerned and to the Commission.
Recognition shall take effect from the beginning of the
marketing year following that in which application was
made.
3. Recognized producer organizations shall by 30 June
of each year declare to the competent authority any
changes made in their structure since their recognition or
last annual declaration and report any notices of with-
drawal of or application for membership received.
The competent authority shall ascertain, on the basis of
this statement and of any appropriate enquiries, whether
the conditions for recognition continue to be met.
If they are no longer met or if the structure of an organiz-
ation does not allow for its members’ production to be
verified, the competent authority must, without delay and
at the latest before the beginning of the following market-
ing year, withdraw recognition and notify its decision to do
so to the Commission.
Article 6
1. Recognized producer organizations which are not
members of an association referred to in Article 20c (2) of
Regulation No 136/66/EEC shall:
— lodge, in accordance with Article 3 (1), the crop dec-
larations of all their members,
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5— submit, once per month, in a standardized form suit-
able for computer processing as provided for in Ar-
ticle 16 the aid applications of their members. Aid
shall be requested for the quantity produced by those
members who have completed their oil production,
provided that the checks specified in Article 8 (1)
have been made and the resulting obligations dis-
charged.
All applications relating to the production of a single
marketing year must, on pain of preclusion, be lodged
b e f o r ead a t et ob es p e c i f i e d ;
— shall receive from the Member State concerned ad-
vances on the production aid, as mentioned in Article
12, and the balance of the aids, and shall forthwith
divide them amongst the olive grower members.
2. In cases where a producer organization belongs to
an association of such organizations, the crop declarationsand aid applications of the olive grower members must be
submitted by the association.
Article
7
Article 8
1. Before submitting the aid application each producer
organization shall check:
— the compliance of the file submitted by each of its
members with the obligations referred to in Article 3,and in particular the existence of evidence that the
olives have been pressed in an approved mill,
— with regard to olive growers whose average produc-
tion is at least 500 kilograms of olive oil per market-
ing year, that the particulars supplied by each grower
as to the quantities of olives pressed and the quan-
tities of oil obtained correspond to the quantities of
olives and oil stated in the evidence of pressing.
2. The producer organization shall forward the files on
their members to the competent authorities of the Member
State concerned when the correspondence referred to in
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6CHAPTER 4
Associations of producer organizations
Article 9
1. Without prejudice to the requirements of Article
20c (2) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC an association may
not be recognized unless it comprises at least 10 producer
organizations recognized under Article 5 or a number of
organizations accounting for at least 5 % of the olive oil
produced in the Member State concerned.
However, the producer organizations comprising an associ-
ation must be from two or more economic regions.
2. The provisions on recognition and withdrawal there-
of set out in Article 5 shall also apply to associations.
Article 10
The associations specified in Article 20c (2) of Regulation
No 136/66/EEC:
— shall coordinate the activities of the organization of
which they are composed and ensure that these acti-
vities accord with this Regulation, and in particular
shall directly and in accordance with a percentage to
be determined verify the manner in which the checks
specified in Article 8 have been carried out,
— shall lodge with the competent authorities the crop
declarations and the aid applications forwarded to
them by the organizations of which they are com-
posed,
— shall receive from the Member State concerned ad-
vances on the production aid, as mentioned in Article
12, and the balance of the aids, and shall forthwith
divide them amongst the producers who are membersof the organizations of which they are composed.
CHAPTER 5
Rules common to olive oil producer organizations and
associations thereof
Article 11
1. The amount of the sum withheld referred to in Ar-
ticle 20d (1) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC shall be used
in the following way:
(a) a sum to be determined shall be paid to each associ-
ation on the basis of the number of members of the
producer organizations of which it is composed;
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7— the number of individual aid applications lodged
with each organization by its members,
— of the quantity of olive oil for which aid is
granted through each organization,
2. Member States in which olive oil is produced shallensure that the sums made over to the associations and to
producer organizations in application of paragraph 1 are
used by them only for financing the activities for which
they are responsible under this Regulation.
3. If sums are not used, in whole or in part, as speci-
fied in paragraph 2, they must be repaid to the Member
States concerned, and shall be deducted from the expendi-
ture financed by the EAGGF.
4. In order to facilitate the operation of associations
and producer organizations, Member States are authorized
to pay to them, at the beginning of each marketing year,
and advance to be calculated on a flat-rate basis on thenumber of members.
5. Producer Member States shall lay down rules re-
garding allocation of the aid and the time limits for pay-
ment to olive growers.
Article 12
1. Each olive grower whose average production is at
least 500 kilograms of olive oil per marketing year may
receive an advance on the amount of the aid requested.
2. The advance:
(a) shall be equal to the amount obtained by multiplying
the unit amount of the aid fixed pursuant to Article
17a (2) by the quantity of oil stated in the aid ap-
plication;
(b) may not be granted unless:
— the olive yields and oil yields have been fixed for
the current marketing year in accordance with
Article 18,
— the checks referred to in Article 8 (1) and the
on-the-spot checks referred to in Article 14 (3a)
have been carried out,
Article 13
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8(a) have forwarded to the relevant Member State, in ac-
cordance with rules to be determined, full in forma-
tion on their technical equipment and actual pressing
capacity and any changes in this information;
(b) have agreed to undergo any check provided for under
the aid procedure, to accept on their premises any
means of control deemed necessary and to allow any
checks on their accounts;
(c) have not been subject, during the preceding marketing
year, to proceedings for irregularities noted during
checks made pursuant to Article 14 and pursuant to
this Article as regards approval for the 1984/85
marketing year;
— have not been subject to proceedings for irregu-
larities noted during checks made for the
1983/84 marketing year pursuant to Articles 7
and 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 2959/82 (1), and
— have not had their approval withdrawn for a
period extending beyond 31 October 1984 in
pursuance of that Regulation;
(d) agree to keep standardized stock records meeting cri-
teria to be determined.
2. Member States shall verify before granting approval
whether the conditions for approval are fulfilled, and in
particular shall check on the spot the technical equipment
and actual pressing capacity of mills.
3. Provisional approval may be granted to any mill thatbegins operation under the production aid scheme gov-
erned by this Regulation. Approval shall be granted as
soon as an application for approval has been submitted
under the conditions referred to in paragraph 1. The
period of validity of the provisional approval may not ex-
ceed the end of the marketing year during which it was
granted. However, the period of validity of provisional ap-
proval granted during the 1984/1985, 1985/1986 and
1986/1987 marketing years shall expire at the end of the
1986/1987 marketing year.
Such provisional approval shall become definitive as soonas the Member State concerned has ascertained that the
conditions for approval laid down in paragraph 1 are ful-
filled.
Should it be found that one of the conditions specified in
paragraph 1 is not fulfilled, the provisional approval shall
be withdrawn.
4. In cases where one of the conditions for approval
set out in paragraph 1 is no longer fulfilled, approval shallbe withdrawn for a period in keeping with the gravity of
infringement.
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95. In cases where approval is withdrawn in accordance
with paragraphs 3 and 4, no new application for approval
may be granted at any time during the period of with-
drawal:
— to the same natural or legal person operating the mill
in question, or
— to any natural or legal person who wishes to operate
the mill in question, unless that person can show, to
the satisfaction of the Member concerned, that the
application for fresh approval is not intended to cir-
cumvent the sanction imposed.
6. Should the withdrawal of a mill’s approval have seri-
ous consequences on the pressing capacity in a given pro-
duction zone, it may be decided to approve the mill under
special control arrangements.
CHAPTER 6
System of checks
Article 14
1. Each producer Member State shall apply a system
of checks to ensure that the product in respect of which
aid is granted is eligible for such aid.
2. Producer Member States shall verify the activities ofeach producer organization and association and, in particu-
lar, that the checking operations have been carried out by
these bodies within the meaning of Article 8 (1) and Ar-ticle 10, first indent.
3. In the course of each marketing year and during theoil-pressing period in particular, producer Member States
shall carry out on-the-spot checks on the activities and the
stock records of a percentage of approved mills to be de-
termined.
The mills selected must be representative of the pressing
capacity of a production zone.
3a. For the purposes of paying aid to olive growerswhose average production is at least 500 kilograms of olive
oil per marketing year, the producer Member States shall
check:
— the accuracy of the crop declarations on the basis of
criteria to be determined,
— the correspondence between the quantity of oil en-
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10— the compatibility between the olive production de-
clared by each olive grower as having been pressed in
an approved mill and the particulars given in his crop
declaration on the basis of criteria to be determined.
4. With regard to the olive oil referred to in part 1 of
the Annex to Regulation No 136/ 66/EEC and produced
by olive growers whose average production is less than 500
kilograms of olive oil per marketing year, the checks
should verify:
— the accuracy of the crop declarations on the basis of
criteria to be determined,
— the existence of evidence of the olives having been
p r e s s e di na na p p r o v e dm i l l .
5. For these checks and verifications Member Statesshall use inter alia the computerized data files provided for
in Article 16.
These files shall be used to guide the checking operations
to be carried out pursuant to paragraphs 1 to 4.
Article 15
1. Member States shall determine the quantity of oil
eligible for aid on the basis of the applications submitted
under Articles 3 and 6, taking into account all relevantfacts, and in particular all the checks and verifications pro-
vided for in this Regulation.
The quantity of olive oil referred to in point 4 of the
Annex to Regulation No 136/66/EEC for which aid may be
given shall be detemined on the basis of production of the
type of oil defined at point 1 of that Annex.
2. In the case of producers whose files have been for-
warded to it by their organization in accordance with Ar-
t i c l e8( 2 )t h eM e m b e rS t a t es h a l ld e t e r m i n et h eq u a n t i t y
of oil for which aid shall be given.
3. Where the checks specified in Articles 13 and 14 donot confirm the figures in the stock records of an approved
mill, the Member State concerned shall, without prejudice
to any sanctions which may be imposed on the mill, deter-
mine, for each producer whose average production is at
least 500 kilograms of olive oil per marketing year and
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114. For the purpose of determining the quantity eligible
for aid in cases covered by paragraphs 2 and 3, the
Member State shall in particular, use the olive yields and
oil yields fixed in accordance with the standard method of
Article 18.
Article 16
1. Each producer Member State shall draw up and
keep up to date permanent computerized files of olive and
olive-oil production data.
2. These files must contain at least the following in-
formation:
(a) for each olive grower and for each marketing year for
which he has made an application for aid:
— the information contained in the crop declaration
provided for in Article 3,
— the quantities of oil produced for which an ap-
plication for production aid has been made and
the quantities for which aid is paid,
— the information resulting from the on-the-spot
checks made on the olive grower;
(b) for producer organizations and associations of pro-
ducer organizations, all information needed to verifytheir activities in connection with the present aid sys-
tem and also the results of checks made by the
Member States;
(c) for oil mills and for each marketing year the data ap-
pearing in the stock records, information on technical
equipment and pressing capacity and the results of
checks made pursuant to this Regulation;
(d) the indicative annual yields for each homogeneous
production zone.
Article 17
1. The files referred to in Article 16 shall be confiden-
tial.
The following shall have access to them:
— the national authorities empowered by the Member
State,
— Commission employees in cooperation with the com-
petent officials of the Member States and in accord-
ance with Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 (
1), as last
amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3509/80 (2), par-
ticularly with regard to the procedures laid down,
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12— producer organizations and associations thereof, as re-
g a r d st h ea s p e c t sw h i c ht h eM e m b e rS t a t e sd e e m
necessary in order to check effectively on their re-
spective existing members.
2. The information files set up and the processing sys-
tems used in checking them must be compatible with the
computerized systems used by each producer Member
State for the register of olive cultivation.
CHAPTER 7
Final provisions
Article 17a
1. The Commission shall determine the average olive
yields and oil yields over the four previous marketing
years, before 1 March, in respect of the current marketing
year.
2 . T h ef o l l o w i n gs h a l lb ed e t e r m i n e di na c c o r d a n c e
with the procedure laid down in Article 38 of Regulation
No 136/66/EEC, before 1 July, in respect of the current
marketing year:
— estimated production,
— the unit amount of the production aid that can be
paid in advance. That amount must be such, under
the production conditions of the marketing year in
question, as to avoid any risk of unwarranted payment
to olive growers.
3. Not more than eight months, after the end of the
marketing year, the following shall be determined in re-
spect of that year in accordance with the procedure re-
ferred to in paragraph 2:
— the quantity actually produced in respect of which en-
titlement to aid has been recognized,
— the unit amount of the production aid provided for
under (b) in the fifth subparagraph of Article 5 (1) of
Regulation No 136/66/EEC, payable to producers
whose average production is at least 500 kilograms
per marketing year,
— the quantity to be carried over to the next marketing
year, if the quantity produced referred to in the first
indent is less than the maximum quantity laid down.
4. Member States shall, not later than 15 June, com-
municate to the Commission their olive oil production esti-
mates for the current marketing year. The Commission
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13Article 18
The olive yields and oil yields mentioned in the second
indent of the first subparagraph of Article 5 (2) of Regula-
tion No 136/66/EEC shall be fixed by homogeneous pro-
duction zones, at the latest by 30 June of each year, on
the basis of the figures supplied by producer Member
States not later than 31 May of each year.
Article 19
Detailed rules for the application of this Regulation shall
be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in
Article 38 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC.
The following shall be fixed in accordance with the same
procedure:
— the yields referred to in Article 18,
— the sum referred to in Article 11 (1) .
Article 20
In order to ensure a smooth transition from the arrange-
ments currently in force to those established under this
Regulation, the Commission may decide on any necessary
measures for the 1984/85 marketing year in accordance
with the procedure referred to in Article 38 of Regulation
No 136/66/EEC.
With a view to ensuring the respect of the objectives of
this Regulation whilst taking into consideration specific
problems which may arise in certain Member States in the
application of these provisions, the Member States con-
cerned may, after consulting the Commission, whilst taking
into consideration any additional criteria, grant for a
transitional period of three marketing years, from the
marketing year 1984/85, provisional recognition to such
producers organizations and their associations which make
ar e q u e s t .
Article 21
Before 1 January 1995, the Commission shall submit to the
Council a report on the working of the system of aid for
the production of olive oil, accompanied if necessary by
proposals for revision of the system.
Article 22
The Member States shall notify the Commission of the
measures taken pursuant to this Regulation.
Article 23
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Commu-
nities.2261/84
636/95
636/95
892/88 - - - deleted
892/88
3500/90
2261/84