Commission Regulation (EC) No 52/2002 of 11 January 2002 amending Regulation (EC) No 245/2001 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1673/2000 on the common organisation of the markets in flax and hemp grown for fibre

• Published date: 12 January 2002
• Subject Matter: lino e canapa,lino y cáñamo,lin et chanvre
• Official Gazette Publication: Gazzetta ufficiale delle Comunità europee, L 10, 12 gennaio 2002,Diario Oficial de las Comunidades Europeas, L 10, 12 de enero de 2002,Journal officiel des Communautés européennes, L 10, 12 janvier 2002

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Commission Regulation (EC) No 52/2002 of 11 January 2002 amending Regulation (EC) No 245/2001 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1673/2000 on the common organisation of the markets in flax and hemp grown for fibre

Official Journal L 010 , 12/01/2002 P. 0010 - 0011

Commission Regulation (EC) No 52/2002

of 11 January 2002

amending Regulation (EC) No 245/2001 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1673/2000 on the common organisation of the markets in flax and hemp grown for fibre

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1673/2000 of 27 July 2000 on the common organisation of the markets in flax and hemp grown for fibre(1), and in particular Article 9 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) The second indent of Article 3(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 245/2001 of 5 February 2001 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1673/2000 on the common organisation of the markets in flax and hemp grown for fibre(2), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 1093/2001(3), provides that primary processors must undertake to keep daily records of stocks for the operations that they carry out. To make stock account management less cumbersome, primary processors should also be allowed the possibility of recording operations by lot. To that end, the term "lot" should be defined.

(2) To prevent distortions of competition, the scope for authorised primary processors to use more than one cleaner of short flax fibre should be extended. However, given the need to maintain an adequate level of control, that scope should be limited to a maximum of two cleaners of short flax fibre per authorised primary processor and marketing year.

(3) Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 245/2001 provides that each application for an advance is subject to the lodging of a security, which may mean in some cases that five different securities are lodged in the processing period relating to the same marketing year. This system should therefore be simplified by providing for a security, calculated on the basis of the theoretical amount of aid to which each primary processor is entitled, to be lodged with the first application for an advance and to continue to be valid for the entire processing period in...