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1 . 6 . 76 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 143/ 1

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

• COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1257/76 of 31 May 1976 on the detailed rules with respect to aid for durum wheat during the 1976/77 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN minimum number of particulars to enable Member COMMUNITIES, States to make the necessary checks ; whereas Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 1147/76 provides for a spot Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European check of the accuracy of statements ; whereas to be Economic Community, effective a sufficiently representative number of appli­ cations for aid should be checked ; whereas pursuant to Article 4 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1134/68 of 30 July 1968 laying down rules for the 2727/75 of 29 October 1975 on the common organiza­ implementation of Regulation (EEC) No 653/68 on tion of the market in cereals ('), as last amended by conditions for alterations to the value of the unit of Regulation ( EEC) No 1 1 43 /76 ( 2), and in particular account used for the common agricultural policy (4), Article 10 (5) thereof, the amount of the aid is converted into national currency at the rate prevailing on the date the transac­ Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1147/76 of 17 tion or part transaction is carried out ; whereas under May 1976 (3), laid down general rules with respect to Article 6 thereof the time when a transaction is aid for durum wheat ; whereas the Commission carried out is considered as being the date of the event should lay down the detailed rules for their applica­ giving entitlement ; whereas the event giving entitle­ tion ; ment to aid for durum wheat occurs on harvest ; whereas, faced with the difficulty of determining the Whereas, since the time of harvest for durum wheat is exact date of harvest in each case, the first day of the approaching in some Member States provision should marketing year for which there is entitlement to aid be made as soon as possible for administrative should be considered as the representative date of measures in respect of granting this aid while limiting harvest ; them to practical possibilities during the 1976/77 marketing year ; whereas, further, the experiments Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation needed to define quality and technical characteristics are in accordance with the opinion of the Manage­ and to establish a list of seed varieties according to ment Committee for Cereals, these characteristics are still under way ; whereas, therefore, such definition should be deferred to a later date ;

Whereas pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : No 1 147/ 76 Member States are to institute an adminis­ trative control system to ensure that the product for which aid is requested meets the conditions laid down for the granting thereof ; whereas in view of the Article 1 special situation of the 1976/ 77 marketing year a state­ ment concerning the area sown must be coupled with For the 1976/77 marketing year the aid referred to in a statement regarding the area harvested and Article 10 of Regulation ( EEC) No 2727/75 shall be submitted together with the application for aid by the granted for durum wheat produced in the Community producer ; whereas this application must contain a in accordance with the conditions set out in the following Articles . (') OJ No L 281 , 1 . 1 i . 1975, p . 1 . (-') OJ No L 130 , 19 . 5 . 1976, p . 1 . (3 ) OJ No L 130 , 19 . 5 . 1976, p . 1 1 (<) OJ No L 188 , 1 . 8 . 1968 , p. 1 .

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Article 2 to be fixed for each Member State and by 30 September 1976 at the latest. In order to be eligible for the aid the durum wheat shall be of a certain quality and have certain technical 2. The application for aid shall include at least the characteristics or shall have been produced from the following particulars : seed of certain varieties. These qualities and character­ — the name, forenames and address of the applicant, istics and the list of these varieties shall be fixed — the areas harvested in hectares and in ares, the before 15 June 1976 . cadastral reference of such areas or an indication recognized as equivalent by the agency responsible Article 3 for checking the areas, The aid shall be granted only for areas : — the variety of seed used. (a) within : Article 5 — the regions laid down in the Annex to Regula­ tion (EEC) No 1144/76, The check provided for in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 1147/76 shall cover at least a representative — less-favoured agricultural areas within the proportion of the applications submitted, taking into meaning of Council Directive 75/268/EEC on account the geographical distribution of the areas mountain and hill farming and farming in concerned . certain less-favoured areas, considered as such on 1 August 1976 ; Article 6 (b) which were fully sown and harvested and which have been normally farmed ; 1 . The Member State shall pay the amount of the aid for durum wheat by 31 July 1977 at the latest. (c) for which an application has been submitted in accordance with Article 4. This application shall 2. Within the meaning of Article 6 of Regulation be equivalent to a declaration of the areas sown (EEC) No 1 134/68 , the date of the event giving entitle­ and the areas harvested . ment shall be considered to be 1 August 1976.

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1 . All producers of durum wheat concerned shall This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day submit an application for aid after the harvest to the following its publication in the Official Journal of competent agency in each Member State before a date the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States .

Done at Brussels, 31 May 1976.

For the Commission P.J. LARDINOIS Member of the Commission