Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/892Show full title

CHAPTER II CRISIS PREVENTION AND MANAGEMENT MEASURES

Article 13 Training measures and exchanges of better practices

Member States shall adopt provisions on the conditions to be fulfilled by training measures and exchanges of better practices to be considered as crisis prevention and management measures.

Article 14 Promotion and communication measures

1. Member States shall adopt provisions on the conditions to be fulfilled by promotion and communication measures, whether those measures relate to crisis prevention or crisis management. Those provisions shall allow for the rapid application of the measures when required.

2. Actions under promotion and communication measures shall be additional to any ongoing promotion and communication actions not related to crisis prevention and management being applied by the producer organisation concerned in their operational programme.

Article 15 Marketing standards of products withdrawn

1. A product withdrawn from the market shall comply with the marketing standard for that product as referred to in Title II of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011, except for the provisions on the presentation and marking of products. Where products are withdrawn in bulk, the minimum requirements for class II shall be complied with.

However, miniature produce as defined in the relevant standard shall comply with the applicable marketing standard, including the provisions on the presentation and marking of products.

2. If a marketing standard is not laid down for a given product, the minimum requirements set out in Annex III shall be met. Member States may lay down additional rules supplementing those minimum requirements.

Article 16 Transport costs for free distribution

1. The costs of transport by land for the free distribution of all products withdrawn from the market shall be eligible under the operational programme on the basis of the scale of unit costs set according to the distance between the point of withdrawal and the place of delivery as set out in Annex IV.

In the case of sea transport, Member States shall determine the distance between the point of withdrawal and the place of final delivery. The compensation may not exceed the cost of land transport over the shortest route between the place of loading and the point of final delivery where land transport is possible. A correcting coefficient of 0,6 shall be applied to the amounts as set out in Annex IV.

In case of combined transport, the applicable transport cost shall be the sum of the cost corresponding to the distance of transport by land plus 60 % of the cost's increase if the total distance of transport had been by land, as set out in Annex IV.

2. The transport costs shall be paid to the party which actually bears the financial cost of the transport operation in question.

Payment shall be subject to the presentation of supporting documents certifying in particular:

(a) the names of the beneficiary organisations;

(b) the quantity of the products concerned;

(c) acceptance by the beneficiary organisations and the means of transport used; and

(d) the distance between the place of withdrawal and the place of delivery.

Article 17 Sorting and packing costs for free distribution

1. The costs of sorting and packaging fruit and vegetables withdrawn from the market for free distribution shall be eligible under operational programmes. For products in packages of less than 25 kilograms net weight the flat-rate amounts set out in Annex V shall apply.

2. Packages of products for free distribution shall display the European emblem together with one or more of the statements set out in Annex VI.

3. The costs of sorting and packaging shall be paid to the producer organisations which have carried out those operations.

Payment shall be subject to the presentation of supporting documents certifying in particular:

(a) the names of the beneficiary organisations;

(b) the quantity of the products concerned; and

(c) acceptance by the beneficiary organisations, specifying the presentation.