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Official Journal of the European Union
22.9.2012
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 865/2012
of 21 September 2012
amending Regulation (EC) No 867/2008 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council
Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards operators’ organisations in the olive sector, their work
programmes and the financing thereof
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Article 11(2) of Regulation (EC) No 867/2008 until
30 September 2012, which would allow the beneficiaries
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
to reuse the securities lodged for the previous work
Union,
programmes and released in the meantime, provided
that all the relevant conditions are met.
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of
22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agri
(4) Regulation
(EC)
No
867/2008
should
be
amended
cultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agri
accordingly.
cultural products (Single CMO Regulation) ( 1 ), and in particular
the third subparagraph of Article 103(2) in conjunction with
(5) In
order
to
ensure
the
efficient
management
of
the
Article 4 thereof,
measure, this Regulation should enter into force on the
day following that of its publication in the Official Journal
Whereas:
of the European Union.
(1) Article
11
of
Commission
Regulation
(EC)
No (6) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Regulation
are
in
867/2008 (
accordance with the opinion of the Management

2 ) provides that the operators’ organisations
in the olive sector may receive, subject to the lodging
Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural
of a security, an advance of a maximum of 90 % of the
Markets,
eligible annual expenditure. To this end, the Member
State pays an initial instalment before the end of the
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
month following the month of the beginning of the
implementation of each year of the work programme.
Article 1
The following subparagraph is added to Article 11(2) of Regu
(2) However,
because
of
the
economic
crisis,
this
provision, lation (EC) No 867/2008:
which is intended to allow work to start quickly, has not
had the desired effect in Greece. In fact, in the wake of
the crisis, some operators’ organisations, having been
‘By way of derogation from the first subparagraph and for the
unable to lodge the security referred to in Article 11(4)
first year of implementation of the work programmes
of Regulation (EC) No 867/2008, were not eligible to
approved for the 2012-15 period, Greece may pay the oper
receive the advance referred to in paragraph 2 of that
ators’ organisations concerned, before 30 September 2012,
Article, and thus could not launch their programmes for
an initial instalment equal to half the amount referred to in
the 2012-15 period.
paragraph 1.’.

Article 2
(3) Under
these
circumstances,
this
Member
State
must
be
given exceptional permission to pay the initial instalment
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that
of the advance referred to in the first subparagraph of
of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 21 September 2012.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
( 1 ) OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1.
( 2 ) OJ L 237, 4.9.2008, p. 5.

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