CELEX: 51984PC0192(03)
Language: en
Date: 1984-05-07
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION AUTHORIZING GREECE TO GRANT AID FOR THE TRANSPORT OF MEANS OF PRODUCTION TO CERTAIN ISLANDS

23.5.84                               Official Journal of the European Communities                          N o C 135/7
(e) 30 inspectors responsible for checking the quality                                        Article 5
    classification of cotton delivered for ginning.
                                                                 The annual amount of expenditure borne by the
                                                                 Community shall be decided by the Commission on
                                                                 the basis of information supplied by Greece.
                         Article 3
                                                                                              Article 6
For the purposes of this Regulation, the inspectors'             Detailed rules for the application of this Regulation
remuneration means their salaries and the travel                 shall be adopted where necessary, in accordance with
expenses necessary for the discharge of their duties.            the procedure laid down in Article 26 of Council
                                                                 Regulation (EEC) N o 2727/75 ( l ) or, as appropriate,
                                                                 in the corresponding Articles of the other Regulations
                         Article 4                               on the common organization of agricultural markets.
                                                                                              Article 7
1.    The inspectors' training must enable the persons
concerned to acquire sufficient knowledge for the                This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 July 1984.
performance of their duties.
                                                                 This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
                                                                 directly applicable in all Member States.
2.    The basic courses must comprise at least three
months of theoretical and practical training:                    0) O J N o L 2 8 1 , 1. 11. 1975, p. 1.
              Proposal for a Council Regulation authorizing Greece to grant aid for the transport of
                                          means of production to certain islands
                                                    COM(84) 192 final
                             (Submitted by the Commission to the Council on 10 May 1984)
                                                      (84/C 135/09)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                      Whereas, in order to remedy these holdings' natural
COMMUNITIES,                                                     handicaps, provision should be made, pending the
                                                                 development of transport infrastructure and the
                                                                 implementation of structural measures to be adopted
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the                     by the Council, for the grant, on a temporary and
European Economic Community, and in particular                   degressive basis, of aid to cover part of the cost of
Articles 42 and 43 thereof,                                      transporting certain means of agricultural production
                                                                 to the islands; whereas, however, such aid should not
                                                                 be for transport to Crete or Euboea; whereas these
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                 islands, one of them because of its size and the other
                                                                 because of its proximity to the mainland, do not have
Having regard to the opinion of the European Par-                the natural handicaps referred to above;
liament,
                                                                 Whereas the measures envisaged are of Community
Whereas the territory of Greece is split up into a               interest and are designed to achieve the objectives set
great number of islands; whereas this situation is not           out in Article 39 (1) (a) of the Treaty; whereas they
as a whole comparable to that of the other Member                therefore constitute a common measure within the
States;                                                          meaning of Article 6 of Council Regulation (EEC)
                                                                 No 729/70 of 21 April 1970 on the financing of the
                                                                 common agricultural policy (*), as last amended by
Whereas the configuration of Greek territory imposes
                                                                 Regulation (EEC) No 3509/80 (2),
on agricultural producers in the islands additional
costs which affect the productivity of their holdings
and in particular prevent an improvement in agri-                0) OJ No L 94, 28. 4. 1970, p. 13.
cultural practices;                                              O OJ No L 367, 31.12. 1980, p. 87.
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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:                                                            Article 7
                        Article 1                              The measures provided for in this Regulation shall
                                                               constitute a common measure within the meaning of
During the five-year period commencing on 1 July               Article 6 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70.
1984 Greece is hereby authorized to grant aid for the
transport of certain means of production of an agri-                                    Article 8
cultural nature from the mainland to the islands, with
the exception of Crete and Euboea.                             1.    The duration of the common measures shall be
                                                               five years from the entry into force of this Regu-
                        Article 2                              lation.
The aid shall be granted to agricultural producers             2.    The estimated cost to the European Agricultural
who, either individually or in association, purchase:          Guidance and Guarantee Fund of the common
                                                               measure shall be 17,7 million ECU for the period
— fertilizers,                                                 envisaged in paragraph 1.
— fuel,
                                                               3.    Article 6 (5) of Regulation (EEC) N o 729/70
— seeds,                                                       shall apply to this Regulation.
— compound feedingstuffs,
                                                                                        Article 9
— plant health and veterinary products,
                                                               1.     Expenditure incurred by Greece in connection
for use on holdings on the islands referred to in              with the measure provided for in this Regulation shall
Article 1.                                                     be eligible under the Guidance Section of the Fund.
                        Article 3                              2.    The Guidance Section of the Fund shall
                                                               reimburse to Greece 50 % of the eligible expenditure.
The aid shall be paid to recipients once it has been
proved, to the satisfaction of the competent auth-                                     Article 10
orities, that the means of production referred to in
Article 2 have been:                                           1.    Applications for reimbursement shall refer to
                                                               expenditure incurred by Greece in the course of a
— transported from the mainland, and                           calendar year and shall be submitted to the
— used on a holding on one of the islands in                   Commission before 1 July of the following year.
    question.
                                                               2.    Aid from the Fund shall be decided on in
                                                               accordance with Article 7 (1) of Regulation (EEC)
                        Article 4                              No 729/70.
The amount of the aid shall be equal, in the first year,
to 60 % of the cost of transport between the place of          3.    The Fund may grant advances.
shipment on the mainland and the island of
destination.                                                   4.     Detailed rules for the application of this Article
                                                               shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure
For the following years the aid shall be equal                 laid down in Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No
respectively to 50, 40, 30 and 20 °/o of the transport         729/70.
costs.
                                                                                       Article 11
                        Article 5
                                                               Where the procedure laid down in this Article is to be
Detailed rules for the application of the preceding            followed, the matter shall be referred to the Standing
Articles, in particular the rules concerning the grant         Committee on Agricultural Structure, either on the
of aid, shall be adopted in accordance with the                initiative of its chairman or at the request of the
procedure laid down in Article 11.                             representative of a Member State.
                        Article 6                              The representative of the Commission shall submit a
                                                               draft of the measures to be taken. The Committee
After the end of the third year of application of the          shall deliver its opinion within a period to be set by
aid scheme Greece shall send the Commission a                  the chairman according to the urgency of the matter.
report on the effects of the scheme on the use of              Opinions shall be adopted by a majority of 45 votes,
means of production in the islands.                            the votes of Member States being weighted in
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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.