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of28October1999
laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 on the
commonorganisationofthemarketinbeefandvealasregardspremiumschemes
(OJ L 281, 4.11.1999, p. 30)
Amended by:
Official Journal
No page date
►M1Commission Regulation (EC) No 1042/2000 of 18 May 2000 L 118 4 19.5.2000
►M2Commission Regulation (EC) No 1900/2000 of 7 September 2000 L 228 25 8.9.2000
►M3Commission Regulation (EC) No 2733/2000 of 14 December 2000 L 316 44 15.12.2000
►M4Commission Regulation (EC) No 192/2001 of 30 January 2001 L 29 27 31.1.2001
►M5Commission Regulation (EC) No 1458/2001 of 17 July 2001 L 194 4 18.7.2001
►M6Commission Regulation (EC) No 2088/2001 of 25 October 2001 L 282 39 26.10.2001
►M7Commission Regulation (EC) No 169/2002 of 30 January 2002 L 30 21 31.1.2002
►M8Commission Regulation (EC) No 1830/2002 of 14 October 2002 L 277 15 15.10.2002
►M9Commission Regulation (EC) No 2381/2002 of 30 December 2002 L 358 119 31.12.2002
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COMMISSIONREGULATION(EC)No2342/1999
of28October 1999
laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regula-
tion (EC) No 1254/1999 on the common organisation of the
marketinbeefandvealasregardspremiumschemes
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 of 17 May
1999 on the common organisation of the market in beef and veal(1),
and in particular Articles 4(8), 5(5), 6(7), 7(5), 8(4), 9(4), 10(3),
11(5), 12(3), 13(5), 20, 23(3) and 50 thereof,
Whereas:
(1)Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 set up a new system of
premiums to replace the system set out in Council Regulation(EEC) No 805/68(
2). In order to take account of the new
arrangements, it is necessary to amend Commission Regulation(EEC) No 3886/92 of 23 December 1992 laying down detailed
rules for the application of the premium schemes provided for
in Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 on the common organi-sation of the market in beef and repealing Regulations (EEC) No1244/82 and (EEC) No 714/89(
3), as last amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1410/1999(4) and, on the occasion of the amendment,
Regulation (EEC) No 3886/92 should be recast, in the interests
of clarity;
(2)the premium and other payment schemes referred to in Articles 3
to 25 of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 should fall within thescope of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3508/92 of 27 November
1992 establishing an integrated administration and control
system for certain Community aid schemes(
5) (hereinafter
referred to as ‘the integrated system’), as last amended by Regu-lation (EC) No 1036/1999(
6). As a result, this Regulation should
be restricted to the horizontal regulation of outstanding matterswithin the framework of the said integrated system;
(3)the objectives of the regional ceiling and of the stocking densitydictate that the special premium may no longer be applied for inrespect of the same age bracket for those animals affected byapplication of these two measures. For the purposes of the desea-sonalisation premium, these animals should be deemed to have
qualified for the special premium;
(4)Article 4(3)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 lays down that
each male bovine animal should be covered, until slaughter oruntil export, by an animal passport within the meaning of
Council Regulation (EC) No 820/97 of 21 April 1997 estab-
lishing a system for the identification and registration of bovineanimals and regarding the labelling of beef and beef products(
7)
or an equivalent administrative document. Provision should bemade for the administrative document to be drawn up and issuedat national level. In order to take account of particular adminis-
trative and control conditions in the Member States, different
forms of administrative document should be allowed;
(5)Article 4(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 lays down aretention period as a condition for granting the special premium.It is therefore necessary to define and quantify that period;1999R2342 — EN — 01.01.2003 — 011.002 — 2
(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 148, 28.6.1968, p. 24.
(3) OJ L 391, 31.12.1992, p. 20.
(4) OJ L 164, 30.6.1999, p. 53.
(5) OJ L 355, 5.12.1992, p. 1.
(6) OJ L 127, 21.5.1999, p. 4.
(7) OJ L 117, 7.5.1997, p. 1.
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(6)the arrangements for granting the special premium at the time of
slaughter should be consistent with the arrangements for granting
the slaughter premium. The types of documents which are toaccompany the animal until slaughter, dispatch or export shouldbe specified. In order to take account of the specific features ofthe form of granting at the time of slaughter, the age conditionsfor steers and the method of presentation of the carcase for adult
bovine animals should be laid down;
(7)the conditions for granting the deseasonalisation premium shouldbe laid down, in accordance withth e arrangements for granting
the slaughter premium. The task of determining, on the basis ofavailable information, which Member States meet the conditionsfor applying this premium scheme should be performed by aCommission decision;
(8)the concept of suckler cow should be defined in accordance withArticle 6(7) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999. In this respect,
the same breeds should be kept as those under the previous
scheme. Moreover, the administrative rules which applied underthe old scheme may in their essentials continue to be applied, inparticular as regards the average milk yield and the additionalnational premium;
(9)witha view to implementing th e system of individual ceilings,the rules governing the determination of those ceilings and theircommunication to the producers should be laid down. In order to
strengthen the regulating effect which that system will have on
the market, provision should be made for premium rights notused by their holder during a specific period to revert to thenational reserve. Appropriate measures should also be taken toensure that rights granted free of charge from the national
reserve are used by the beneficiaries solely for the intended
purposes;
(10)the mobilisation of these rights should be encouraged, as shouldtheir allocation to producers who will benefit from them. To thisend, a minimum percentage of use of rights to the premiumshould be fixed. This percentage needs to be sufficient to avoidunderutilisation of the rights available in certain Member States,which might give rise to problems for priority producers
applying for rights through the national reserve. Member States
should therefore be authorised to raise the minimum percentageof use of rights, which should not, however, exceed 90 %;
(11)Articles 22 and 23 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 of17 May 1999 on support for rural development from theEuropean Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF)and amending and repealing certain regulations(
1) establish
extensification programmes. Provision should be made for the
suspension, during the entire period of participation in the aboveprogrammes, of the use of rights to the suckler cow premiumreleased in this way. The use of the rights released should,however, be authorised by way of exception to meet the needsfor rights to the premium as part of other agri-environmental
measures. One of the objectives of the early retirement scheme
laid down by Article 10 of that Regulation is to encourage thereplacement of elderly farmers by farmers able to improve theeconomic viability of the remaining agricultural holdings. Thereis reason to fear that certain farmers will not take part in the
early retirement programmes if this is likely to lead, in the long
term, to the loss of their suckler cow premium rights. MemberStates should therefore be able to provide for an extension ofthe total duration of temporary leasing on the basis of thoseprogrammes;
(12)the uniform implementation of the provisions relating to thetransfer and temporary leasing of rights entails the laying-downof certain administrative rules. In order to avoid excessive1999R2342 — EN — 01.01.2003 — 011.002 — 3
(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 80.
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administrative work, Member States should be permitted to fix a
minimum number of rights which may be transferred or leased.Such rules should also prevent infringement of the undertaking
provided for in Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999
to surrender, each time that rights are transferred without transferof the holding, a certain percentage of such transferred rights tothe national reserve. Moreover, provision should be made forthis temporary leasing to be limited in time so as to avoid abuse
of the transfer rules;
(13)provision should be made to allow flexibility in meeting the
administrative deadline for the transfer of rights where theproducer can prove that he has inherited rights from a deceasedproducer;
(14)the special case where a producer uses only publicly or collec-
tively owned land for grazing and transfers all his rights to
another farmer, thus ceasing production, should be deemedequivalent to the transfer of a holding;
(15)application of an administrative system of transfers in which alltransfers of rights without transfer of the holdings and temporaryleasing of rights are conducted solely via the national reserve
necessitates the establishment of a legal framework designed to
preserve economic consistency withth e system of direct trans-fers between producers. Objective criteria should be establishedfor the determination of the sum to be paid by the nationalreserve to the producer who has transferred his rights and the
sum to be paid by the producer who receives equivalent rights
from the national reserve;
(16)Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 lays down, forMember States complying with the conditions in that Article, aspecial optional scheme to manage the granting of the suckler-cow premium for heifers. The task of determining, on the basis
of available information, which Member States meet the condi-
tions for applying this special scheme should be performed by aCommission decision. The special arrangements for granting thepremium should be specified. In accordance with the overallobjective of the suckler-cow premium, this premium should bepaid to farmers whose herd of heifers is intended to restock
cow herds and not for the production of heifers for slaughter.
To this end Member States should lay down criteria, whichmay include in particular an age limit and/or breed requirements;
(17)the method for calculating the stocking density should be deter-mined. In order to simplify practical application of the stocking
density, a date should be laid down for taking the milk reference
quantity into consideration;
(18)the extensification payment should be conditional on compliancewithone, or at most two, stocking densities, at th e MemberState's choice. The stocking density for the extensificationpayment scheme should include all bovine animals aged six
months and over present on the holding. Special rules are there-
fore required for counting animals and for the producer'sstatement of participation in the scheme. Management of thisscheme may be greatly facilitated by using the computeriseddatabase referred to in Regulation (EC) No 820/97. Provisionshould therefore be made for using that database, on condition
that it offers, to the satisfaction of the Member State, adequate
assurances as to the accuracy of the data it contains for thepurposes of the extensification payment scheme;
(19)there is a risk that some producers may comply artificially withthe average stocking rates required for the grant of the extensifi-
cation payment, owing in particular to abnormally low stocking
rates during part of the year. Steps should be taken to ensure thatthe extensification payment is not granted to such producers. Tothis end it should be specified, for the sake of clarification, thatthis situation falls within the scope of Article 7 of Council Regu-lation (EC) No 1259/1999 of 17 May 1999 establishing common1999R2342 — EN — 01.01.2003 — 011.002 — 4
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rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural
policy(1) and that Member States should therefore take all the
necessary measures to apply that Article within the framework
of the extensification payment scheme;
(20)for the purposes of simplification in respect of the most exten-
sive stockfarming enterprises, it would appear desirable to
provide for an optional simplified scheme for the grant of the
extensification payment;
(21)Article 13(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 lays down, for
Member States complying with the conditions in that Article, a
special scheme for granting the extensification payment to dairycows. The procedure for determining, on the basis of availableinformation, which Member States meet the conditions forapplying this special scheme should be laid down. The specialarrangements for granting the premium should be specified. For
the sake of consistency with the general extensification payment
scheme, and in order to establish the precise number of dairycows eligible for the payment, a minimum retention periodshould be laid down for dairy cows;
(22)the application of certain provisions of Regulation (EEC,Euratom) No 1182/71 of the Council of 3 June 1971 determiningthe rules applicable to periods, dates and time limits(
2) would
artificially extend retention periods which are expressed in terms
of months by one or more days. Specific provisions should
therefore be laid down on this matter;
(23)applications should normally be submitted in respect of theslaughter premium. In the interests of simplification, the ‘live-
stock’ aid application provided for in the integrated system
should be taken to represent such an application, provided thatit contains all the elements needed to justify payment of thepremium and that the animal is slaughtered in the same MemberState or in another Member State, or exported;
(24)pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 820/97, Member States shouldhave a fully operational computerised database from 31December 1999. It should be possible to use that database to
facilitate the management of the slaughter premium, on condi-
tion that the Member State considers that the database offersadequate assurances as to the accuracy of the data it containsfor the purposes of the payment of premiums;
(25)the slaughter premium for calves is conditional on a maximumweight limit. A standard type of carcase presentation shouldtherefore be laid down, to which this maximum weight applies;
(26)Article 11(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 lays down aretention period as a condition for granting the slaughterpremium. It is therefore necessary to define and quantify thatperiod;
(27)detailed information on the national rules on, and implementa-tion of, the additional payments must be forwarded to theCommission;
(28)to ensure that farmers receive payments as quickly as possible,provision should be made for granting advances. However, inview of the application of the national or regional ceilings, stepsshould be taken to ensure that the advance does not exceed thedefinitive payment. Provision should therefore be made to allow
Member States to reduce the percentage of the advance for the
premium schemes subject to those ceilings;
(29)Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 lays down penalties for the
illegal use or holding of substances or products not authorised
by the relevant veterinary legislation. In the case of repeatedinfringements, determination of the duration of penalties should1999R2342 — EN — 01.01.2003 — 011.002 — 5
(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 113.
(2) OJ L 124, 8.6.1971, p. 1.
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be left to the Member States, which are better placed to judge
the true gravity of the offence committed;
(30)the special premium and suckler cow premium schemes are
based on the calendar year as the period of reference. It is neces-
sary to fix the date determining the elements to be taken intoconsideration for the application of the said schemes. In orderto ensure sound and consistent administration, the date of thesubmission of applications should, as a general rule, be chosen.
However, with respect to the special premium paid on slaughter,
special rules must be laid down in order to avoid carry-oversfrom one year to the next with a view to obtaining a higherpremium. As regards the slaughter premium, the date ofslaughter or of export is a better indication of whether the opera-tions concerned have actually been carried out;
(31)the exchange rate on the date of the operative event for the aids,premiums and amounts referred to in Article 5 of Council Regu-lation (EC) No 2799/98 of 15 December 1998 establishingagrimonetary arrangements for the euro(
1) is defined as the rate
on a given day. The rate applicable on the date of the operative
event should be fixed in such a way as to ensure in principle that
suchaids, premiums and amounts do not undergo any sh arp fluc-tuations on conversion into national currency due to theexchange rate on a single date. To this end, the best solutionappears to be an average of the exchange rates applicable duringthe month preceding the allocation year, calculated pro rata
temporis;
(32)for the purposes of monitoring the measures taken under the
reform of the premium schemes in the beef and veal sector, theCommission needs to be fully informed of the implementingmeasures taken by the Member States and the quantitativeresults of the application of the said schemes. Provision should
therefore be made for the Member States to be subject to certain
notification obligations. To facilitate the transmission andanalysis of the data, a consistent format for submitting that datashould be laid down;
(33)in order to facilitate the change to the new scheme, transitional
provisions are needed for the notification rules and the obliga-
tion to mark and identify animals;
(34)the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordancewith the opinion of the Management Committee for Beef andVeal,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
This Regulation lays down the detailed rules for the application of the
premium schemes and other payment schemes laid down in Articles 3to 25 of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999.1999R2342 — EN — 01.01.2003 — 011.002 — 6
(1) OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 1.
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CHAPTER I
SPECIALPREMIUM
(Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999)
Section 1
General arrangements
Article 2
Applications
1. In addition to the requirements introduced as part of the inte-
grated system of management and control provided for in Regulation(EEC) No 3508/92 (hereinafter referred to as ‘the integrated system’),each‘livestock’ aid application as referred to in Article 6(8) th ereof
(hereinafter referred to as ‘application’) shall contain:
(a) a breakdown of the number of animals by age bracket;
(b) a reference to the passports or administrative documents accompa-
nying the animals which are the subject of the application.
2. Applications may be submitted in respect only of animals which
on the date of commencement of the retention period are:
(a) in the case of bulls, not less than seven months old,
or
(b) in the case of steers, not less than seven months nor more than 19
months old in the case of the first age bracket, or at least 20months old in the case of the second age bracket.
Article 3
Grantofpremium
Animals which have not qualified for the premium either on account of
the application of the proportional reduction referred to in Article 4(4)
of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 or of application of the stockingdensity referred to in Article 12 of that Regulation may no longer bethe subject of an application for the same age bracket and shall beconsidered to have been the subject of payment of the premium.
Article 4
Passportsandadministrativedocuments
1. Where, under the conditions laid down in Article 6 of Regulation
(EC) No 820/97, the passport is not available, it shall be replaced by anational administrative document as provided for in Article 4(3)(b) ofRegulation (EC) No 1254/1999.
2. The competent authorities of the Member State shall ensure that
suchpassports or administrative documents ensure th at only onepremium is granted per animal and per age bracket.
Member States shall assist one another, as necessary, to this end.
3. Member States may provide that the national administrative docu-
ment shall take the form of:
(a) a document accompanying eachindividual animal;
(b) a comprehensive list, held by the producer, containing all the infor-
mation required for the administrative document, on condition that
the animals concerned remain, from the date on which the firstapplication is made, with the same producer until they are placedon the market for the purpose of being slaughtered;
(c) a comprehensive list, held by the central authorities, containing all
the information required for the administrative document, on condi-tion that the Member State or region of a Member State availingitself of this possibility carries out on-the-spot checks on all the1999R2342 — EN — 01.01.2003 — 011.002 — 7
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animals covered by an application, checks the movements of those
animals and makes a distinctive mark on eachanimal ch eckedwhich the producers shall be required to permit;
(d) a comprehensive list, held by the central authorities, containing all
the information required for the administrative document, on condi-tion that the Member State takes the measures necessary to ensure
that the premium is not granted twice for the same age bracket and
provides information as to the premium status of each animalimmediately upon request.
Member States which decide to avail themselves of one or more of
these possibilities shall notify the Commission thereof in due time andforward to it the relevant implementing provisions.
For the purposes of point (c), Great Britain and Northern Ireland alone
shall be considered to be regions of a Member State.
Article 5
Retentionperiod
The duration of the retention period shall be two months, starting on
the day following that on which the application is submitted.
However, Member States may provide that other starting dates may be
set by the producer on condition that they do not fall more than two
months after the day on which the application is submitted.
Article 6
Regionalceiling
1. Where the application of the proportional reduction gives a
number of eligible animals which is less than a whole number, thereshall be granted in respect of the decimal part a corresponding fractionof the unit amount of the premium. For this purpose, account shall be
taken of the first decimal place only.
2. Where Member States decide to introduce different regions or
modify the existing regions within their territory, within the meaningof Article 3(c) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999, they shall informthe Commission of their decision before 1 January of the yearconcerned, giving a definition of the region and the ceiling set. Any
subsequent change shall be notified to the Commission before 1
January of the year concerned.
Article 7
Limitsonthenumberofanimalsperholding
1. Where Member States decide to change the limit of 90 head of
cattle per holding and per age bracket or to derogate from it, they shallinform the Commission before I January of the calendar year
concerned.
Where, moreover, Member States fix a minimum number of animals
per holding, below which the proportional reduction will not beapplied, they shall inform the Commission before 1 January of thecalendar year concerned.
2. Any subsequent change in the application of paragraph 1 shall be
notified to the Commission before I January ofthe year concerned.
Section 2
Grant of the premium at the time of slaughter
Article 8
Formofgranting
1. Member States may grant the special premium at the time of
slaughter, in the case of bulls for the single age bracket, and in the1999R2342 — EN — 01.01.2003 — 011.002 — 8
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case of steers for the first or second age bracket or by combining the
granting of the premiums for the two age brackets.
2. Member States which decide to apply the system provided for in
paragraph 1 shall provide that the premium is also to be granted when
eligible animals are being dispatched to another Member State or beingexported to a third country.
3. Where the system referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 is applied, the
grant of the premium shall be subject to compliance with the provi-sions in this section and of Articles 34 and 35(1) and (2) applied
mutatis mutandis .
4. As well as containing the information referred to in Article 35(1),
aid applications shall indicate whether the animal is a bull or a steer,and shall be accompanied by a document containing the detailsrequired for the purposes of Article 4(2). This document shall be, atthe choice of the Member State:
(a) the passport or a copy of the passport where the type used consists
of several copies;
or
(b) a copy of the passport where the type of passport used consists of
one copy only which must be returned to the competent authority
for the purposes of Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 820/97; inthis case the Member State shall take steps to ensure that the infor-mation contained in the copy corresponds to the original;
or
(c) the national administrative document where the passport is not
available, under the conditions laid down in Article 6 of Regulation(EC) No 820/97.
However, Member States may suspend the application of the national
administrative document. In that case they shall take the measuresnecessary to ensure that the premium is not granted twice for thesame age bracket for animals which have been the subject of intra-Community trade.
In the case of Member States having a computerised database as
referred to in Article 3(b) of Regulation (EC) No 820/97 which
contains, to the satisfaction of the Member State, the informationnecessary to ensure that one premium only is granted for each animaland eachage bracket, th e aid application need not be accompanied bythe document referred to in the first subparagraph.
In addition, and by way of derogation from the first subparagraph,
where Member States apply the option referred to in the first subpara-
graph of Article 35(2), they shall take the measures necessary to ensurethat the producer can determine the animals for which he is requestinga special premium.
5. In the case of bulls, proof of slaughter shall specify the carcase
weight.
6. Where the animal is dispatched, proof of dispatch shall be
provided by means of a statement by the consignor indicating the
Member State of destination of the animal.
In this case, aid applications shall include:
(a) the name and address of the consignor (or an equivalent code);
(b) the identity number of the animal;
(c) a statement that the animal is not less than nine months old.
Aid applications shall be submitted before the animal leaves the terri-
tory of the Member State concerned and proof of dispatch shall besubmitted within three months of the animals leaving the territory ofthe Member State concerned.1999R2342 — EN — 01.01.2003 — 011.002 — 9
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Article 9
Detailsofthegrantsystem
1.►M1Nothwithstanding Article 5, the premium shall be paid to
producers who have kept animals for a minimum retention period oftwo months ending less that one month before slaughter or consign-
ment or ending less than two months before export. ◄
In the case of steers, payment of the premium is subject to the
following rules:
(a) the premium in respect of the first age bracket shall be paid only if
the producer has kept the animal for a period of not less than twomonths between the time when the animal was not less than sevenmonths old and the time when it was less than 22 months old;
(b) the premium in respect of the second age bracket may be paid only
if the producer has kept the animal aged not less than 20 monthsfor a period of not less than two months;
(c) the premiums in respect of the two age brackets may be paid
together only if the producer has kept the animal for not less than
four consecutive months in compliance with the age requirements
laid down in points (a) and (b);
(d) the premium in respect of the second age bracket only may be paid
if the animal was dispatched from another Member State when it
had reached 19 months.
2. In the context of calculating the stocking density referred to in
Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999, eachanimal wh ichis
the subject of a combined application for the two age brackets shallbe taken into consideration twice.
3. The carcase weight shall be established on the basis of a carcase
which meets the requirements set out in Article 2 of Council Regula-tion (EEC) No 1208/81(
1).
Where the carcase presentation differs from this definition, the correc-
tive factors shown in the Annex to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
563/82(2) shall apply.
Where slaughter takes place in a slaughterhouse which is not subject to
the application of the Community grading scale for carcases of adultbovine animals, Member States may permit the weight to be estab-lished on the basis of the live weight of the slaughtered animal. Insuch cases the carcase weight shall be considered to be equal to orgreater than 185 kilograms if the live weight of the slaughtered animal
was equal to or greater than 340 kilograms.
Article 10
Notification
Member States shall notify the Commission before the start of the
calendar year concerned of their decision to apply the system of
granting premiums referred to in this section and the relevant proce-dures.1999R2342 — EN — 01.01.2003 — 011.002 — 10
(1) OJ L 123, 7.5.1981, p. 3.
(2) OJ L 67, 11.3.1982, p. 23.
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CHAPTER II
DESEASONALISATIONPREMIUM
(Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999)
Article 11
Applicationofthepremium
The Commission shall decide, by 1 August at the latest of each
calendar year, in which Member States the deseasonalisation premium
may be granted for the following calendar year.
Member States shall inform the Commission by 1 January of the
calendar year in which the premium is granted should they decide toapply Article 5(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999.
Article 12
Entitlementtothepremium
1. The premium may be granted in respect only of steers which have
already received the special premium, or are considered to have
received the special premium pursuant to Article 3, in a Member State
applying the deseasonalisation premium and which are slaughtered in aMember State applying the deseasonalisation premium.
2. The premium may be granted only to the producer who last held
the animal prior to slaughter.
Article 13
Applications
1. The producer shall submit an application to the competent
authority of the Member State in whose territory the holding is situ-
ated.
2. The application shall be drawn up in accordance with Articles
8(4) and 35, applied mutatis mutandis .
Member States shall take the measures necessary to verify that the
special premium has been granted and shall carry out regular, unan-nounced checks on the accuracy of the certificates referred to inArticle 35.
CHAPTER III
SUCKLERCOWPREMIUM
(Articles 6 to 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999)
Section 1
General arrangements
Article 14
Cowsbelongingtoameatbreed
Cows belonging to the bovine breeds set out in Annex I to this Regula-
tion shall not be considered to be cows belonging to a meat breed asreferred to in Articles 3(f) and 10(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999.
Article 15
Maximumindividualreference quantity
1. Where Member States decide to change the maximum individual
reference quantity of 120000 kilograms referred to in Article 6(2)(b) ofRegulation (EC) No 1254/1999 or to derogate from it, they shallinform the Commission before 1 January of the calendar yearconcerned.1999R2342 — EN — 01.01.2003 — 011.002 — 11
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2. Any subsequent change in the application of paragraph 1 shall be
notified to the Commission before 1 January of the year concerned.
Article 16
Retentionperiod
The six-month retention period referred to in Article 6(2) of Regulation
(EC) No 1254/1999 shall start on the day following that on which the
application is submitted.
Article 17
Applications
1. In addition to the requirements introduced as part of the inte-
grated system, where an application is made for the premium pursuantto Article 6(2)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999, the ‘livestock’ aidapplication or, at the choice of the Member State, the ‘area’ aid appli-cation referred to in Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 3508/92
(hereinafter referred to as ‘application’) shall contain:
(a) a statement setting out the individual reference quantity of milk
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M1available ◄to the producer on 31 March preceding the
beginning of the 12-month period of application of the additionallevy scheme starting in the calendar year concerned; where thisquantity is unknown on the date on which the application is
submitted, it shall be notified to the competent authority at the
earliest opportunity; and
(b) an undertaking by the producer not to increase his individual refer-
ence quantity above the quantitative limit laid down in Article
6(2)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 during the 12-month
period starting on the date on which the application is submitted.
However, point (b) shall not apply if the Member State has abolished
the quantitative limit.
2. Applications shall be submitted within an overall period of six
months during a calendar year, to be determined by the Member State.
Member States may provide for separate periods for submitting appli-
cations within this overall period.
Article 18
Average milkyield
The average milk yield shall be calculated on the basis of the average
yields set out in Annex II. However, for this calculation, Member
States may use a document recognised by them certifying the produ-
cer's dairy herd's average yield.
Article 19
Additionalnationalpremium
1. An additional national premium may be granted only to a
producer who, in respect of the same calendar year, receives thesuckler cow premium.
It shall be granted only within the limit of the number of animals quali-
fying for this premium, if appropriate after application of the
proportional reduction laid down in the third subparagraph of Article
10(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999.
2. Member States may lay down additional conditions for the grant
of the additional premium. They shall inform the Commission thereofin good time before these conditions are brought into effect.
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the third subparagraph of Article 6(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/
1999.
Section 2
Ceilings, reserves, transfers
Article 20
Individualceiling
1. Member States shall determine an individual ceiling per producer
under the conditions laid down in Article 7(1), (2) and (3) of Regula-
tion (EC) No 1254/1999.
2. Each producer shall be informed of the amount of his individual
ceiling as soon as possible and at the latest one week before the start ofthe period for submitting applications in respect of 2000.
Article 21
Notification
1. Member States shall notify the Commission by 1 March 2000 at
the latest of the procedures used to implement the reduction of indivi-dual ceilings in accordance withArticle 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No1254/1999, as well as the total number of rights granted to producers
and the number of rights allocated to the reserve.
2. Member States shall notify the Commission by 1 March 2000 at
the latest of the method of calculating the reduction in accordance withthe second subparagraph of Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 and where applicable of the measures taken under Article 8(2)(a)and, before 1 January eachyear, of any amendments.
3. Using the table set out in Annex IV, Member States shall notify
the Commission at the latest by 1 March, provisionally, and by 31 July,
definitively, for eachcalendar year of:
(a) the number of premium rights returned without compensatory
payment to the national reserve following transfers of rightswithout transfers of holdings during the preceding calendar year;
(b) the number of unused premium rights as referred to in Article 23(2)
transferred to the national reserve during the preceding calendaryear,
(c) the number of rights granted under Article 9(3) of Regulation (EC)
No 1254/1999 during the preceding calendar year.
Article 22
Rightsobtainedfree ofcharge
Except in duly justified exceptional cases, where a producer has
obtained premium rights free of charge from the national reserve he
shall not be authorised to transfer and/or temporarily lease his rightsduring the three following calendar years
Article 23
Useofrights
1. A producer holding rights may make use of them by availing
himself of those rights and/or leasing those rights to another producer.
2. Where a producer has not made use of at least the minimum
percentage of his rights, fixed in accordance with paragraph 4, duringeach calendar year, the part not used shall be transferred to the nationalreserve, except:
— in the case of a producer holding a maximum of seven premium
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during the last calendar year shall be transferred to the national
reserve,
— in the case of a producer participating in an extensification
programme recognised by the Commission,
— in the case of a producer participating in an early retirement scheme
recognised by the Commission in which the transfer and/ortemporary leasing of rights is not obligatory,
or
— in exceptional and duly justified cases.
3. Temporary leasing shall be only in respect of whole calendar
years and shall involve at least the minimum number of animalsprovided for in Article 24(1). At the end of each period of temporary
leasing, which may not exceed three consecutive years, a producer
shall, except in the event of a transfer of rights, recover all his rightsfor himself, for at least two consecutive calendar years. If the producerdoes not avail himself of at least the minimum percentage of his rights,fixed in accordance with paragraph 4, during each of the two years, theMember State shall, except in exceptional and duly justified cases,
withdraw and return annually to the national reserve that part of the
rights not used by the producer.
However, in the case of producers participating in early retirement
schemes recognised by the Commission, Member States may providefor the total duration of the temporary leasing on the basis of suchschemes to be increased.
Producers who have undertaken to participate in an extensification
programme in accordance withth e measure referred to in Article
2(1)(c) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2078/92(
1) or in an extensifi-
cation programme in accordance withArticles 22 and 23 of Regulation(EC) No 1257/1999 shall not be authorised to temporarily lease and/orto transfer their rights throughout the period of that participation.However, this provision shall not apply in cases where the programme
permits the transfer and/or temporary leasing of rights to producers
whose participation in the measures other than those referred to in thissubparagraph requires the acquisition of rights.
4. The minimum percentage of use of rights to the premium shall be
70 %.
However, the Member States may raise this percentage to 90 %.The Member States shall inform the Commission in advance of the
percentage that they intend to apply.
Article 24
Transferofrightsandtemporaryleasing
1. Member States may lay down, on the basis of their production
structures, a minimum number of premium rights which may be the
subject of a partial transfer not involving the transfer of a holding.
This minimum may not exceed five premium rights.
2. Transfers of premium rights and temporary leasing of such rights
shall be effective only after they have been notified jointly to thecompetent authorities of the Member State by the producer transferringand/or leasing the rights and by the producer receiving the rights.
Such notification shall take place within a deadline set by the Member
State and not later than the date on which the producer receiving the
rights submits his premium application, except in those cases wherethe transfer of rights takes effect through an inheritance. In that case,the producer who receives the rights shall be in a position to furnishappropriate legal documents to prove that he or she is the beneficiaryof the deceased producer.1999R2342 — EN — 01.01.2003 — 011.002 — 14
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Article 25
Changeofindividualceiling
In the case of transfers or temporary leasing of premium rights,
Member States shall set the new individual ceiling and shall notify theproducers concerned of the number of premium rights to which theyare entitled not later than 60 days from the last day of the period
during which the producer submitted his application.
The first paragraph shall not apply in the case where the transfer takes
effect through an inheritance.
Article 26
Producerswhodonotownthelandthattheyfarm
Producers farming only public land or collectively owned land who
decide to discontinue the farming of such land and to transfer all theirrights to another producer shall be treated in the same way as produ-
cers selling or transferring their holdings. In all other cases such
producers shall be treated in the same way as producers transferringtheir premium rights only.
Article 27
Transferthroughthenationalreserve
Where Member States provide that the transfer of rights without
transfer of the holding is to take place through the national reserve inaccordance withArticle 8(2)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999, th eyshall apply national provisions analogous to those set out in Articles 23
to 26. In addition, in this event:
— Member States may provide that temporary leasing is to take place
through the national reserve;
— when premium rights are transferred, or temporarily leased in cases
where the first indent is applied, transfers to the reserve shall beeffective only after they have been notified by the competent autho-rities of the Member State to the producer transferring and/orleasing the rights, and transfers from the reserve to another
producer shall be effective only after they have been notified to
that producer by these authorities.
In addition, suchprovisions must ensure th at a payment will be made
by the Member State for that part of the rights other than the partreferred to in the second subparagraph of Article 8(1) of Regulation
(EC) No 1254/1999 corresponding to that which would have resulted
from a direct transfer between producers, account being taken in parti-cular of the trend of production in the Member State concerned. Thispayment shall be equal to the payment which will be claimed fromproducers receiving equivalent rights from the national reserve.
Article 28
Partial rights
1. Where calculations to be made pursuant to the provisions of this
Section produce numbers which are not whole numbers, only the first
decimal place shall be taken into account.
2. Where application of the provisions of this Section results in
partial premium rights, either for producers or the national reserve,these partial rights shall be added up.
3. Where a producer holds a partial right, this partial right shall only
confer entitlement to the corresponding fraction of the unit amount ofthe premium and, where applicable, of the additional national premiumreferred to in Article 19 and of the extensification payment referred toin Article 32.1999R2342 — EN — 01.01.2003 — 011.002 — 15
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Article 29
Specialschemeforheifers
1. The Commission shall decide, by 1 November 1999 at the latest,
which Member States meet the conditions laid down in Article 10(1) ofRegulation (EC) No 1254/1999.
The Member States concerned shall inform the Commission, before 1
January 2000, whether or not they intend to apply the scheme laid
down in Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 (hereinafter
referred to as ‘the special scheme’) and where applicable shall commu-nicate the specific national ceiling that they have determined. Anysubsequent modification shall be notified to the Commission before 1January of the year concerned.
2. Member States applying the special scheme shall lay down
criteria to ensure that the premium is paid to farmers whose herd of
heifers is intended to restock cow herds. These criteria may include in
particular an age limit and/or breed requirements.
Member States shall inform the Commission before 1 January of the
year concerned of the criteria adopted. Any subsequent modificationshall be notified to the Commission before 1 January of the yearconcerned.
3. Where the application of the proportional reduction referred to in
the third subparagraph of Article 10(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 gives a number of eligible animals which is less than a whole
number, there shall be granted in respect of the decimal part a corre-
sponding fraction of the unit amount of the premium and, whereapplicable, of the additional national premium referred to in Article19 and of the extensification payment referred to in Article 32. Forthis purpose account shall be taken of the first decimal place only.
4. In Member States applying the special scheme, the requirement
laid down in Article 6(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 concerning
the minimum number of animals to be held shall be met in full either
by Buckler cows if the producer has lodged an application for Bucklercows or by heifers if the producer has lodged an application for heifers.
5. The provisions of Articles 20 to 28 shall not apply within this
special scheme.
Article 29a
Rounding-offofanimalnumbers
If the calculation of the minimum and maximum number of heifers
expressed as a percentage as laid down respectively in the first, secondand third subparagraphs of Article 6(2) and in the fourth subparagraphof Article 10(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 produces a resultwhich is not a whole number, that number shall be rounded down to
the nearest whole number if it is less than 0,5 and up to the nearest
whole number if it is 0,5 or more.
Notwithstanding the first paragraph, for the purposes of applying the
arrangements provided for in Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 in 2003, where a premium application involves a number equal totwo animals the number of heifers that may benefit from the premiumshall be fixed at one heifer.1999R2342 — EN — 01.01.2003 — 011.002 — 16
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CHAPTER IV
PROVISIONS COMMON TO THE SPECIAL PREMIUM AND THE
SUCKLERCOWPREMIUM
Article 30
Applications
1. Member States may, for administrative reasons, provide that
applications shall be for a minimum number of animals, providingthat this number does not exceed three.
2. Without prejudice to Articles 17(2) and 32(7), Member States
may determine the periods and dates for submission of premium appli-cations and the number of applications that producers may submit perpremium scheme and calendar year.
Article 31
Stockingdensity
1. For each producer who, in respect of the same calendar year,
submits
— the ‘area’ aid application referred to in Article 6(1) of Regulation
(EEC) No 3508/92,
and
— at least one application for a special premium or a suckler cow
premium,
the competent authorities shall establish the number of LUs (livestock
units) corresponding to the number of animals for which a special
premium or suckler cow premium may be granted, taking account of
the forage area of his holding.
2. In establishing the stocking density referred to in Article 12 of
Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999, the following procedure shall apply:
(a) account shall be taken of the individual reference quantity of milk
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beginning of the period of 12 months of application of the addi-tional levy scheme beginning in the calendar year concerned;
(b) the number of dairy cows needed to produce this reference quantity
shall be calculated in accordance with Article 18 of this Regula-tion.
3. In determining the number of animals eligible for a premium:
(a) the number of hectares determined in accordance with the rules laid
down in the integrated system shall be multiplied by the stockingdensity referred to in Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999;
(b) the number of LUs corresponding to the number of dairy cows
needed to produce the reference quantity of milk
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figure thus obtained;
(c) the number of LUs corresponding to the number of sheep and/or
goats for which a premium application is submitted shall bededucted from the figure thus obtained.
The final figure thus obtained shall correspond to the maximum
number of LUs for which the special premium and the Buckler cow
premium may be granted.
4. The Member States shall inform each producer concerned of the
stocking density established for him and of the resultant number ofLUs for which a premium may be granted.1999R2342 — EN — 01.01.2003 — 011.002 — 17
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Article 32
Extensificationpayment
1. To qualify for the extensification payment, producers must indi-
cate on the ‘area’ aid application that they wish to participate in theextensification payment scheme.
2. Animals which are considered to have received the special
premium within the meaning of Article 3 shall not qualify for the
extensification payment.
3. In order to check that the total number of animals calculated in
accordance withArticle 13(3)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999meets the stocking density requirements) laid down in Article 13(2) ofthat Regulation, Member States shall determine each year at least five
census dates for the animals and shall inform the Commission thereof.
Except in those cases where Member States decide that the census
dates may be any day of the year;
— the census dates shall be distributed at random in such a way as to
be representative of the entire year, being changed annually,
and
— eachcensus date sh all be determined a posteriori and shall be noti-
fied to the producer at the earliest two weeks after it has beendetermined.
On these dates the animals shall be counted in accordance with one of
the following methods, at the choice of the Member State:
— Member States shall ask each pcoducer to declare, on the basis of
his farm register, prior to a date to be determined by the Member
State, the number of LUs or the number of animals of each of the
two categories of male animals referred to in Annex III to Regula-tion (EC) No 1254/1999,
or
— Member States witha computerised database as referred to in
Article 3(b) of Regulation (EC) No 820/97 shall use that databaseto determine the number of LUs on condition that the databaseoffers, to the satisfaction of the Member State, adequate assurances
as to the accuracy of the data it contains for the purposes of the
extensification payment scheme.
The number of LUs used to determine whether the producer is
complying withth e stocking density requirements laid down in Article13(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 shall be the arithmetic average
of the numbers of LUs counted on the census dates plus the number of
LUs corresponding to the sheep and goats for which premium applica-tions have been submitted for the same calendar year.
However, where Member States decide that the census dates may be
any day of the year, they may provide that the numbers referred to in
(a) and (b) shall be calculated pro rata temporis for the period on
which the animals are present on the holding.
Member States shall take the measures necessary to apply Article 7 of
Regulation (EC) No 1259/1999 in the case of producers who, by meansof abnormally low stocking rates during part of the year, artificially
create the conditions required by Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No
1254/1999.
4. By way of derogation from paragraph3, Member States may give
producers the option of choosing a simplified scheme.
In that case, the producer must indicate on the ‘area’ aid application:
(a) that he declares that he has complied each day with the maximum
stocking density Iaid down in Article 13 of Regulation (EC) No1254/1999 up to the date of his ‘area’ aid application,
and
(b) that he undertakes to comply each day with that stocking density
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Where the Member State has chosen to apply the second subparagraph
of Article 13(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999, the producer shallspecify on his application which of the two maximum stocking densi-
ties he is observing. The producer may alter this choice at the latest
before the announcement of an on-the-spot check on the number ofhis animals.
The producer may notify the competent authority of the cancellation of
his undertaking at the latest before the announcement of an on-the-spotcheck on the number of his animals. In that case he shall not qualify
for the extensification payment.
The declaration and undertaking referred to in this paragraph shall be
subject to the control and penalty provisions provided for under theintegrated system.
5. Member States shall notify the Commission by 1 January 2000 of
the definition of ‘pasture’ used for the purposes of Article 13(3)(c) ofRegulation (EC) No 1254/1999. Any subsequent change shall be noti-fied to the Commission before 1 January of the year concerned.
6. The Commission shall decide, by 1 November 1999 at the latest,
which Member States meet the conditions laid down in Article 13(4) of
Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999.
For the purposes of that paragraph, ‘producer in mountain area’ means
any producer:
— whose farm is situated in a mountain area,
or
— at least 50 % of whose forage area is in a mountain area.
7. Without prejudice to paragraph 1, producers who wish to qualify
for the extensification payment under paragraph 6 shall state on the‘livestock’ aid application that they are applying for the extensificationpayment. They shall keep, for at least six consecutive months startingon the date on which the application is submitted, a number of dairy
cows at least equal to the number of dairy cows for which the extensi-
fication payment has been applied for. This six-month retention periodshall start on the day following that on which the application issubmitted.
Applications shall be submitted within an overall period of six months
during a calendar year, to be determined by the Member State.
Member States may provide for separate submission periods within this
overall period.
8. The number of dairy cows For which the extensification payment
is granted to a producer may not exceed either of the following two
figures:
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March preceding the beginning of the 12-month period of applica-tion of the additional levy scheme beginning in the calendar yearconcerned; this number of cows shall be calculated using the
average milk yield defined in Annex II;
(b) the total number of cows on the holding, determined in accordance
withparagraph3, less th e number of suckler cows corresponding tothe individual ceiling.
9. Where Member States choose to apply, or to cease to apply, the
option laid down in the second subparagraph of Article 13(2) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1254/1999, they shall inform the Commission of their
decision before 1 January of the calendar year concerned.
10. For the purpose of calculating the stocking density pursuant to
this Article, account shall be taken of the first two decimal places only.
11. In the event that the competent veterinary authorities decide that
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be multiplied by the coefficient 0,8 for the purpose of applying this
Article.
This measure shall be restricted to the period, plus 20 days, within
which the abovementioned decision applies, provided that the producer
has informed the competent authority, by writing within 10 workingdays of the decision, of the presence of the animals concerned andhas taken all the measures necessary to prevent and/or limit the occur-rence of the epizootic.
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2001◄inclusive, for the purposes of applying this Article the number
of LUs recorded on the holding shall be multiplied by a coefficient of0,8.
This measure shall apply if it can be demonstrated to the satisfaction of
the Member State that, because of the exceptional market situation, the
animals are being kept longer on the holding than is normally the case.
Article 33
Determination ofretentionperiods
The last day of the retention periods referred to in Articles 5, 9(1), 16,
32(7) and 37 shall be the day, whether a working day or not, precedingthe day which bears the same number as the starting day for the period.
CHAPTER V
SLAUGHTERPREMIUM
(Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999)
Article 34
Statementofparticipation
Member States may provide that in order to qualify for the premium
for a given calendar year each producer shall, before or at the same
time as making the first application for that calendar year, submit a
statement of participation.
However, where the producer makes no changes to the statement of
participation, the Member State may accept that the previous statementremains valid.
Article 35
Applications
1. ‘Livestock’ aid applications shall include the information needed
for payment of the slaughter premium, in particular the date of birth of
the animal in the case of animals born after 1 January 1998.
‘Livestock’ aid applications shall be submitted within a period to be
determined by the Member State which may not exceed six monthsfollowing slaughter of the animal or, where the animal is exported,after the date on which it leaves Community customs territory, and
shall expire no later than the end of February of the following year
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bear the name and address of the producer who is liable to qualify for
the premium.
In addition to the requirements introduced as part of the integrated
system, eachapplication sh all contain:
(a) in cases where the grant is made at the time of slaughter, a certifi-
cate from the slaughterhouse or any document produced orendorsed by the slaughterhouse containing at least the same infor-mation, showing:
(i) the name and address of the slaughterhouse (or an equivalent
code);
(ii) the date of slaughter and the identity and slaughter numbers of
the animal;
(iii) in the case of calves, the carcase weight (save where Article
36(4) applies);
(b) in cases where the animal is exported to a third country:
(i) the name and address of the exporter (or an equivalent code),
(ii) the identity number of the animal,
(iii) the export declaration stating the age of the animal for animals
born after 1 January 1998 and, in the case of calves, savewhere Article 36(4) applies, the live weight, which may not
exceed 290 kilograms;
(iv) proof that the animal has left Community customs territory,
shown in the same manner as for an export refund.
However, Member States may provide that the information referred to
in (a) and (b) shall be forwarded via a body or bodies approved by theMember State, which may use information technology.
Member States shall carry out regular, unannounced checks on the
accuracy of the certificates or documents issued and, where appro-priate, the information referred to in the fifth subparagraph.
2. By way of derogation from paragraph1, Member States witha
computerised database as referred to in Article 3(b) of Regulation
(EC) No 820/97 may provide that information on the slaughter ofanimals forwarded to the competent authority by slaughterhouses shallbe regarded as applications for slaughter premiums on behalf of theproducers, on condition that the database offers, to the satisfaction of
the Member State, adequate assurances as to the accuracy of the data
it contains for the purposes of the slaughter-premium scheme and,where applicable, the payment on slaughter of the special premiumand/or the additional payments if these are paid on slaughter, and/orthe deseasonalisation premium.
However, Member States may provide that applications shall be
submitted. In such a case they may determine the type of informationthat shall accompany the application.
Member States choosing to apply this paragraph shall inform the
Commission thereof before 1 January 2000. They shall inform theCommission of any subsequent change before it is implemented.
Member States shall ensure that the data made available to the paying
agency includes all the information needed to pay the premium, inparticular:
(a) the types and quantities of animals as referred to in Article 11(1) of
Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 slaughtered during the yearconcerned;
(b) information regarding compliance withth e age limits and carcase
weight of the animals referred to in that Article and with the reten-tion period referred to in Article 37;
(c) where applicable, the information needed to pay the special
premium at the time of slaughter and/or the additional payments if
these are paid on slaughter, and/or the deseasonalisation premium.
3. For animals which have been the subject of intra-Community
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Member State where slaughter was carried out chose to apply the dero-
gation laid down in paragraph 2, the slaughterhouse shall issue thedocument referred to in point (a) of the fourth subparagraph of para-
graph1.
However, where their data transfer systems are compatible, two
Member States may agree to apply the system described in paragraph2.
Member States shall assist one another to ensure effective controls on
the authenticity of documents submitted and/or the accuracy of the dataexchanged. To that end the Member State where payment is made shallforward regularly to the Member State where slaughter takes place a
summary, grouped by slaughterhouse, of the slaughter certificates (or
information in place thereof] received from the latter Member State.
Article 36
Weightandpresentationofcarcases
1. For the purposes of Article 11(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/
1999, veal carcases shall be presented after skinning, evisceration and
bleeding, without the head or the feet but with the liver, kidneys and
kidney fat.
2. The weight to be taken into consideration shall be the weight of
the carcase after chilling, or the warm weight of the carcase establishedas soon as possible after slaughter, reduced by 2 %.
3. Where carcases are presented without the liver, kidneys and/or
kidney fat, their weight shall be increased by:
(a) 3,5 kilograms for the liver;
(b) 0,5 kilograms for the kidneys;
(c) 3,5 kilograms for the kidney fat.
4. Member States may provide that where a calf is less than five
months old at the time of slaughter or export, the weight requirement
referred to in Article 11(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 shall
be deemed to have been met.
Where the carcase weight cannot be established in the slaughterhouse,
the above weight requirement shall be deemed to have been met if thelive weight does not exceed 290 kilograms.
Article 37
Premium beneficiary
1. The premium shall be paid to producers who have held the
animals for a minimum retention period of two months ending lessthan one month before slaughter or ending less than two months beforeexport.
2. In the case of calves slaughtered before the age of three months,
the retention period shall be one month.
Article 38
Nationalceilings
1. The national ceilings referred to in Article 11(1) and (3) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1254/1999 are shown in Annex III.
2. Where the application of the proportional reduction gives a
number of eligible animals which is less than a whole number, thereshall be granted in respect of the decimal part a corresponding fractionof the unit amount of the premium. For this purpose account shall betaken of the first decimal place only.1999R2342 — EN — 01.01.2003 — 011.002 — 22
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CHAPTER VI
ADDITIONALPAYMENTS
(Articles 14 to 20 of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999)
Article 39
Nationalarrangements
The detailed information to be forwarded to the Commission under
Article 18 of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 shall include the
following:
1. headage payments (where applicable):
(a) indicative amounts per head for each category of animal, and
grant arrangements;
(b) an indicative forecast of total expenditure for eachcategory of
animal (specifying whether these payments will be made in theform of a supplement to the slaughter premium) and of the
number of animals concerned;
(c) specific stocking density requirements (save in the case of
payments in the form of a supplement to the slaughterpremium);
(d) the headage limit on male bovines per holding (where applic-
able),
(e) other information on the rules of application.
The categories of animal referred to in points (a) and (b) are: bulls,
steers, suckler cows, dairy cows, heifers qualifying for the sucklercow premium, and other heifers, or any subgroup of animals deter-
mined by the Member State and included in those categories;
2. area payments (where necessary):
(a) calculation of regional base areas,
(b) indicative amounts per hectare;
(c) an indicative forecast of total expenditure and of the number of
hectares concerned;
(d) other information on the rules of application.
Article 40
Detailedreport
The detailed report to be forwarded to the Commission under Article
19 of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 shall include the same elementsas those laid down in Article 39, updated and supplemented.
It shall also include:
(a) a summary of the difficulties encountered in implementing the
additional payments scheme;
(b) an evaluation of the effectiveness of this scheme;
(c) possibly some proposals on the future development of this scheme.
CHAPTER VII
GENERALPROVISIONS
Article 41
Paymentofadvances
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spot checks, the competent authority shall pay to the producer, for thenumber of animals deemed to be eligible, an advance equal to 60 % ofthe special premium, the suckler cow premium and the slaughterpremium.1999R2342 — EN — 01.01.2003 — 011.002 — 23
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In the case of the special premium, the special scheme for heifers
referred to in Article 29 and/or the slaughter premium, the advancepercentage may be reduced by the Member States but may not be less
than 40 %.
In addition, on the basis of administrative and on-the-spot checks,
Member States may decide to pay producers an advance of a maximum60 % on the amount of the additional payments referred to in Article14 Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999.
The advance may not be paid before 16 October of the calendar year in
respect of which the premium is applied for or the additional payment
is granted.
However, as regards the calendar years 2000, 2001 and 2002, the
advance on the special premium, the suckler cow premium, theslaughter premium and the additional payments may be paid at a rateof up to 80 % of the amount of those premiums or of those payments.
2. The definitive payment of the premium or the additional payment
shall be an amount equal to the difference between the advancepayment and the amount of the premium or the additional payment towhich the producer is entitled.
Article 42
Allocationyear
The date of submission of the application shall constitute the operative
event for determining the year to which animals covered by the specialpremium, suckler cow premium, deseasonalisation premium and exten-sification payment schemes are allocated and the number of LUs to be
used for calculating the stocking density.
However, if the special premium is granted in accordance with one of
the options provided for in Article 8:
— where the animal was slaughtered or exported no later than 31
December, and
— where the premium application for that animal is submitted after
that date,
the amount of the premium applicable shall be that in force on 31
December of the year in which slaughter or export took place.
Notwithstanding the preceding paragraphs and Article 35(1), where a
special premium is granted under one of the options provided for inArticle 8, if the animal is slaughtered between 1 January and 28
February 2001 and if the premium application for that animal is lodged
no later than 15 March 2001 in respect of the 2000 calendar year, atthe producer's request the allocation year shall be 2000 and the amountof the premium shall be that valid on 31 December 2000.
As regards the slaughter premium, for the purposes of applying the rate
of aid and calculating the proportional reduction in accordance withArticle 38, the allocation year shall be the year of slaughter or export.
Article 43
Conversionintonationalcurrency
Conversion into national currency of premium amounts, the extensifi-
cation payment and the additional payments shall be carried out inaccordance withth e average, calculated pro rata temporis ,o ft he
exchange rates applicable in the month of December preceding theallocation year determined in accordance withArticle 42. ►
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Article 44
Penalties for the illegal use or holding of certain substances or
products
In the event of repeated infringements through the illegal use or
holding of substances or products not authorised by the relevant
Community regulations in the veterinary sector, Member States shalldetermine, in the light of the seriousness of the infringement, the lengthof the exclusion from the aid schemes pursuant to the second subpara-graphof Article 23(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999.
Article 44a
Determination oftheindividualreference quantityofmilk
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the case of milk producers who release or take over all or part of indi-
vidual reference quantities witheffect on 31 Marchor 1 Aprilrespectively in accordance withArticle 8(b) of Regulation (EEC) No3950/92 or pursuant to national provisions adopted for the implementa-tion of Article 7, Article 8(a), (d) and (e) or Article 8a of thatRegulation, the date determining:
— the maximum individual reference quantity of milk available to
qualify for the suckler-cow premium and the maximum number ofsuckler cows,
— grants of additional payments per head for dairy cows,
— the number of dairy cows with a view to the granting of the exten-
sification payment for dairy cows kept on holdings located inmountain areas, and
— the stocking density,
shall be 1 April.
Article 45
Nationalimplementing measures
Member States shall adopt all suitable measures necessary to ensure
that this Regulation is applied properly. They shall inform the Commis-sion thereof.
Article 46
Notification
1. From 1 July 2000 onwards, the Member States shall notify the
Commission annually by 15 September at the latest (for information
relating to the first six months of the current year) and 1 March (for
information relating to the second six months of the previous year) of:
(a) the number of male bovines in respect of which the special
premium has been applied for, broken down by:
— age bracket,
— type of animal (bull or steer);
(b) the number of cows in respect of which the suckler cow premium
has been applied for, broken down according to the schemes
referred to in Article 6(2)(a) and (b) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999;
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or calf) and indicating whether the animals were slaughtered or
exported;
(d) the number of animals for which the deseasonalisation premium
was actually granted, broken down according to whether they bene-
fited from the first or second tranche of the special premium, and
the number of livestock producers corresponding to each of the twoabovementioned age brackets.
2. From 2001 onwards, the Member States shall notify the Commis-
sion by 31 July at the latest in each year and for the preceding calendaryear of:
(a) the number of male bovines for which the special premium was
actually granted, broken down by:
— age bracket,
— type of animal (bull or steer),
and indicating:— the grant, where applicable, of the extensification payment
(broken down according to the limits laid down in Article
13(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999), and the number of
livestock producers concerned, shown separately in accordancewithth ose limits,
— the number of animals broken down by age bracket for which
the special premium was not granted in respect of the preceding
calendar year due to the application of the regional ceiling;
(b) the number of cows and heifers for which the suckler cow premium
was actually granted, broken down according to the schemesreferred to in Article 6(2)(a) and (b) of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999, and indicating the grant, where applicable, of the extensifica-tion payment (broken down according to the limits laid down in
Article 13(2) of that Regulation), as well as the number of produ-
cers concerned in the case of each scheme;
(c) the number of dairy cows for which the extensification payment
was actually granted;
(d) the number of animals for which the premium was not granted in
respect of the preceding calendar year due to application of thespecific national ceiling for heifers;
(e) where applicable, the grant of any national premium in addition to
the suckler cow premium, indicating:
— the conditions for granting the premium,
and
— the amount granted per animal;
(f) the number of animals for which the premium not affected by
stocking density was actually granted, and the number of producers
concerned;
(g) the number of animals for which the slaughter premium was actu-
ally granted, broken down by type of animal (adult bovine or calf)and indicating whether the aid was granted on slaughter or onexport, as well as, for each of these subdivisions, the number ofproducers concerned.
3. The Member States shall notify the Commission annually by 31
July at the latest from 2001 of the number of animals, broken downby type of animal, in respect of which the slaughter premium has notbeen granted in respect of the preceding calendar year due to the appli-
cation of national ceilings.
4. Member States shall communicate the details specified in this
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CHAPTER VIII
TRANSITIONALANDFINALPROVISIONS
Article 47
Transitionalprovisions
1. In accordance withArticle 50 of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999,
in order to facilitate the transition from the provisions of Regulation
(EEC) No 805/68 to Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999, notifications to
the Commission in respect of 1999 shall be made in accordance withthe same procedure as that laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 3886/92.
2. The requirement to identify and register animals laid down in
Article 21 of Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 shall apply, for animalsborn before 1 January 1998, in accordance withth e procedure laid
down in Council Directive 92/102/EEC(
1), save in the case of animals
which are the subject of infra-Community trade.
Article 48
Repeal
Regulation (EEC) No 3886/92 is repealed witheffect from 1 January
2000.
It shall remain applicable to applications submitted by 31 December
1999 at the latest.
References to the repeated Regulation shall be construed as references
to this Regulation.
Article 49
Entryintoforce
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of
its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
It shall apply from 1 January 2000, except for the provisions relating to
notifications or decisions laid down in Articles 10, 11, 15, 21(2), 23(4),
29(1) and (2), 32(5), (6) and (9), 35(2) and 39, which shall apply on
entry into force of this Regulation.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable
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ANNEX I
LISTOFBOVINEBREEDSREFERREDTOINARTICLE14
— Angler Rotvieh(Angeln) — Rød dansk mælkerace (RMD)
— Ayrshire
— Armoricaine
— Bretonne Pie-noire— Fries-Hollands (FH), Française frisonne pie noire (FFPN), Friesian-Holstein,
Holstein, Black and White Friesian, Red and White Friesian, Frisona espa-
ñola, Frisona Italiana, Zwartbonten van België/Pie noire de Belgique,
Sortbroget dansk mælkerace (SDM), Deutsche Schwarzbunte, Schwarzbunte
Milchrasse (SMR)
— Groninger Blaarkop— Guernsey— Jersey— Malkeborthorn— Reggiana— Valdostana Nera— Itäsuomenkarja
— Länsisuomenkarja
— Pohjoissuomenkarja.1999R2342 — EN — 01.01.2003 — 011.002 — 28
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ANNEX II
AVERAGEMILKYIELDREFERREDTOINARTICLE18
(kilograms)
Belgium 5450
Denmark 6800
Germany 5800
Greece 4250
Spain 4650
France 5550
Ireland 4100
Italy 5150
Luxembourg 5700
Netherlands 6800
Austria 4650
Portugal 5100
Finland 6400
Sweden 7150United Kingdom 59001999R2342 — EN — 01.01.2003 — 011.002 — 29
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ANNEX III
National ceilings for the slaughter premium referred to in Article 38(1)
applicablefrom1January2002
Adult bovines Calves
Belgium 711232 335935
Denmark 711589 54700
Germany 4 357713 652132
Greece 235060 80324
Spain (1) 1 982216 25629
France (2) 4 041075 2 045731
Ireland 1 776668 0
Italy 3 426835 1 321236
Luxembourg 21867 3 432
Netherlands 1 207849 1 198113
Austria 546557 129881
Portugal (3) 325093 70911
Finland 382536 10090
Sweden 502063 29933
United Kingdom 3 266212 26271
(1) Without prejudice to the special provisions laid down by Council Regulation (EC) No
1454/2001 of 28 June 2001 introducing specific measures for certain agricultural
products for the Canary Islands and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 1601/92 (Poseican)
(OJ L 198, 21.7.2001, p. 45).
(2) Without prejudice to the special provisions laid down by Council Regulation (EC) No
1452/2001 of 28 June 2001 introducing specific measures for certain agriculturalproducts for the French overseas departments, amending Directive 72/462//EEC and
repealing Regulations (EEC) No 525/77 and (EEC) No 3763/91 (Poseidom) (OJ L
198, 21.7.2001, p. 11).
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3) Without prejudice to the special provisions laid down by Council Regulation (EC) No
1453/2001 of 28 June 2001 introducing specific measures for certain agriculturalproducts for the Azores and Madeira and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 1600/92
(Poseima) (OJ L 198, 21.7.2001, p. 26).1999R2342 — EN — 01.01.2003 — 011.002 — 30
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Tablereferred toinArticles21(3)and46
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