CHAPTER IVOTHER AIDS FROM THE RESTRUCTURING FUND

Article 14National restructuring programmes

1.

By 31 December 2006 and by 30 September 2007, 2008 and 2009, the Member States concerned shall notify to the Commission their national restructuring programmes, detailing the measures to be undertaken within the limit of the amount of the aid for diversification determined pursuant to Article 13(2)(a), the amount of the additional aid for diversification determined pursuant to Article 13(2)(b) and the amount for transitional aid to certain member States referred to in Article 13(2)(c).

2.

National restructuring programmes shall include at least the following elements:

(a)

a summary of the main objectives, measures, actions, costs, financing interventions and time schedules provided for in each of the regions concerned;

(b)

a description of the regions concerned and an analysis of the problems linked to the restructuring of the sugar sector;

(c)

a presentation of the purposes and the actions or measures foreseen, demonstrating their consistency with the eligible restructuring plans referred to in Article 9, the rural development policy in the regions concerned and other measures undertaken or foreseen in these regions, in particular under other Community funds;

(d)

a time schedule of all the actions or measures provided for and the criteria followed to differentiate them from similar actions or measures intended to be financed by other Community funds;

(e)

if appropriate, the amount of the additional aid for diversification to be granted to growers of sugar beet or cane giving up their production and the objective and non-discriminatory criteria to be followed to distribute that aid;

(f)

a financial plan detailing all the costs by action or measure and the timetable foreseen for the payments.

F13.

The actions and measures provided for in a national restructuring programme shall be implemented by 30 September 2011 .