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(e) 30 inspectors responsible for checking the quality 
classification of cotton delivered for ginning. 
Article 3 
For the purposes of this Regulation, the inspectors' 
remuneration means their salaries and the travel 
expenses necessary for the discharge of their duties. 
Article 4 
1. The inspectors' training must enable the persons 
concerned to acquire sufficient knowledge for the 
performance of their duties. 
2. The basic courses must comprise at least three 
months of theoretical and practical training: 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN 
COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the 
European Economic Community, and in particular 
Articles 42 and 43 thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par­
liament, 
Whereas the territory of Greece is split up into a 
great number of islands; whereas this situation is not 
as a whole comparable to that of the other Member 
States; 
Whereas the configuration of Greek territory imposes 
on agricultural producers in the islands additional 
costs which affect the productivity of their holdings 
and in particular prevent an improvement in agri­
cultural practices; Article 5 
The annual amount of expenditure borne by the 
Community shall be decided by the Commission on 
the basis of information supplied by Greece. 
Article 6 
Detailed rules for the application of this Regulation 
shall be adopted where necessary, in accordance with 
the procedure laid down in Article 26 of Council 
Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 (l) or, as appropriate, 
in the corresponding Articles of the other Regulations 
on the common organization of agricultural markets. 
Article 7 
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1984. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and 
directly applicable in all Member States. 
0) OJNoL281, 1. 11. 1975, p. 1. 
Whereas, in order to remedy these holdings' natural 
handicaps, provision should be made, pending the 
development of transport infrastructure and the 
implementation of structural measures to be adopted 
by the Council, for the grant, on a temporary and 
degressive basis, of aid to cover part of the cost of 
transporting certain means of agricultural production 
to the islands; whereas, however, such aid should not 
be for transport to Crete or Euboea; whereas these 
islands, one of them because of its size and the other 
because of its proximity to the mainland, do not have 
the natural handicaps referred to above; 
Whereas the measures envisaged are of Community 
interest and are designed to achieve the objectives set 
out in Article 39 (1) (a) of the Treaty; whereas they 
therefore constitute a common measure within the 
meaning of Article 6 of Council Regulation (EEC) 
No 729/70 of 21 April 1970 on the financing of the 
common agricultural policy (*), as last amended by 
Regulation (EEC) No 3509/80 (2), 
0) OJ No L 94, 28. 4. 1970, p. 13. 
O OJ No L 367, 31.12. 1980, p. 87. Proposal for a Council Regulation authorizing Greece to grant aid for the transport of 
means of production to certain islands 
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 7 
Article 1 
During the five-year period commencing on 1 July 
1984 Greece is hereby authorized to grant aid for the 
transport of certain means of production of an agri­
cultural nature from the mainland to the islands, with 
the exception of Crete and Euboea. 
Article 2 
The aid shall be granted to agricultural producers 
who, either individually or in association, purchase: 
— fertilizers, 
— fuel, 
— seeds, 
— compound feedingstuffs, 
— plant health and veterinary products, 
for use on holdings on the islands referred to in 
Article 1. 
Article 3 
The aid shall be paid to recipients once it has been 
proved, to the satisfaction of the competent auth­
orities, that the means of production referred to in 
Article 2 have been: 
— transported from the mainland, and 
— used on a holding on one of the islands in 
question. 
Article 4 
The amount of the aid shall be equal, in the first year, 
to 60 % of the cost of transport between the place of 
shipment on the mainland and the island of 
destination. 
For the following years the aid shall be equal 
respectively to 50, 40, 30 and 20 °/o of the transport 
costs. 
Article 5 
Detailed rules for the application of the preceding 
Articles, in particular the rules concerning the grant 
of aid, shall be adopted in accordance with the 
procedure laid down in Article 11. 
Article 6 
After the end of the third year of application of the 
aid scheme Greece shall send the Commission a 
report on the effects of the scheme on the use of 
means of production in the islands. The measures provided for in this Regulation shall 
constitute a common measure within the meaning of 
Article 6 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70. 
Article 8 
1. The duration of the common measures shall be 
five years from the entry into force of this Regu­
lation. 
2. The estimated cost to the European Agricultural 
Guidance and Guarantee Fund of the common 
measure shall be 17,7 million ECU for the period 
envisaged in paragraph 1. 
3. Article 6 (5) of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 
shall apply to this Regulation. 
Article 9 
1. Expenditure incurred by Greece in connection 
with the measure provided for in this Regulation shall 
be eligible under the Guidance Section of the Fund. 
2. The Guidance Section of the Fund shall 
reimburse to Greece 50 % of the eligible expenditure. 
Article 10 
1. Applications for reimbursement shall refer to 
expenditure incurred by Greece in the course of a 
calendar year and shall be submitted to the 
Commission before 1 July of the following year. 
2. Aid from the Fund shall be decided on in 
accordance with Article 7 (1) of Regulation (EEC) 
No 729/70. 
3. The Fund may grant advances. 
4. Detailed rules for the application of this Article 
shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure 
laid down in Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 
729/70. 
Article 11 
Where the procedure laid down in this Article is to be 
followed, the matter shall be referred to the Standing 
Committee on Agricultural Structure, either on the 
initiative of its chairman or at the request of the 
representative of a Member State. 
The representative of the Commission shall submit a 
draft of the measures to be taken. The Committee 
shall deliver its opinion within a period to be set by 
the chairman according to the urgency of the matter. 
Opinions shall be adopted by a majority of 45 votes, 
the votes of Member States being weighted in 
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accordance with Article 148 (2) of the Treaty. The 
chairman shall not vote. 
The commission shall adopt the measures, which shall 
apply immediately. However, of they are not in 
accordance with the opinion of the Committee, the 
Commission shall forthwith communicate them to the 
Council; in that event the Commission may defer 
their application for not more than one month from 
the date of such communication. 
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN 
COMMUNITIES, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the 
European Economic Community, and in particular 
Articles 42 and 43 thereof, 
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, 
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par­
liament, 
Whereas two-thirds of Greek territory is made up of 
particularly less-favoured mountainous regions where 
stockfarming is the principal economic activity; 
whereas because of the adverse soil and climatic 
conditions these regions can support livestock during 
only a certain period of the year, so that outside that 
period the livestock must be transported to other 
areas; 
Whereas, pending implementation in these mountain 
regions of the structural measures already adopted or 
still to be adopted by the Council, aid should be 
granted on a temporary and degressive basis for the 
transhumance of livestock in Greece; 
Whereas such aid constitutes intervention on the 
internal market within the meaning of Article 3 of 
Council Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 of 21 April 
1970 on the financing of the common agricultural 
policy (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 
3509/80 O, The Council, acting by a qualified majority, may 
adopt different measures within one month. 
Article 12 
This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1984. 
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and 
directly applicable in all Member States. 
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 
Article 1 
1. For a period of five years from 1 July 1984 
Greece is hereby authorized to grant aid to sheep, 
goat and cattle farmers who transport their animals 
by lorry, rail or sea from winter pastures to summer 
pastures and vice versa, provided the transport 
involves a minimum number of animals and exceeds a 
distance to be determined. 
2. For the first year the amount of the aid shall be 
equal to 60 % of the actual expenditure on transport 
costs. For the four subsequent years the aid shall be 
equal to 50, 40, 30 and 20 % respectively of such 
expenditure. 
3. The amount of the aid referred to in paragraph 
1 shall be charged to the Guarantee Section of the 
European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee 
Fund. 
Article 2 
1. Detailed rules for the application of this Regu­
lation shall be adopted in accordance with the 
procedure laid down: 
— as regards sheep and goats, in Article 26 of 
Council Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 (3), 
— as regards cattle, in Article 27 of Council Regu­
lation (EEC) No 805/68 (4). Proposal for a Council Regulation introducing aid for the transhumance of sheep, goats 
and cattle in Greece 
COM(84) 192 final 
(Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 10 May 1984) 
(84/C 135/10) 
(*) OJ No L 94, 28. 4. 1970, p. 13. O OJ No L 183, 16. 7. 1980, p. 1. 
O OJ No L 367, 31. 12. 1980, p. 87 (4) OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 24.