Council Regulation (EC) No 320/2006 (repealed)Show full title

Article 4 Application for restructuring aid

1. Applications for restructuring aid shall be submitted to the Member State concerned by 31 January preceding the marketing year during which the quota is to be renounced.

However, applications in respect of the marketing year 2006/2007 shall be submitted by 31 July 2006.

2. Applications for restructuring aid shall include:

(a) a restructuring plan;

(b) a confirmation that the restructuring plan has been prepared in consultation with the sugar beet, cane and chicory growers;

(c) a commitment to renounce the relevant quota in the marketing year concerned;

(d) in the case referred to in Article 3(1)(a), a commitment to fully dismantle the production facilities within the period to be determined by the Member State concerned;

(e) in the case referred to in Article 3(1)(b), a commitment to partially dismantle the production facilities within the period to be determined by the Member State concerned and not to use the production site and the remaining production facilities for the production of products covered by the common market organisation for sugar;

(f) in the cases referred to in Article 3(1)(a) and Article 3(1)(b), a commitment to meet the requirements provided for in, respectively, Article 3(3)(c) and Article 3(4)(c) within the period to be determined by the Member State concerned;

(g) in the case referred to in Article 3(1)(c), if applicable, a commitment not to use the production facilities for refining raw sugar.

The respect of the commitments under points (c) to (g) shall be subject to a decision granting the aid as referred to in Article 5(1).

3. The restructuring plan referred to in paragraph 2(a) shall include at least the following elements:

(a) a presentation of the purposes and the actions foreseen, demonstrating a sound economic balance between them and their consistency with the objectives of the restructuring fund and of the rural development policy in the region concerned as approved by the Commission;

(b) the aid to be granted to growers of sugar beet, cane or chicory and, if appropriate, machinery contractors in accordance with Article 3(6);

(c) a complete technical description of the production facilities concerned;

(d) a business plan detailing the modalities, timetable and costs for the closure of the factory or factories and the full or partial dismantling of the production facilities;

(e) if appropriate, the scheduled investments;

(f) a social plan detailing the actions planned in particular with respect to re-training, redeployment and early retirement of the workforce concerned and, if applicable, national specific requirements provided for in accordance with Article 3(3)(c) or Article 3(4)(c);

(g) an environmental plan detailing the actions planned in particular to respect mandatory environmental obligations and, if applicable, national specific requirements provided for in accordance with Article 3(3)(c) or Article 3(4)(c);

(h) a financial plan detailing all the costs in relation to the restructuring plan.