Commission Regulation (EC) No 1334/2002 of 23 July 2002 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1638/98 as regards the work programmes of operators organisations in the olive sector for the marketing years 2002/03 and 2003/04

• Coming into Force: 01 November 2002,31 July 2002
• End of Effective Date: 26 December 2005
• Celex Number: 32002R1334
• ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2002/1334/oj
• Published date: 24 July 2002
• Date: 23 July 2002
• Official Gazette Publication: Official Journal of the European Communities, L 195, 24 July 2002

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Commission Regulation (EC) No 1334/2002 of 23 July 2002 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1638/98 as regards the work programmes of operators organisations in the olive sector for the marketing years 2002/03 and 2003/04

Official Journal L 195 , 24/07/2002 P. 0016 - 0021

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1334/2002

of 23 July 2002

laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1638/98 as regards the work programmes of operators organisations in the olive sector for the marketing years 2002/03 and 2003/04

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1638/98 of 20 July 1998 amending Regulation No 136/66/EEC on the establishment of a common organisation of the market in oils and fats(1), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1513/2001(2), and in particular the second indent of the first subparagraph of Article 4a(3) and Article 4a(4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Article 4a(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1638/98 provides that, under the common organisation of the market in oils and fats, in force as from 1 November 2002, Member States producing olive oil may withhold within certain limits a portion of aid, where appropriate intended for olive oil and/or table olive producers, to ensure Community finance of work programmes drawn up by approved operators' organisations. It should be laid down that the work programmes in question cover the marketing years 2002/03 and 2003/04 only, in accordance with Regulation No 136/66/EEC of the Council of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a common organisation of the market in oils and fats(3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1513/2001.

(2) To ensure that approved operators' organisations are effective, approval must relate to the various categories of operators having a major impact in the olive oil and/or table olives sectors, while ensuring that those organisations are large enough to obtain economically significant results. Member States should also be able, with respect to local situations, to lay down additional approval criteria to ensure that the approved organisations have sufficient capacity.

(3) To ensure efficient administrative management of the system of approved operators' organisations in the olive sector, the procedures and time limits for the approval of such organisations, the criteria for selecting their work programmes and the arrangements for paying Community funding should be laid down.

(4) To ensure overall consistency between the activities of approved operators' organisations in the olive sector, it is necessary to lay down the types of activities that are eligible for Community funding and the selection criteria for the work programmes. The Member States concerned should, however, be allowed to lay down additional eligibility conditions so as to gear activities more closely to national realities in the olive sector.

(5) To allow work to commence in good time, operators' organisations in the olive sector should be able to receive an advance on the approved Community funding, subject to the lodging of a security under the terms laid down by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2220/85 of 22 July 1985 laying down common detailed rules for the application of the system of securities for agricultural products(4), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1932/1999(5).

(6) For the purposes of proper management of the rules on operators' organisations in the olive sector, the Member States concerned should draw up a control plan and specify a system of penalties for any irregularities committed. Provision should also be made for operators' organisations to notify the results of their work to the national authorities in the Member States concerned and to transmit those results to the Commission.

(7) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Oils and Fats,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Purpose and definitions

1. This Regulation lays down, for the marketing years 2002/03 and 2003/04, detailed rules for the application of Article 4a(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1638/98 as regards the approval of and the work programmes drawn up by producer organisations and associations thereof, interbranch organisations and other operators' organisations in the olive oil and table olives sectors as referred to in that paragraph.

2. For the purposes of this Regulation:

(a) (a) "operators' organisation in the olive sector" means an organisation or association as referred to in Article 4a(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1638/98;

(b) (b) "regional area" means an area as defined in the Annex to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2366/98(6), and the area constituted by the rest of the territory in each producer Member State. In the case of Italy the following are also deemed regional areas:

- Liguria, Piedmont and Valle d'Aosta, or

- Lombardy, Trentino-Alto Adige, Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia, or

- Umbria, Marche and Emilia-Romagna, or

- Basilicata, or

- Sardinia, or

- Abruzzi and Molise.

Article 2

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...