CHAPTER IIIAPPLICATION FOR AND GRANTING OF RESTRUCTURING AID
Article 7Application for restructuring aid
1.
Each application for restructuring aid shall cover one product and one marketing year.
2.
By way of derogation from paragraph 1, where a quota to be renounced has been partly fulfilled by a production carried forward or withdrawn from the previous marketing year, the undertaking may renounce the full quota for the factory or factories concerned, under full or partial dismantling, in the following two steps:
(a)
as from the first marketing year concerned by the application, the part of the quota for which there is no production shall be renounced with a request for the amount of restructuring aid for full or partial dismantling applicable to that marketing year;
(b)
the remaining part of the quota concerned shall be subject to the temporary restructuring amount provided for in Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 320/2006 and shall be renounced as from the next marketing year with a request for the amount of restructuring aid for full or partial dismantling applicable to that marketing year.
In the case of application of this paragraph, the undertaking may submit one single application for the two marketing years concerned.
3.
The application for restructuring aid shall specify the amount of allocated quota to be renounced for each of the factories of the undertaking concerned and shall be consistent with the relevant collective agreements, including agreements concluded by the social partners at sector or company level related to the restructuring of the sugar industry.
F14.
The social plan referred to in the third subparagraph of Article 4a(4) of Regulation (EC) No 320/2006 shall be submitted by 31 January 2008 at the latest. The social plan shall set-out the impact of the quota reduction triggered by the growers’ applications on the workforce and actions and measures foreseen in favour of the workforce, as well as the costs involved.