CELEX: 51984PC0192(01)
Language: en
Date: 1984-05-07
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION INTRODUCING AID FOR THE TRANSHUMANCE OF SHEEP, GOATS AND CATTLE IN GREECE

23.5.84                               Official Journal of the European Communities                          No C 135/9
accordance with Article 148 (2) of the Treaty. The                The Council, acting by a qualified majority, may
chairman shall not vote.                                          adopt different measures within one month.
The commission shall adopt the measures, which shall
apply immediately. However, of they are not in                                            Article 12
accordance with the opinion of the Committee, the
Commission shall forthwith communicate them to the                This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1984.
Council; in that event the Commission may defer
their application for not more than one month from                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
the date of such communication.                                   directly applicable in all Member States.
              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)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                       HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
COMMUNITIES,
                                                                                           Article 1
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the
European Economic Community, and in particular                    1.    For a period of five years from 1 July 1984
Articles 42 and 43 thereof,                                       Greece is hereby authorized to grant aid to sheep,
                                                                  goat and cattle farmers who transport their animals
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,                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
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-                 distance to be determined.
liament,
                                                                  2.    For the first year the amount of the aid shall be
Whereas two-thirds of Greek territory is made up of               equal to 60 % of the actual expenditure on transport
particularly less-favoured mountainous regions where              costs. For the four subsequent years the aid shall be
stockfarming is the principal economic activity;                  equal to 50, 40, 30 and 20 % respectively of such
whereas because of the adverse soil and climatic                  expenditure.
conditions these regions can support livestock during
only a certain period of the year, so that outside that           3.    The amount of the aid referred to in paragraph
period the livestock must be transported to other                 1 shall be charged to the Guarantee Section of the
areas;                                                            European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee
                                                                  Fund.
Whereas, pending implementation in these mountain
regions of the structural measures already adopted or                                      Article 2
still to be adopted by the Council, aid should be
granted on a temporary and degressive basis for the               1.    Detailed rules for the application of this Regu-
transhumance of livestock in Greece;                              lation shall be adopted in accordance with the
                                                                  procedure laid down:
Whereas such aid constitutes intervention on the
internal market within the meaning of Article 3 of                — as regards sheep and goats, in Article 26 of
Council Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 of 21 April                        Council Regulation (EEC) No 1837/80 (3),
1970 on the financing of the common agricultural
policy (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                — as regards cattle, in Article 27 of Council Regu-
3509/80 O ,                                                           lation (EEC) N o 805/68 (4).
(*) 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.
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2.   The rules shall specify in particular:                                             Article 3
— the minimum number of animals to be transported              The Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
   in order to qualify for aid,                                following its publication in the Official Journal of the
— the minimum distance for which they must be                  European Communities.
   transported,
                                                               This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
— the measures for monitoring the aid scheme.                  directly applicable in all Member States.