9. 3. 89 Official Journal of the European Communities No C 60/13 
The Commission shall take full account of the opinion (a) 
delivered by the committee. It shall inform the committee 
of the steps it has taken to this end. 
3. The committee shall lay down its rules of 
procedure. 
(b) 
Article 10 
The dissemination and exchange of information 
concerning more especially the coordination and 
assessment of schemes and the dissemination and 
exchange of knowledge shall be organized on the 
responsibility of the Commission. 
Bef 
The Commission shall disseminate the results of 
operations carried out pursuant to this Decision using v 
such means as may be most appropriate. 
Bef 
Article 11 , 
the 
Community financial support will be granted, in the 
framework of the appropriations entered annually in the 
general budget of the European Communities for the 
implementation of the present programme, at the Thi 
following rates: the 
On 14 December 1988 the Commission submitted to the the 
Council the abovementioned proposals. Following the 
discussions in the Council in January 1989 the original 
proposal was amended as follows: 
1. the following sentence is added to the first recital: 
'whereas a reduction in areas traditionally under such 
crops would take place as a result of an increase in 
O OJ No C 6, 7. 1. 1989, p. 8. (a) for prototype schemes, the maximum rate will be 
50 % of actual expenditure within the limits of the 
assistance approved by the Commission. 
However, in exceptional cases, especially those 
located in particularly disadvantaged regions, this 
ceiling may be raised to 55 %; 
(b) for direct subsidies to innovative initiatives on the 
part of private or public bodies at regional or local 
level, the rate may be raised to 75 % of actual 
expenditure within the limits of the assistance 
approved by the Commission. 
Article 12 
Before 31 December 1992 the Commission shall present 
to the Council and the European Parliament an interim 
report on the implementation and results of the 
programme. 
Before 1 July 1994, the Commission shall present to the 
Council and the European Parliament a final report on 
the implementation and results of the programme. 
Article 13 
This Decision shall be published in the Official Journal of 
the European Communities. It shall enter into force on ... 
the production of crops which are already in surplus in 
the Community;' 
2. the second recital is replaced by the following: 
'Whereas the objective of maintaining the crops in 
question may be achieved by granting an aid per 
hectare; whereas the aid must be fixed at a level 
enabling the abovementioned objective to be 
achieved; whereas account must be taken when fixing 
the aid of measures taken in the framework of other 
existing arrangements; whereas in particular that aid 
must not be paid for areas qualifiying for aid to 
encourage the withdrawal of arable land or to Amendment to the proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) introducing a special measure for 
certain grain legumes (') 
COM(89) 39 final 
(Submitted by the Commission pursuant to the third paragraph of Article 149 of the EEC Treaty on 
16 February 1989) 
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encourage the conversion of production pursuant to 
Council Regulation (EEC) No 797/85 of 12 March 
1985 on improving the efficiency of agricultural 
structures ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) 
No 1137/880; 
O OJNoL93, 30.3. 1985, p. 1. 
O OJN0LIO8, 29. 4. 1988, p. 1.' 
3. in Article 1, 'other' is added after each of the three 
CN codes and in the third indent 'Vicia Sativa L. and 
Vicia Ervilla Willd.' is replaced by 'Vicia sativa L. and 
Vicia ervilla Willd.'; 
4. the second subparagraph of Article 2 (1) is replaced 
by the following: 
'The aid shall not be granted for areas qualifying for 
aid to encourage the withdrawal of arable land and 
areas qualifying for aid to encourage conversion of 
production pursuant to Regulation (EEC) No 
797/85.'; 
5. the third subparagraphe of Article 2 (1) is replaced by 
the following: 'The aid shall be fixed per hectare of area sown and 
harvested. It shall be fixed taking account: 
— of the need to ensure the maintenance of areas 
traditionally under such crops, 
— of aid granted for those crops under other 
Community regulations.'; 
6. The last subparagraph of Article 2 (2) is replaced by 
the following: 
'The areas of arable land to which point (b) of the 
third subparagraph of Articles la and lc of Regu­
lation (EEC) No 797/85 shall not be included when 
carrying out the verification provided for in the first 
subparagraph.'; 
7. The second paragraph of Article 5 is replaced by the 
following: 
'The specific measure introduced by this Regulation 
shall apply until the end of the 1991/92 marketing 
year.'