Article 2U.K.Financial assistance to producer organisations for withdrawals

[F11. For the withdrawal operations referred to in Article 1(2)(a) Union financial assistance shall be available as follows:

(a) for market withdrawals for free distribution under Article 34(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 Union financial assistance shall be available for a maximum of 10 % of the volume of marketed production of each producer organisation;

(b) by way of derogation from the first subparagraph of Article 79(2) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011, for market withdrawals for destinations other than free distribution Union financial assistance shall be available for a maximum of 10 % of the volume of marketed production of peaches and nectarines of each producer organisation. However, amounts that are disposed of in one of the ways referred to in Article 34(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 or any other way approved by Member States under Article 80(2) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011 shall not be taken into account in that proportion.

The third subparagraph of Article 79(2) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011 shall not apply for the purposes of point (b) of the first subparagraph of this paragraph.]

[F21a. By way of derogation from Article 34(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, the Union financial assistance for withdrawal operations referred to in Article 1(2)(a) of this Regulation for destinations other than free distribution shall be 75 % of the maximum amounts of the support for other destinations referred to in Annex XI to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011.]

2.The Union financial assistance referred to in paragraph 1 shall be available to producer organisations even if they do not provide for such market withdrawal operations in their operational programmes. Article 32(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 shall not apply in relation to Union financial assistance under this Article.

3.The Union financial assistance referred to in paragraph 1 shall not be taken into account for the purpose of calculating the ceilings referred to in Article 34(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.

4.The ceiling of one third of expenditure referred to in the fourth subparagraph of Article 33(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and the 25 % maximum ceiling for the increase of the operational fund referred to in Article 66(3)(c) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011 shall not apply in respect of expenditure incurred for withdrawal operations referred to in Article 1(2)(a) of this Regulation.

5.Expenditure incurred in accordance with this Article shall form part of the operational fund of the producer organisations.