CELEX: 31976R1257
Language: en
Date: 1976-05-31 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1257/76 of 31 May 1976 on the detailed rules with respect to aid for durum wheat during the 1976/77 marketing year

1 . 6. 76                                Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 143/ 1
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                                               (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                               •   COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1257/76
                                                          of 31 May 1976
              on the detailed rules with respect to aid for durum wheat during the 1976/77
                                                          marketing year
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                       minimum number of particulars to enable Member
COMMUNITIES,                                                         States to make the necessary checks ; whereas Article
                                                                     5 of Regulation (EEC) No 1147/76 provides for a spot
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                check of the accuracy of statements ; whereas to be
Economic Community,                                                  effective a sufficiently representative number of appli­
                                                                     cations for aid should be checked ; whereas pursuant
                                                                     to Article 4 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                         1134/68 of 30 July 1968 laying down rules for the
2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­                   implementation of Regulation (EEC) No 653/68 on
tion of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by                conditions for alterations to the value of the unit of
Regulation ( EEC) No 1 1 43/76 (2), and in particular                account used for the common agricultural policy (4),
Article 10 (5) thereof,                                              the amount of the aid is converted into national
                                                                     currency at the rate prevailing on the date the transac­
Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1147/76 of 17                    tion or part transaction is carried out ; whereas under
May 1976 (3), laid down general rules with respect to                Article 6 thereof the time when a transaction          is
aid    for durum wheat ; whereas the               Commission        carried out is considered as being the date of the event
should lay down the detailed rules for their applica­                giving entitlement ; whereas the event giving entitle­
tion ;                                                               ment to aid for durum wheat occurs on harvest ;
                                                                     whereas, faced with the difficulty of determining the
Whereas, since the time of harvest for durum wheat is                exact date of harvest in each case, the first day of the
approaching in some Member States provision should                   marketing year for which there is entitlement to aid
be made as soon as possible for administrative                       should be considered as the representative date of
measures in respect of granting this aid while limiting              harvest ;
them to practical possibilities during the 1976/77
marketing year ; whereas, further, the experiments                   Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
needed to define quality and technical characteristics               are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
and to establish a list of seed varieties according to               ment Committee for Cereals,
these characteristics are still under way ; whereas,
therefore, such definition should be deferred to a later
date ;
Whereas pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation (EEC)                    HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
No 1 147/ 76 Member States are to institute an adminis­
trative control system to ensure that the product for
which aid is requested meets the conditions laid down
for the granting thereof ; whereas in view of the                                               Article 1
special situation of the 1976/77 marketing year a state­
ment concerning the area sown must be coupled with
a statement regarding the area harvested and                         For the 1976/77 marketing year the aid referred to in
submitted together with the application for aid by the               Article 10 of Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 shall be
producer ; whereas this application must contain a                   granted for durum wheat produced in the Community
                                                                     in accordance with the conditions set out in the
(') OJ No L 281 , 1 . 1 i . 1975, p . 1 .
                                                                     following Articles.
(-') OJ No L 130 , 19 . 5 . 1976, p . 1 .
(3 ) OJ No L 130 , 19 . 5 . 1976, p . 1 1                            (<) OJ No L 188 , 1 . 8 . 1968 , p. 1 .
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                        Article 2                            to be fixed for each Member State and by 30
                                                             September 1976 at the latest.
In order to be eligible for the aid the durum wheat
shall be of a certain quality and have certain technical     2. The application for aid shall include at least the
characteristics or shall have been produced from the         following particulars :
seed of certain varieties. These qualities and character­    — the name, forenames and address of the applicant,
istics and the list of these varieties shall be fixed
                                                             — the areas harvested in hectares and in ares, the
before 15 June 1976.                                              cadastral reference of such areas or an indication
                                                                  recognized as equivalent by the agency responsible
                        Article 3
                                                                  for checking the areas,
The aid shall be granted only for areas :                    — the variety of seed used.
(a) within :
                                                                                      Article 5
     — the regions laid down in the Annex to Regula­
        tion (EEC) No 1144/76,                               The check provided for in Article 5 of Regulation
     — less-favoured agricultural areas within the           (EEC) No 1147/76 shall cover at least a representative
        meaning of Council Directive 75/268/EEC on            proportion of the applications submitted, taking into
        mountain and hill farming and farming in             account the geographical distribution of the areas
                                                             concerned .
        certain less-favoured areas, considered as such
        on 1 August 1976 ;
                                                                                      Article 6
(b) which were fully sown and harvested and which
     have been normally farmed ;                              1 . The Member State shall pay the amount of the
                                                             aid for durum wheat by 31 July 1977 at the latest.
(c) for which an application has been submitted in
     accordance with Article 4. This application shall        2. Within the meaning of Article 6 of Regulation
     be equivalent to a declaration of the areas sown        (EEC) No 1 134/68 , the date of the event giving entitle­
     and the areas harvested .                                ment shall be considered to be 1 August 1976.
                        Article 4                                                     Article 7
1 . All producers of durum wheat concerned shall             This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
submit an application for aid after the harvest to the        following its publication in the Official Journal of
competent agency in each Member State before a date           the European Communities.
              This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
              States .
              Done at Brussels, 31 May 1976.
                                                                       For the Commission
                                                                          P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                    Member of the Commission