CELEX: 31976R0823
Language: en
Date: 1976-04-07 00:00:00
Title: Commission Regulation (EEC) No 823/76 of 7 April 1976 on detailed rules for supplementary aid to certain silkworm rearers

9 . 4. 76                               Official Journal of the European Communities                          No L 94/21
                                    COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 823/76
                                                        of 7 April 1976
                     on detailed rules for supplementary aid to certain silkworm rearers
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                    out is to be considered to be the date on which occurs
COMMUNITIES,                                                      the event, as defined by Community rules or, in the
                                                                  absence of and pending adoption of such rules, by the
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European              rules of the Member State concerned, in which the
Economic Community,                                               amount involved in the transaction becomes due and
                                                                   payable ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
708/76 of 25 March 1976 on the granting of supple­                Whereas the event in which the supplementary aid for
mentary aid in the silkworm sector for the 1976/77                certain silkworm rearers becomes due and payable is
marketing year (1), and in particular Article 5 thereof,          when the silkworm cocoons are delivered to a recog­
                                                                   nized group ; whereas the date of delivery is very close
Whereas, under Article 3 (2) thereof, supplementary                to the date on which the application for aid referred
aid is granted solely for boxes that satisfy certain               to in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 845/72 is
conditions ; whereas the same conditions should be                 submitted ; whereas this date is to be considered to be
fixed as those fixed for the granting of the aid referred          the date on which aid becomes due and payable ;
to in Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 845/72 of 24               whereas, in order to ensure uniform operation of the
April 1972 laying down special measures to encourage               two systems of aids for silkworms, the conversion rate
silkworm rearing (2) ;                                             to be used to calculate the amount of the supplemen­
                                                                   tary aid in national currency should be the rate appli­
Whereas Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 708/76                    cable on the date on which the application for aid is
states that Member States shall introduce administra­              submitted ;
tion checks to ensure that the product in respect of
which aid has been applied for satisfies the necessary             Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
conditions for the granting thereof ; whereas applica­             are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­
tions for aid submitted must therefore include a                   ment Committee for Flax and Hemp,
minimum of information necessary for this check ;
Whereas, for the same purpose, producer groups must
keep accounts containing the necessary information                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
for checking the accuracy of the application for aid ;
Whereas uniform conditions for the payment of the
                                                                                            Article 1
amount of the aid should be laid down ;
Whereas Article 4 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No               The supplementary aid referred to in Article 1 of
1134/68 of 30 July 1968 laying down rules for the                  Regulation (EEC) No 708/76 shall be granted under
implementation of Regulation (EEC) No 653/68 on                    the conditions laid down in the following Articles.
conditions for alterations for the value of the unit of
account used for the common agricultural policy (3),
provides that for transactions carried out pursuant to                                      Article 2
provisions on the common agricultural policy the
sums owed by a Member State or a duly authorized
                                                                   The supplementary aid shall be granted only
body, expressed in national currency and representing
amounts fixed in units of account, are to be paid on               — if the boxes satisfy the conditions referred to in
the basis of the relationship between the unit of                      Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No
account and the national currency which obtained at                     1054/73 of 18 April 1973 on detailed rules for aid
the time when the transaction or part transaction was                   in respect of silkworms (4), as amended by Regula­
carried out ;                                                           tion (EEC) No 683/74 (*), and,
Whereas Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 1134/68                   — the cocoons coming from these boxes have been
provides that the time when a transaction is carried                    delivered to the producer group during the period
                                                                        in which it is recognized.
(!) OJ No L 84, 31 . 3 . 1976, p. 3 .
(2) OJ No L 100, 27. 4. 1972, p. 1                                 (4) OJ No L 105, 20 . 4. 1973, p. 4.
 3) OJ No L 188 , 1 . 8 . 1968 , p. 1 .                            (5) OJ No L 83, 28 . 3 . 1974, p. 13.
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                           Article 3                            referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No
 1 . Applications for supplementary aid shall be                845/71 and of the other documents submitted by each
 submitted not later than 30 November 1 976 by :                of the members referred to in the preceding para­
                                                                graph in order to obtain such aid.
 — recognized groups,
 — or groups whose application for recognition is                                      Article 5
     pending in the Member States concerned.
                                                                 1.   Producer groups shall keep accounts that specify
 2.    A producer group may submit only one applica­            at least :
 tion on behalf of all its members.
                                                                — the quantity of cocoons received, with the name of
 3. The Member State shall pay the amount of the                    the rearer supplying them and the date of receipt,
 aid to the producer group within the four months               — the quantity of cocoons sold, with the name of the
 following the month in which the application was                   purchaser and the date of dispatch, where appli­
 submitted, provided that the group has obtained recog­             cable, the quantity of cocoons in stock,
 nition .
                                                                — where applicable, the quantity of cocoons
                                                                    processed indicating the quantity of products
                           Article 4                                processed, delivered or stocked.
 1.    The application for supplementary aid shall              2. Member States shall cause producer groups to
 include at least :                                             undergo an administrative check to ensure that entries
 — the name and address of the producer group,                  in the relevant account agree with those in the applica­
                                                                tion for supplementary aid.
 — the signature of authorized person or persons,
 — the     names,     forenames    and  addresses   of  the
                                                                                       Article 6
     members of the group on behalf of whom the aid
     is applied for,                                            The event, within the meaning of Article 6 of Regula­
— the quantity of cocoons produced during the                   tion (EEC) No 1134/68, in which the supplementary
     1976/77 marketing year and delivered to the                aid for certain silkworm rearers becomes due and
     producer group and the date or dates on which              payable shall be considered to have occurred on the
     they were delivered,                                       date on which the application for aid is submitted.
— where applicable, the authorization granted under
     the first indent of Article 1 (b) of Regulation (EEC)                             Article 7
     No 707/76 (!).
                                                                This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
 2. The application for supplementary aid must be               following its publication in the Official Journal of
 accompanied by copies of the application for aid               the European Communities.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 7 April 1976.
                                                                           For the Commission
                                                                             P.J. LARDINOIS
                                                                     Member of the Commission
(!) OJ No L 84, 31 . 3 . 1976, p. 1 .