Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 179/2014 of 6 November 2013 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 228/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the register of operators, the amount of aid for the marketing of products outside the region, the logo, the exemption from import duties for certain bovine animals and the financing of certain measures relating to specific measures for agriculture in the outermost regions of the Union

4.3.2014 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 63/3
COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) No 179/2014
of 6 November 2013
supplementing Regulation (EU) No 228/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to the register of operators, the amount of aid for the marketing of products outside the region, the logo, the exemption from import duties for certain bovine animals and the financing of certain measures relating to specific measures for agriculture in the outermost regions of the Union
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 228/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 March 2013 laying down specific measures for agriculture in the outermost regions of the Union and repealing Council Regulation (EC) No 247/2006 (1), and in particular the second subparagraph of Article 12(2), the third subparagraph of Article 19(4), Article 21(3), the second subparagraph of Article 27(2) and Article 30(4) thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Regulation (EU) No 228/2013 has repealed and replaced Council Regulation (EC) No 247/2006 (2). Regulation (EU) No 228/2013 empowers the Commission to adopt delegated and implementing acts. In order to ensure the smooth functioning of the scheme in the new legal framework, certain rules have to be adopted by means of such acts. The new rules should replace the implementing rules of Commission Regulation (EC) No 793/2006 (3).
(2) In order to ensure that operators fully exercise their rights to participate in the specific supply arrangements, the conditions for recording them in the register of operators should be determined. Registered operators should be entitled to benefit from the arrangements provided that they meet the obligations laid down in Union and national rules. Applicants should be entitled to registration provided that they meet a certain number of objective requirements designed to facilitate the administration of the scheme.
(3) In order to support the marketing of products outside the region in which they are produced, the conditions for establishing the amount of aid awarded in respect of such products and, where appropriate, the conditions for establishing the quantities of products subject to that aid should be established. Consequently, additional rules should be laid down relating to the support for the marketing of certain local products determining the conditions for establishing the maximum amount of aid to be awarded and the maximum quantities of products that can be subject to that aid.
(4) In order to ensure greater awareness and consumption of processed and unprocessed quality agricultural products specific to the outermost regions of the Union, the conditions for the use of the logo, in particular the drafting of the list of natural and processed agricultural products which may bear the logo and the definition of the quality characteristics, methods of production, packaging and manufacture of processed products should be proposed by the trade organisations in the outermost regions. Those conditions should be specified by reference to existing standards in Union rules or, in the absence of those, to international standards, or by reference to traditional methods of cultivation and manufacture.
(5) In order to make the best possible use of the logo available to producers and manufacturers of quality products specific to the outermost regions, and in the interests of simplifying management and control and making them more effective, the right to use the logo should be conferred on operators established in those regions who are directly responsible for the production, packaging, marketing and manufacture of the products concerned and who give an undertaking to fulfill certain obligations.
(6) In order to allow operators to benefit from the exemption from import duties for young male bovine animals originating from third countries and intended for fattening and consumption in the French overseas departments or Madeira, as referred to in Article 27(1) of Regulation (EU) No 228/2013, certain conditions for that exemption need to be established. The exemption should be limited to young male bovine animals intended for fattening during a minimum period of 120 days in the outermost region concerned and should be subject to the lodging of a security.
(7) In order to ensure a reasonable and proportional allocation of the financing with regard to studies, demonstration projects, training and technical assistance measures, the conditions for determining the maximum annual amount which may be allocated to those measures should be established.
(8) For the sake of clarity and legal certainty, Regulation (EC) No 793/2006 should be repealed,