28.10.2011 EN Official Journal of the European Union L 281/5
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 1085/2011
of 27 October 2011
amending Regulation (EC) No 501/2008 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 3/2008 on information provision and promotion measures for agricultural products on the internal market and in third countries
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION
,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to the Council Regulation (EC) No 3/2008 of 17 December 2007 on information provision and promotion measures for agricultural products on the internal market and in third countries (1), and in particular Article 15 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Commission Regulation (EC) No 501/2008 (2) provides rules for the drawing-up, selection, implementation, financing and checking of programmes referred to in Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 3/2008.
(2) To increase the efficiency of the scheme, trade and inter-trade organisations should be given the opportunity to submit programmes to be implemented twice a year on the internal market and in third countries. The submission and selection schedule should be adjusted in order to give another chance to programmes that have been rejected in the previous round. To ease the transition to a new submission and selection schedule, it should be provided that the schedule for the first submission of programmes in 2012 should not be affected by the schedule change.
(3) To reduce unnecessary administrative burden, the requirement to send to the Commission a number of documents (a copy of the contract concluded with proposing organisations and proof that a performance security has been lodged; a copy of the contract signed with the implementing body; a copy of each application for an advance payment and proof that the corresponding security has been lodged; and the quarterly reports on the implementation of the contract) should be abolished except if the Commission specifically requests it.
(4) It should be specified that messages referring to the impact on health of a product must be accepted by the national authority responsible for public health and that the material approved by a Member State should be sent to the Commission.
(5) Regulation (EC) No 501/2008 should therefore be amended accordingly.
(6) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural Markets,
Regulation (EC) No 501/2008 is amended as follows:
(1) in Article 4(3), the second subparagraph is replaced by the following:
(2) in Article 8(1), the second subparagraph is replaced by the following:
(3) Article 11 is amended as follows:
(a) in paragraph 1, the first subparagraph is replaced by the following:
(b) paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:
(a) the Union rules; or
(b) the guidelines, in the case of the internal market; or
(c) the criteria referred to in Article 9(2), in the case of third countries.’;
(c) in paragraph 3, the second subparagraph is replaced by the following:
(d) the following paragraph 5 is added:
(a) the list referred to in paragraph 1 shall be submitted by Member States and received by the Commission not later than 15 February 2012;
(b) the Commission shall send to the Member States the information provided in paragraph 2 by 26 April 2012; and
(c) the Commission shall decide no later than 30 June 2012 which programmes it may part-finance.’;
(4) in Article 16, paragraph 5 is replaced by the following:
(5) in Article 17(3), the first subparagraph is replaced by the following:
(6) in Article 22, paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:
(7) in Article 23(1), the second subparagraph is replaced by the following:
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.