CELEX: 31974R1192
Language: en
Date: 1974-05-13 00:00:00
Title: Regulation (EEC) No 1192/74 of the Council of 13 May 1974 on aid for dehydrated fodder

14. 5. 74                            Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 131 / 1
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                                           (Acts whose publication is obligatory)
                             REGULATION (EEC) No 1192/74 OF THE COUNCIL
                                                     of 13 May 1974
                                              on aid for dehydrated fodder
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN                                      authorized to take, for a limited period, measures dero­
COMMUNITIES,                                                     gating from those provided for in this Regulation,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Economic Community ;                                             HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION :
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
 1067/74 (^ of 30 April 1974 on the common organiza­                                        Article 1
tion of the market for dehydrated fodder, and in parti­
cular Article 3 (4) and Article 4 (4) thereof ;                  The aid shall be granted only for dehydrated foddet
                                                                 from drying plants fulfilling the following conditions :
 Having regard to the proposal from the Commission ;
                                                                 (a) maximum moisture content of between 1 1 and
Whereas criteria relative to the minimum quality of                   14 % which may be varied according to the form
dehydrated fodder entitled to aid, based essentially on               of presentation of the product ;
 commercial usage, should be determined ;                        (b) minimum crude protein content in dry matter of
                                                                      between 14 and 16 % .
Whereas drying plants should fulfil the necessary                                                                     \
 conditions to establish entitlement to aid ; whereas it
                                                                 However, additional conditions, in particular as
 is therefore , laid down that these plants should keep          regards crude fibre and carotene content may be
 account including the details necessary for verification        adopted in accordance with the procedure provided
 of entitlement to aid and should furnish any other              for in Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 1067/74.
 necessary proof ;
 Whereas, where there are no contracts between the                                           Article 2
 producers and the drying plants, other information
 should be furnished by the latter for the purpose of            The aid shall be granted only to those drying plants
 verification of entitlement to aid ;                             which :
 Whereas the contracts should, on the one hand,                   (a) keep accounts which include at least details :
 promote regular supplies for the drying plants and, on               — of the quantities of fodder to be dehydrated, or
 the other likewise permit the producers to benefit                        failing this, estimated on the basis of the areas,
 from the aid ; whereas, to this end, it should be laid
 down that the contracts include certain information                   — of the quantities of dehydrated fodder
 and in particular the price ;                                             produced as well as of the amount and quality
                                                                        " of the dehydrated fodder leaving the drying
 Whereas the efficient management of the^ aid system                       plant ;
  requires verification to ensure that the aid is granted         (b) supply, where appropriate, other documentary
  only for thoSe products which are entitled to it ;                   evidence required to verify entitlement to aid.
 Whereas, in view of the delay to the starting date of
  the 1974/75 marketing year, the implementation at                                          Article 3
  that date of the system provided for in this Regulation
  could meet with certain difficulties ; whereas, to over­        Without prejudice to Article 2, plants processing their
  come those problems, the Member States should be                 own production or that of their members shall submit
                                                                   each year, to the authority designated by the Member
  0) OJ No L 120, 1 . 5. 1974, p. 2.                               State, by a date to be determined, a declaration of the
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areas the fodder harvest of which is destined for dehy­       — the conditions set out in the above Articles have
dration .                                                          been complied with,
                         Article 4                            — the output from the plant of dehydrated fodder
                                                                   meeting the minimum quality requirement corres­
1 . The contracts referred to in Article 3 (2), third              ponds to the quantity for which aid has been
indent, of Regulation (EEC) No ,1067/74 shall cover :              requested.
(a) purchase by drying plants of fodder to be dehy­
     drated which has been produced in the course of           2. The weight of the dehydrated fodder shall be
     one or more marketing years ; or                          determined and samples of the product taken as it
                                                               leaves the drying plant.
(b) supply of the above products to these plants with a
     view to the production of dehydrated fodder on
     behalf of farmers .                                                              Article 6
2.     The contracts shall state at least :
                                                               1 . If at the start of the 1974/75 marketing year the
(a) the price agreed, taking into account the amount           implementation of the system provided for in the
     of the aid :                                              above Articles meets with serious difficulties, Member
     — in the case referred to in paragraph 1 (a), with        States may, for the period from 15 May to 30 June
          the farmer concerned,                                1 974, derogate from the measures provided for in Arti­
                                                               cles 2 to 5 of this Regulation, with the object of
     — in the case referred to in paragraph 1 (b), with        ensuring that only those products that qualify for aid
          the drying plant concerned ;                         benefit from it.
(b) the estimated quantities of fodder to be supplied,
     or the areas the harvest of which, destined for           2. When paragraph 1 is "applied, the Member States
     dehydration, is covered by the contract in ques­          in question shall forthwith inform the Commission of
     tion ;                                                    the measures taken by them .
(c) conditions of supply and payment.
                                                                                       Article 7
                         Article 5
 1 . The Member States shall set up' a supervisory             This Regulation shall enter into force on 15 May
 system in order to verify, for each plant, whether :           1974.
                This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member
                States .
                Done at Brussels, 13 May 1974.
                                                                           For the Council
                                                                            The President
                                                                                J. ERTL