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"B COMMISSION DECISION
of 7 March 2000
on the granting of aid for the production of table olives in Italy
(notified under document number C(2000) 599)
(Only the Italian text is authentic)
(2000/227/EC)
(OJ L 71, 18.3.2000, p. 28)
Amended by:
Official Journal
No page date
"M1 Commission Decision 2000/499/EC of 24 July 2000 L 200 58 8.8.20002000D0227 — EN — 08.08.2000 — 001.001 — 1
COMMISSION DECISION
of 7 March 2000
on the granting of aid for the production of table olives in Italy
(notified under document number C(2000) 599)
(Only the Italian text is authentic)
(2000/227/EC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC of 22 September 1966
on the establishment of a common organisation of the market in oils andfats (
1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1638/98 (2), and in particular
Article 5(4) thereof,
Whereas
(1) Article 5(4) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC grants the Member States
the possibility of allocating part of their national guaranteed quantities
and of their olive oil production aid to support for table olives under
conditions to be approved by the Commission in accordance with theprocedure laid down in Article 38 of that Regulation.
(2) Italy has presented a request in respect of the 2000/2001 marketing
year and detailed rules should be laid down for the granting of the aid.
(3) Provision should be made for the aid to be granted to growers of
processed table olives from olive groves in Italy and the conditions
governing the granting of the aid should be specified.
(4) The processing period should be defined as running from 1 September
2000 to 31 August 2001. Olives which have undergone initialtreatment in brine lasting at least 15 days and have been removed
from the brine definitively or failing that have undergone treatment
making them fit for human consumption should be deemed to beprocessed olives.
(5) The weight of processed table olives for which aid is payable and the
equivalence between processed table olives and olive oil should bedetermined for the purposes of calculating the unit aid for table olivesand of administering the national guaranteed quantities.
(6) Undertakings processing table olives must be approved in accordance
with conditions to be determined.
(7) Provisions should be laid down for checks on aid for table olives.
Those provisions must in particular cover crop declarations by table
olive growers, notifications by processors of the quantities of olivesdelivered by growers and leaving the processing chain, and theobligations on paying agencies regarding checks. Provision should be
made for penalties on table olive growers where their declarations
conflict with the results of checks.
(8) The information needed for calculating the aid to be granted to growers
of processed table olives should be determined. An advance on the aid
may be granted under certain conditions.
(9) Italy must notify the Commission of the national measures adopted for
the purposes of applying this Decision and of the information used for
calculating the advance on the aid and the definitive aid.
(10) The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the
opinion of the Management Committee for Oils and Fats,!B
(1) OJ 172, 30.9.1966, p.3025/66.
(2) OJ L 210, 28.7.1998, p. 32.2000D0227 — EN — 08.08.2000 — 001.001 — 2
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
For the 2000/2001 olive oil marketing year, Italy is authorised to grant aid for
the production of table olives in accordance with this Decision.
Article 2
1. Aid for the production of table olives shall be granted to growers of olives
which come from olive groves in Italy and are sent to approved processing
undertakings for processing into table olives.
2. For the 2000/2001 olive-oil marketing year, aid shall be granted for table
olives processed between 1 September 2000 and 31 August 2001.
3. Within the meaning of this Decision, ‘processed table olives’ means
olives that have undergone at least 15 days’ initial treatment in brine and have
been removed from the brine definitively or failing that have undergone
treatment making them fit for human consumption.
Article 3
1. For the purposes of calculating the unit aid for table olives and of
administering the national guaranteed quantities of olive oil, 100 kg of
processed table olives shall be deemed to be equivalent to 13 kg of olive oil
eligible for production aid as provided for in Article 5 of Regulation No136/66/EEC.
2. The weight of processed table olives to be taken into consideration shall
be the drained net weight of whole olives aver processing, possibly bruised
but not stoned.
Article 4
1. Approval numbers shall be allocated to undertakings which:
— submit an application for approval by
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accompanied by the information referred to in paragraph 2 and thecommitments referred to in paragraph 3,
— market processed table olives, with or without additional preparation,— have plant capable of processing at least 50 tonnes of olives per year.2. Applications for approval shall include at least:— a description of the processing plant and storage facilities, with details of
their capacity,
— a description of the forms of table olive preparations marketed, indicating
the average weight of processed table olives required for one kilogram ofeach type of prepared product.
3. For the purposes of approval, processors shall undertake to:— keep table olives for which aid is payable separate from table olives
originating in third countries and those for which aid is not payable when
taking delivery of, processing and storing them,
— keep details of stocks of table olives at various stages of preparation, by
form of preparation, as at 1 September 2000,
— keep stock records covering table olives, linked to the financial accounts
and indicating, for each day:
(a) the quantities of olives entering the establishment, showing each
consignment separately and identifying the grower of each;
(b) the quantities of olives sent for processing and the quantities of table
olives processed within the meaning of Article 2(3);
(c) the quantities of table olives for which the process of preparation has
been completed;
(d) the quantities of table olives leaving the undertaking, broken down
by form of preparation and indicating the consignees.!B2000D0227 — EN — 08.08.2000 — 001.001 — 3
— provide the grower as referred to in Article 2(1) and the competent body
with the documents and the information referred to in Article 6 inaccordance with the conditions laid down therein,
— submit to all checks provided for under this Decision.
4. Approval shall be refused or immediately withdrawn where undertakings:— fail to comply or no longer comply with the conditions for approval, or
— are prosecuted by the competent authorities for irregularities in respect of
the arrangements provided for in Regulation No 136/66/EEC, or
— have been penalised for an infringement of that Regulation within the
past 24 months.
Article 5
For the purposes of granting the aid for the production of table olives, by 30
November 2000 growers shall lodge a crop attestation, directly or indirectly,
with the competent body confirming that the declaration laid down for olive
oil production aid also covers table olives or, as appropriate, a new declarationcontaining the same information as the crop declaration for olive oil butreferring to table olives.
Where the information concerned has already been furnished by a crop
declaration for olive oil and has not been subject to modification, thesupplementary declaration shall simply indicate the references to the crop
declaration and the parcels concerned.
The declarations concerning table olives shall be included in the alpha-
numeric database provided for in connection with the aid scheme for olive oil
production.
Article 6
1. During the month following delivery of the final consignment of olives
and no later than 30 June 2001, approved undertakings shall issue growers asreferred to in Article 2(1) with a certificate of delivery showing the net weight
of olives entering the undertaking.
The certificate must be supported by all the documentation relating to the
weight of the consignments of olives delivered.
2. Approved undertakings shall notify the competent body and the control
agency:
(a) before the 10th day of each month, of:
— the quantities of olives received, sent for processing and processed
within the meaning of Article 2(3) in the course of the previous
month,
— the quantities of olives prepared and sent out, broken down by form
of preparation, in the course of the previous month;
— the aggregate quantities referred to in the first two indents and the
stock situation at the end of the previous month;
(b) before 1 July 2001, of the names of growers as referred to in Article 2(1)
for the processing period referred to in Article 2(2) and of the quantities
covered by certificates issued to them in accordance with paragraph 1;
(c) before 1 June 2002, of the total quantities delivered for the processing
period referred to in Article 2(2) and of the corresponding total quantities
processed.
Article 7
1. Before 1 July 2001, table olive growers shall lodge aid applications,
directly or indirectly, with the competent body, containing at least the
following details:
— the name and address of the grower,
— a reference to the relevant crop declaration,
— the approved undertaking to which the olives were delivered.!B2000D0227 — EN — 08.08.2000 — 001.001 — 4
Such applications shall be accompanied by certificates of delivery as referred
to in Article 6(1).
Where applicable, applications may be accompanied by an application for an
advance on the aid.
2. Applications lodged after the deadline shall incur a penalty consisting of
a reduction of 1 % of the amount to which the grower would have beenentitled had the application been lodged by the due date, for each working day
of delay. Applications lodged more than 25 working days late shall be refused.
Article 8
1. Before the definitive payment of the aid, the competent body shall carry
out the controls required to check:
— the quantities of table olives covered by certificates of delivery,— the quantities of table olives processed, broken down by grower.
Controls shall involve:
— several physical inspections of goods in stock and a check of the accounts
of approved undertakings,
— stricter checks of aid applications from olive growers applying for aid for
both table olives and olive oil.
2. Italy shall see that all the necessary controls are in place to ensure that:— entitlement to table olive production aid is respected,
— olives entering an undertaking approved under this Decision are excluded
from eligibility for olive oil production aid,
— no more than one aid application is lodged for the same olives.3. Without prejudice to the penalties laid down by Italy, no aid shall be
granted to growers as referred to in Article 2(1) whose declarations as
provided for in Article 5 or whose aid applications in accordance with Article7 prove to conflict with the results of checks. However, Article 15 of
Commission Regulation (EC) No 2366/98 (
1) shall apply mutatis mutandis .
Article 9
1. Growers as referred to in Article 2(1) may receive an advance on the aid
requested. The advance shall be equal to the unit amount referred to in Article
17a(1) of Coucil Regulation (EEC) No 2261/84 (2), multiplied by the quantity
of olive oil equivalent, in accordance with Article 3( 1 ) of this Decision, tothe relevant quantity of table olives processed.
For the purposes of granting advances to growers, the quantity of table olives
processed shall be determined by applying a provisional processingcoefficient to the quantity appearing in the certificate of delivery, as
confirmed by the other information notified to the competent body. That
coefficient shall be established by the competent body on the basis of the dataavailable on the approved undertaking concerned. However, the quantity oftable olives taken into consideration may not exceed 90 % of the quantity of
table olives delivered.
2. Advances on the aid shall be paid from 16 October 2001 to growers
applying therefor in accordance with Article 7(1).
Article 10
1. Without prejudice to the reductions provided for in Article 20d of
Regulation No 136/66/EEC, the aid shall be equal to the unit amount referred
to in Article 17a(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2261/84 multiplied by the
quantity of olive oil equivalent, in accordance with Article 3(1) of thisDecision, to the relevant quantity of table olives processed.
For the purposes of granting the aid to growers as referred to in Article 2(1),
the quantity of table olives processed shall be determined by applying a
processing coefficient for the undertaking concerned to the quantityappearing in the certificate of delivery, as confirmed by the other information!B
(1) OJ L 293, 31.10.1998, p. 50.
(2) OJ L 208, 3.8.1984, p. 3.2000D0227 — EN — 08.08.2000 — 001.001 — 5
notified to the competent body. That coefficient shall be equal to the ratio
between the total quantity of table olives processed on the one hand, and thetotal quantity of table olives covered by certificates of delivery on the otherhand, in respect of the olive-oil marketing year concerned.
Where the quantity of processed olives corresponding to the aid as set out in
the certificate of delivery cannot be established, the quantities of table olives
processed for the growers concerned shall be calculated using the average
coefficient for the other undertakings. However, without prejudice to anyclaims which the olive growers concerned might make against the undertak-
ing, that quantity of processed olives may not exceed 75 % of the quantity
shown in the certificate of delivery.
2. Once the controls referred to in Article 8 have been carried out, the aid or,
where applicable, the balance of the aid shall be paid to the grower in fullwithin 90 days of the Commission fixing the unit amount thereof.
Article 11
Italy shall notify the Commission:
— without delay, of the national measures taken pursuant to this Decision,
— before 1 August 2001, of the quantities of olive oil equivalent to the
estimated output of table olives processed and of the provisional
processing coefficients for that estimate,
— before 16 June 2002, of the quantities of olive oil equivalent to the actual
output of table olives processed and of the processing coefficientsadopted.
Article 12
This Decision is addressed to the Italian Republic.!B2000D0227 — EN — 08.08.2000 — 001.001 — 6