Commission Regulation (EC) No 1999/2002 of 8 November 2002 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 2019/93 as regards the specific aid arrangements for the smaller Aegean Islands in respect of vineyards
Date: 2002-11-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Aegean Islands, aid per hectare, aid system, producer organisation, viticulture

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1999/2002

of 8 November 2002

laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 2019/93 as regards
the specific aid arrangements for the smaller Aegean Islands in respect of vineyards

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Article 2

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2019/93 of 19
July 1993 introducing specific measures for the smaller Aegean
islands concerning certain agricultural products (1), as
last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 442/2002 (2), and in particular
Article 9 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 2019/93 provides for a
flat-rate aid per hectare for the continued cultivation of
vines for the production of quality wines psr in tradi-
tional production areas in the smaller Aegean islands.

To be granted the flat-rate aid per hectare, the interested
party (either a wine producer group or organisation)
must first submit a wine improvement measure, based
on a programme approved by the competent authorities.

Article 1(8) of Regulation (EC) No 2019/93 abolishes aid
for ageing quality liqueur wines, since it was deemed
unsuitable to the situation in the Aegean Islands, due to
the short storage period.

The detailed rules to administer this scheme and to
monitor the conditions adopted by the Council should
be laid down.

To avoid any legal ambiguity, Regulation (EEC) No
3112/93 (3) should be repealed.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Wine,

1.
The flat-rate aid per hectare for continuing to cultivate
vines for the production of quality wines psr provided for in
Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 2019/93 shall be granted at
the request of wine producer groups or organisations for areas
planted with vine varieties suitable for the production of quality
wines psr.

2.
The producer organisations shall be those referred to in
Article 39 of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999. The Greek autho-
rities shall lay down the criteria that the producer groups must
satisfy to qualify for the aid in question, and notify them to the
Commission.

Article 3

Applications for the per-hectare aid shall be lodged by
1.
interested parties with the competent Greek authorities during
the period fixed by them and by 1 May of each year, at the
latest, for the following wine year. However, for the 2002/03
wine year, applications shall be lodged no later than 31
December 2002.

2.

The aid application must include the following:

(a) the address of the producer group or organisation;

(b) the area cultivated for the production of quality wines psr,
in hectares and ares, together with the land register refer-
ence or indication recognised as equivalent by the agency
responsible for verifying the areas;

(c) the grape varieties used;

(d) an estimate of the potential crop.

Article 4

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Having checked that the wine producer group or organisation
has carried out the wine improvement measure in accordance
with the approved programme, the competent Greek authority
shall pay the aid before 1 April of the wine year for which it is
granted.

This Regulation lays down the detailed rules for applying
Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 2019/93, as amended by
Council Regulation (EC) No 442/2002.

Article 5

(1) OJ L 184, 27.7.1993, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 68, 12.3.2002, p. 4.
(3) OJ L 278, 11.11.1993, p. 52.

The competent Greek authority shall notify the Commission by
30 April of the areas for which aid applications have been
made and in respect of which aid has actually been paid.

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Article 6

1.
The competent Greek authority shall take all the measures
necessary to ensure compliance with the conditions to which
the grant of aid provided for in this Regulation is subject.

2.
Aid applications shall be checked in a manner that
ensures effective verification of compliance with the conditions
imposed. Depending on the kind of support measure,
the
competent Greek authority shall define the method and means
for conducting the check and the beneficiaries to be checked.
In all appropriate cases the competent Greek authority shall
use the vineyard register and the integrated administration and
control system established by Regulation (EEC) No 3508/92.

The checks shall involve administrative and on-the-spot

3.
checks.

4.
The administrative checks shall be exhaustive and shall
include crosschecks, where appropriate, with the data in the
to
integrated administration and control
prevent multiple payments of undue aid.

system in order

On the basis of a risk analysis, the national authorities
5.
shall carry out random on-the-spot checks of a number of aid
applications representing at least 5 % of the assisted areas.

6.
The competent Greek authority shall establish the system
of penalties to be imposed in the event of breaches of the obli-
gations entered into and the applicable provisions, and shall
take all the steps necessary to implement the system. The
penalties must be effective, commensurate with their purpose
and have a deterrent effect.

Article 8 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999 (1) on

7.
the financing of the common agricultural policy shall apply.

Regulation (EEC) No 3112/93 is hereby repealed.

Article 7

Article 8

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 8 November 2002.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 103.