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Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 of 17 May 1999 on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) and amending and repealing certain Regulations · European Union

Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 of 28 October 1996 on the common organisation of the market in fruit and vegetables(26) is hereby amended as follows: Article 15(6) shall be replaced by the following: "6. In regions of the Community where the degree of organisation of producers is particularly low, Member States may be authorised, on a duly substantiated request, to pay producer organisations national financial assistance equal to a maximum of half the financial contributions of producers. This assistance shall be additional to the operational fund. For Member States where producer organisations market less than 15 % of the fruit and vegetable production and whose fruit and vegetable production represents at least 15 % of their total agricultural output, the assistance referred to in the first subparagraph may be partly reimbursed by the Community at the request of the Member State concerned". Article 52 shall be replaced by the following: 1. Expenditure relating to the payment of the Community withdrawal compensation and to Community financing of the operational fund, the specific measures referred to in Article 17 and Articles 53, 54 and 55 and checks by experts of the Member States made available to the Commission in application of Article 40(1) shall be deemed to be intervention to stabilise agricultural markets within the meaning of Article 1(2)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999(27). 2. Expenditure relating to the aid granted by the Member States in accordance with Article 14 and the second subparagraph of Article 15(6) shall be deemed to be intervention to stabilise agricultural markets within the meaning of Article 1(2)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999. It shall be eligible for part financing by the Community. 3. The Commission shall, following the procedure laid down in Article 46, adopt rules for the application of paragraph 2 of this Article. 4. The provisions of Title VI shall apply without prejudice to the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 4045/89 of 21 December 1989 on scrutiny by Member States of transactions forming part of the system of financing by the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund and repealing Directive 77/435/EEC(28). . "

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-08 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.