CHAPTER 4AID APPLICATIONS AND PAYMENT
Article 18Date of lodging of aid applications
1.
Within 45 days of the end of the month, processing undertakings shall lodge applications for aid as referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1786/2003 covering the quantities leaving the undertaking during that month.
2.
Except in cases of force majeure or exceptional circumstances:
(a)
the submission of an aid application after the time limit referred to in paragraph 1 shall lead to a reduction of 1 % per working day in the amounts to which the undertaking would have been entitled if the application had been lodged within the time limit;
(b)
if the delay amounts to more than 25 days the application shall be considered inadmissible.
F13.
By way of derogation from paragraph 1, no aid applications for a marketing year may be submitted after 30 April following the end of the marketing year in question, except in cases of force majeure or exceptional circumstances.
Article 19Content of applications
1.
Aid applications shall include at least:
(a)
the applicant’s first name, surname, address and signature;
(b)
the quantities covered by the aid application, broken down by lot;
(c)
the date on which each quantity left the undertaking;
(d)
confirmation that samples were taken of each lot in accordance with Article 10(3) on leaving the undertaking or when the dried fodder was mixed in, and any particulars required to identify the samples;
(e)
a list by lot of any additives, specifying the type, name, total nitrogenous matter content in the dry matter and rate of incorporation in the finished product;
(f)
in the case of mixtures, the total crude protein content in each lot of the fodder dried by the undertaking, after deduction of the total nitrogenous matter content provided by the additives.
2.
The aid shall be granted to processing undertakings solely in respect of fodder dried and/or ground on its premises, less the weight of additives.
Article 20Advance payments
1.
In order to qualify for an advance in accordance with Article 7(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1786/2003, the applicant shall accompany the aid application by a certificate showing that the corresponding security has been lodged.
2.
Member States shall take the necessary measures for checking entitlement to the aid within 90 days of the date the application is lodged.
Article 21Final amount of the aid
1.
The Commission shall fix, in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 18(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1786/2003, the final amount of the aid referred to in Article 4(2) of that Regulation. This amount shall be calculated on the basis of the notifications from the Member States, in accordance with the second subparagraph of Article 33(1) of this Regulation.
2.
Where, as a result of subsequent checks, one or more Member States submits a second, duly substantiated, notification in accordance with the second subparagraph of Article 33(1) correcting the first upward, the second notification will be taken into consideration only if the final amount of the aid, calculated on the basis of the first notification, is not affected. The quantities of dried fodder which are not taken into consideration as a result will, in that case, be allocated to the following marketing year.
3.
The balance provided for in Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1786/2003 shall be paid, where appropriate, within 60 days of the date on which the Commission publishes the final amount of the aid for the marketing year concerned in the Official Journal of the European Union.
F2Article 22F2Exchange rate
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