CELEX: 31971R2311
Language: en
Date: 1971-10-29 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 2311/71 of the Council of 29 October 1971 on the subsidy for olive oil

Official Journal of the European Communities
 30.10.71                           Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 244/7
                              REGULATION (EEC) No 2311/71 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                    of 29 October 1971
                                                on the subsidy for olive oil
 THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                       gives entitlement thereto, provision should be made
                                                                 for a system of administrative supervision to check
Having regard to Council Regulation No                           that the quantities of oil in respect of which
 136/66/EEC1 of 22 September 1966 on the                         applications for subsidy are made are consistent with
establishment of a common organisation of the                    the potential production of ' olives and oil during the
market in oils and fats, as last amended by                      marketing year in question and with the quantities of
Regulation (EEC) No 2554/70,2 and in particular                  the products from which the oil is extracted and the
Article 10 (2) thereof;                                          quantities of oil actually produced;
Having     regard     to    Council     Regulation      No       Whereas such supervision should be based on the
162/66/EEC3 of 27 October 1966 on trade in oils and              stock records of oil mills and extraction plants and
fats between the Community and Greece, arid in                   on a system of cultivation declarations ; whereas, to
particular Article 8 thereof;                                    ensure the proper working of the supervision system,
                                                                 the accuracy of the stock records and cultivation
                                                                 declarations should be verified by the Member States;
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission;
                                                                 Whereas, however, to simplify the application of the
Whereas the principles must be laid down under                   subsidy system to olive-residue oil, provision should
which the subsidy referred to in Article 10 of                   be made for the determination of the quantity of such
Regulation No 136/66/EEC will be granted to olive                oil which will be accepted for the subsidy to be
oil producers for the 1971/72 marketing year;                    effected on the basis of the production of oil by
whereas, moreover, measures should be adopted to                 extraction;
ensure that the subsidy is granted only for olive oil
produced in the Community from olives harvested in               Whereas the system of administrative supervision
the Community, and in respect of which the subsidy               referred to above must be supplemented by
has not already been granted;                                    Community supervision for raw materials imported
                                                                 from Greece and from third countries;
Whereas, to ensure the proper working of the subsidy
system, the subsidy should be granted only for                   HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
quantities of oil in respect of which applications are
submitted within oil-producing regions ; whereas, in
order to simplify the application of the system,                                         Article 1
provision should be made for Member States to fix
the number of applications for subsidy which can be              For the 1971 /72 marketing year, the subsidy referred
made during the marketing year;                                  to in Article 10 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC shall
                                                                 be granted in respect of olive oil falling within the
Whereas, the subsidy in question is of . considerable            definitions contained under 1 and 4 of the Annex to
importance for oil producers and constitutes a                   that Regulation.
financial burden for the Community; whereas, to
ensure that the subsidy is granted only, for such oil as
                                                                                         Article 2
1 OJ No 172, 30.9.1966, p. 3025/66.                              1 . The subsidy shall be granted upon application
2 OJ No L 275 , 19.12.1970, p. 5 .                               to be made by the persons concerned in the
3 OJ No 197, 29.10.1 966, p. 3393/66.                            oil-producing regions of the Community.
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2.      The producing Member States           shall  fix,                                 Article 5
according to criteria to be determined, the number of
applications which each person may submit and the­             Every producer of olives for the production of oil
time limit for submission of such applications.                shall lodge a cultivation declaration which shall,
                                                               contain, at the least, information regarding the area
                          Article 3                            planted with olive trees and the number of olive trees
                                                               cultivated and producing within that area.
 1 . Each producing Member State shall set up a
system of administrative supervision to ensure that            Cultivation declarations lodged for the 1969/70 and
the products in respect of which applications are              1970/71 marketing years shall also be valid for the
made for subsidy are products which give entitlement           1971 /72 marketing year unless the producer's
thereto .                                                      undertaking has changed in such a way as to alter
                                                               potential production of olives and oil.
2. As regards the type of oil referred to under 1 of
the Annex to Regulation No 136/66/EEC, the
supervision must, in particular, include a check that                                     Article 6
the quantity of oil in respect of which an application
is made for subsidy by a person concerned is                    1.    Consistency between the quantity of oil in
consistent with :
                                                               respect of which subsidy is applied for and the
(a) the quantity of olives harvested within the                potential production referred to in Article 3 (2) (c)
       Community and used for the production of such           shall be verified by checking the information
       oil,                                                    contained in the cultivation declarations against the
                                                               target yields referred to in paragraph 2.
( b) the actual quantity of oil produced,
  ( c) the potential production of olives and oil during       2.    Target yields for olives and for oil shall be set .
       the marketing year in question.
                                                               by bodies designated for the purpose by the
                                                               producing Member States.
3 . As regards the type of oil referred to under 4 of
the Annex to Regulation No 136/66/EEC, the
supervision must, in particular, include a check that                                     Article 7
the quantity of oil in respect of which an application
is made for subsidy by a person concerned is
consistent with :                                              The producing Member States shall :
(a) the quantity of olive residue obtained from olives         ( a) verify the accuracy of the stock records referred
       harvested within the Community and used for                  to in Article 4 ( a);
       the production of such oil,
(b ) the actual quantity of oil produced in extraction         (b) verify the accuracy of cultivation declarations by
       plants .                                                     spot checks in situ.
4.      By way of derogation from paragraph 3,
producing Member States may determine the                                                 Article 8
quantity of olive-residue oil which will be accepted
for subsidy, particularly on the basis of production of        1.    A Community system is hereby set up for
the type of oil referred to under 1 of the Annex to            supervision of products as referred to in Article 1 (2)
Regulation No 136/66/EEC.                                      (d) and (e) of Regulation No 136/66/EEC which are
                                                               imported from Greece or from third countries.
                          Article 4
                                                               This system may be accompanied by the lodging of a
                                                               deposit which, in respect of olives, shall be confined
For the purposes of the supervision referred to in             to products referred to in Article 15 ( 1 ) of that
Article 3, producing Member States shall :                     Regulation.
( a) oblige oil mills and, subject to Article 3 (4),
       extraction plants for olive-residue oil to keep
       records of their stocks,                                2. Detailed rules for the application of this Article
                                                               shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure
 (b) apply a system of cultivation declarations in             laid down in Article 38 of Regulation No
       accordance with Articles 5 and 6.                       136/66/EEC.
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                    Article 9                               attained, a decision will be taken, in accordance with
                                                            the procedure laid down in Article 38 of Regulation
The Member States     shall   communicate to      the       No 136/66/EEC, as to the amendments which should
Commission, before they become applicable, all              be made thereto by the Member State concerned.
provisions adopted by them in pursuance of this
Regulation.
                                                                                  Article 10
Should the provisions in question not be apt to             This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 November
enable the objectives of this Regulation to be              1971 .
            This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
            States.
            Done at Brussels, 29 October 1971 .
                                                                                 For the Council
                                                                                  The President
                                                                                    L. NATALI