Commission Regulation (EC) No 1334/2002 (repealed)Show full title

Article 2 U.K. Conditions for the approval of operators' organisations in the olive sector

1. Member States shall approve operators' organisations in the olive sector which undertake to submit to any controls provided for in this Regulation and which meet certain conditions.

2. For the various kinds of operators' organisation in the olive sector, the conditions referred to in paragraph 1 shall be those indicated in points (a), (b), (c) and (d) respectively, whereby the minimum number of members and other minimum size criteria may be increased by the Member State concerned, and those laid down, where applicable, by the competent national authorities as regards operational capacities, available means and controls on operators' organisations in the olive sector.

(a) Producer organisations must be composed exclusively of olive producers who are not members of any other producer organisation approved under this Regulation which has received production aid as referred to in Article 5 of Regulation No 136/66/EEC for the year before the preceding marketing year or has lodged a crop declaration for the current marketing year; and

(i)

have at least 2 500 member producers or

(ii)

account for 2 % of olive producers or of average olive oil or table olive production in the regional areas concerned;

(b) Associations of producer organisations must be composed exclusively of producer organisations approved under point (a) which are not part of another association of producer organisations approved under this Regulation, and

(i)

have at least 10 member organisations which are established in several regional areas of the Member State concerned,

(ii)

or account for at least 15 % of the average production of olive oil or table olives in that Member State.

(c) Other operators' organisations in the olive sector must be composed exclusively of operators in the olive sector who are not part of another organisation approved under point (c) and, in the year preceding the current marketing year, either generated at least 50 % of their turnover from the processing of olives or the sale of olive oil or table olives, or marketed more than 5 000 tonnes of olive oil or more than 1 000 tonnes of table olives and have at least:

(i)

20 member operators marketing or processing a total quantity greater than the equivalent of 15 000 tonnes of olive oil or 3 000 tonnes of table olives,

(ii)

or 15 % of the average production of olive oil or table olives of the Member State concerned.

(d) Interbranch organisations recognised by the Member States in which they conduct their activities within the meaning of Article 4a(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1638/98 and which provide a broad and balanced representation of all economic activities linked to the production and processing of, and trade in, olive oil and/or table olives;

[F1 3. Without prejudice to Article 10(1) of this Regulation, operators organisations in the olive sector and associations thereof approved under Article 20c of Regulation No 136/66/EEC and other operators' organisations in the olive sector recognised by the Member State which submit a work programme in accordance with Article 5 shall be deemed approved under this Regulation where they meet the criteria referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2. However, associations of producer organisations may include a maximum of 10 % of producer organisations not approved under point (a) or a maximum of seven such organisations.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 631/2003 of 7 April 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 1334/2002 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1638/98 as regards the conditions for approval of and the time limits for work programmes of operators' organisations in the olive sector for the 2002/2003 and 2003/2004 marketing years.