Council Regulation (EC) No 1452/2001 (repealed)Show full title

Article 12 U.K.

1. Aid shall be granted in respect of the fruits, vegetables, flowers and live plants listed in Chapters 6, 7 and 8 of the Combined Nomenclature, the peppers and fruits of the genus Capsicum and of the genus Pimenta falling within CN code 0904 and the spices falling within CN code 0910 harvested in the FOD and intended to supply their domestic market. In Martinique and Guadeloupe the aid shall not be granted for bananas other than plantains falling within CN code 0803 00 11.

The aid shall be granted for products which conform to common standards fixed by Community legislation or, where no such standards exist, to specifications written into the supply contracts.

Grant of the aid shall be subject to the conclusion of supply contracts lasting one or more years between individual producers or producer groups, or producer organisations as referred to in Articles 11, 13 and 14 of Regulation (EC) No 2200/96(1) and distributors, restaurants and the like or local authorities.

The aid shall be paid out to the abovementioned individual producers, producer groups or producer organisations within the limits of annual quantities established for each product category.

The amount of the aid shall be fixed on a flat-rate basis for each of the product categories to be determined, based on the average value of the products covered. The amount of aid shall be differentiated according to whether or not the beneficiary is one of the producer organisations referred to in Articles 11, 13 and 14 of Regulation (EC) No 2200/96.

2. Aid amounting to EUR 6,04 per kilogram shall be paid out for the production of green vanilla falling within CN code ex 0905 00 00 and used to produce dried (black) vanilla or vanilla extracts.

The aid shall be paid out up to an annual maximum quantity of 75 tonnes.

3. Aid amounting to EUR 44,68 per kilogram shall be paid out for the production of essential geranium and vetiver oils, falling within CN codes 3301 21 and 3301 26 respectively.

The aid shall be paid up to an annual maximum of 30 tonnes in the case of geranium oil and 5 tonnes in the case of vetiver oil.

4. Detailed rules for applying this Article shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 23(2). The same procedure shall be used to fix the product categories and the amounts of aid referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article, and to review, where necessary, the maximum quantities referred to in paragraphs 2 and 3 thereof.

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Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 of 28 October 1996 on the common organisation of the market in fruit and vegetables (OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 1). Regulation last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2826/2000 (OJ L 328, 23.12.2000, p. 2).