CHAPTER IIIAPPLICATION FOR AND GRANTING OF RESTRUCTURING AID

F1Article 8aReceipt of grower’s application for restructuring aid

1.

The grower’s application shall be submitted to the competent authority of the Member State where the undertaking concerned is located either under the address listed for that Member State in Annex II or, where applicable, under any other address or by way of any other means of transmission communicated by the competent authority of the Member State concerned for this purpose. Each grower’s application shall be sent to only one address and shall contain the elements mentioned in Article 7a(1).

In the case where a grower submits more than one application in respect of the same product and the same undertaking, or the same application under more than one address, his application or applications shall be ineligible.

2.

Growers’ applications must be received at the competent authority between 0.00 hours on 30 October 2007 and 24.00 hours on 30 November 2007 . The relevant time shall be local time at the place of destination. Applications received before 30 October 2007 or after 30 November 2007 shall be disregarded.

3.

For the purpose of the application of Article 4a(3) of Regulation (EC) No 320/2006, the Member States shall establish a provisional calculation of the amount of quota affected by growers’ applications. The details of the growers’ applications, especially the identity of the applicants, shall not be divulged to any third party.

The communications provided for in Article 4a(3) of Regulation (EC) No 320/2006 shall contain all amounts of delivery rights to be ceased for which applications have been submitted.