Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 (repealed)Dangos y teitl llawn

[F1 Article 103d U.K. Community financial assistance

1. The Community financial assistance shall be equal to the amount of the financial contributions referred to in Article 103b(1)(a) as actually paid but limited to 50 % of the actual expenditure incurred.

2. The Community financial assistance shall be capped at 4,1 % of the value of the marketed production of each producer organisation.

However, that percentage may be increased to 4,6 % of the value of the marketed production provided that the amount in excess of 4,1 % of the value of the marketed production is used solely for crisis prevention and management measures.

3. At the request of a producer organisation, the percentage provided for in paragraph 1 shall be 60 % for an operational programme or part of an operational programme where it meets at least one of the following conditions:

(a) it is submitted by several Community producer organisations operating in different Member States on transnational schemes;

(b) it is submitted by one or more producer organisations engaged in schemes operated on an interbranch basis;

(c) it covers solely specific support for the production of organic products covered until 31 December 2008 , by Council Regulation (EEC) No 2092/91 of 24 June 1991 on organic production of agricultural products and indications referring thereto on agricultural products and foodstuffs (1) and, from 1 January 2009 , by Council Regulation (EC) No 834/2007 of 28 June 2007 on organic production and labelling of organic products (2) ;

(d) it is submitted by a producer organisation in one of the Member States which acceded to the European Union on 1 May 2004 or thereafter for measures running no later than the end of 2013;

(e) it is the first to be submitted by a recognised producer organisation which has merged with another recognised producer organisation;

(f) it is the first to be submitted by a recognised association of producer organisations;

(g) it is submitted by producer organisations in Member States where producer organisations market less than 20 % of fruit and vegetables production;

(h) it is submitted by a producer organisation in one of the outermost regions of the Community;

(i) it covers solely specific support for actions to promote the consumption of fruit and vegetables targeted at children in educational establishments.

4. The percentage provided for in paragraph 1 shall be 100 % in the case of market withdrawals of fruit and vegetables which shall not exceed 5 % of the volume of marketed production of each producer organisation and which are disposed of by way of:

(a) free distribution to charitable organisations and foundations, approved to that effect by the Member States, for use in their activities to assist persons whose right to public assistance is recognised in national law, in particular because they lack the necessary means of subsistence;

(b) free distribution to penal institutions, schools and public education institutions and to children’s holiday camps as well as to hospitals and old people’s homes designated by the Member States, which shall take all necessary steps to ensure that the quantities thus distributed are additional to the quantities normally bought in by such establishments.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Inserted by Council Regulation (EC) No 361/2008 of 14 April 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation).

(1)

[F1 OJ L 198, 22.7.1991, p. 1 . Regulation as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 123/2008 ( OJ L 38, 13.2.2008, p. 3 ).

(2)

OJ L 189, 20.7.2007, p. 1 .]

Textual Amendments

F1 Inserted by Council Regulation (EC) No 361/2008 of 14 April 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation).