Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 (repealed)Show full title

Article 6 U.K.

1. Member States shall:

(a) decide whether to grant recognition within three months of the submission of an application with all relevant supporting documents;

(b) carry out checks at regular intervals to ascertain that producer organisations comply with the terms and conditions for recognition; recognition of a producer organisation may be withdrawn if the conditions set out in Article 5 are no longer fulfilled or if recognition is based on wrong information; if the organisation obtains or benefits from recognition by fraudulent means, recognition shall immediately be withdrawn retroactively;

(c) notify the Commission, within two months, of any decision to grant, refuse or withdraw recognition.

2. A Member State shall grant recognition to a producer organisation which has its official headquarters on its territory but some of whose members are nationals of one or more other Member States, provided the conditions laid down in Article 5 are complied with.

Member States whose nationals are members of a producer organisation established in the territory of another Member State shall set up, in collaboration with the latter, the administrative cooperation needed to carry out checks on the activities of the organisation concerned.

3. Member States may recognise a single producer organisation exclusively for a specific fishing area if it is found to be representative according to the criteria set under Article 7(1).

4. Member States may grant recognition to an association of producer organisations provided it complies with the conditions laid down in Article 5. However, Articles 9 and 10 shall not apply to such associations.

5. In order to ensure that Article 5 and paragraph (1)(b) of this Article are complied with, the Commission shall carry out checks and in the light of such checks may, where appropriate, request that Member States withdraw recognition.

6. At the beginning of each year the Commission shall publish in the ‘C’ series of the Official Journal of the European Communities a list of the producer organisations recognised during the previous year and those from which recognition has been withdrawn during the same period.

7. Detailed rules for the application of this Article, in particular the conditions for withdrawal of recognition, shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 38(2).