1.   For the purposes of applying Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1405/2006, Greece shall determine within the context of the programme the amount of the aid to be granted in order to compensate for remoteness, insularity and distant location, taking into account:

2.   No aid shall be granted for the supply of products in a smaller island which has already benefited from the specific supply arrangements in another smaller island.

1.   The aid provided for in Article 4(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1405/2006 shall be paid on presentation of a certificate, hereinafter referred to as an ‘aid certificate’, which has been fully utilised and is accompanied by the purchase invoice and the original or a certified copy of the bill of lading or airway bill.

Presenting an aid certificate to the competent authorities shall be tantamount to applying for the aid. Except in cases of force majeure or climatic aberrations, certificates must be presented within 30 days of the date on which they are charged. Where that time limit is overrun, the aid shall be reduced by 5 % per day of delay.

The aid shall be paid by the competent authorities not later than 90 days after the date on which the utilised aid certificate is lodged, except in one of the following cases:

2.   Aid certificates shall be drawn up on the basis of the specimen of import licence set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000.

Articles 8(5), 13, 15, 17, 18, 21, 23, 26, 27, 29 to 33 and 36 to 41 of Regulation (EC) No 1291/2000 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, without prejudice to this Regulation.

3.   The entry ‘aid certificate’ shall be printed or stamped in box 20 (special particulars) of the certificate.

4.   Boxes 7 and 8 of the certificate shall be struck out.

5.   Box 12 of aid certificates shall show the last day of validity.

6.   The amount of the aid applicable shall be that in force on the day on which the application for the aid certificate was lodged.

7.   The competent authority shall issue aid certificates at the request of the parties concerned, subject to the limits of the forecast supply balances.

1.   For the purposes of applying this Title:

2.   The competent authorities shall take all appropriate steps to check that the advantage is actually passed on to the end-user. In doing so they may assess the trading margins and prices applied by the various operators concerned.

The measures referred to in the first subparagraph, and in particular the control points used to determine whether the aid has been passed on, and any amendments made, shall be notified to the Commission in the context of the report provided for in Article 33.

1.   Aid certificates shall be issued only to operators entered in a register kept by the competent authorities (hereinafter referred to as ‘the register’).

2.   Any operator established in the Community may apply to be entered in the register.

Entry in the register shall be subject to the following conditions:

3.   Operators intending to dispatch to the rest of the Community or export to third countries processed or unprocessed products under the conditions referred to in Article 13 shall, at the time of applying for entry in the register or later, declare their intention to engage in this activity and indicate the location of the packaging plant where applicable.

4.   Processors intending to export to third countries or dispatch to the Community processed products under the conditions referred to in Article 13 or 14 shall, at the time of applying for entry in the register or later, declare their intention to engage in this activity, indicate the location of the processing plant and, where applicable, provide analytical lists of the processed products.

1.   The competent authorities shall accept the aid-certificate application presented by operators for each consignment, provided that they are accompanied by the original or a certified copy of the purchase invoice.

The purchase invoice, bill of lading or airway bill must be drawn up in the name of the applicant.

2.   The period of validity of certificates shall be 45 days. The validity period may be extended by the competent authority in special cases where serious and unforeseeable difficulties affect the transportation time, but may not exceed two months from the date on which the certificate was issued.

1.   For products covered by the specific supply arrangements aid certificates shall be presented to the designated authorities within no more than 15 working days from the date of unloading the goods. The competent authorities may reduce this maximum time.

2.   The goods shall be presented in bulk or in separate lots corresponding to the certificate presented.

3.   Aid certificates shall not be transferable.

1.   If the state of execution of a forecast supply balance indicates a significant increase in applications for aid certificates for a given product which might jeopardise achievement of one or more of the objectives of the specific supply arrangements, Greece shall take all necessary steps to ensure that the smaller islands are supplied with essential products, taking account of available supply and the requirements of the priority sectors.

2.   In the event of restrictions on the issue of certificates, the competent authorities shall apply to all pending applications a uniform reduction percentage.

1.   The export and dispatch of unprocessed products which have benefited from the specific supply arrangements, or packaged or processed products containing products which have benefited from the specific supply arrangements, shall be subject to the requirements laid down in paragraphs 2 to 3.

2.   Quantities of products which have benefited from aid and are exported or dispatched shall be reattributed to the forecast supply balance and the aid granted shall be reimbursed by the exporter or consignor by the time of export or dispatch at the latest.

Those products may not be dispatched or exported until the reimbursement referred to in the first subparagraph has been made.

Where it is impossible to establish the amount of aid granted, the products shall be considered to have received the highest rate of aid fixed by the Community for such products during the six-month period preceding the submission of the application for export or dispatch.

Such products may benefit from an export refund, provided that the criteria for granting such a refund are met.

3.   The competent authorities shall authorise the export or dispatch of quantities of processed products other than those referred to in paragraph 2 and in Article 14 only where the processor or exporter certifies that the products concerned do not contain raw materials introduced under the specific supply arrangements.

The competent authorities shall authorise the re-export or re-dispatch of unprocessed products or packaged products other than those referred to in paragraph 2 only where the consignor certifies that those products have not benefited from specific supply arrangements.

The competent authorities shall carry out the necessary checks to ensure the accuracy of the certificates referred to in the first and second subparagraphs and shall, if necessary, recover the advantage.

1.   Processors who have declared, in accordance with Article 6(4), that they intend to export in the context of traditional trade flows or to dispatch in the context of traditional trade flows, as referred to in Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1405/2006, processed products containing raw materials which have benefited from specific supply arrangements may do so within the limits of the annual quantities indicated in the approved programme and presented in accordance with the specimen set out in the Annex to this Regulation. The competent authorities shall deliver the requisite authorisations in such a way as to ensure that transactions do not exceed those annual quantities.

2.   The export of products referred to in this Article shall not be subject to the presentation of an export licence.

1.   The administrative checks carried out on the, entry, export and dispatch of agricultural products shall be exhaustive and shall involve cross-checks with the documents referred to in Article 7(1).

2.   The physical checks carried out in the smaller islands on the, entry, export and dispatch of agricultural products shall involve a representative sample amounting to at least 5 % of the certificates presented in accordance with Article 8.

Physical checks shall be carried out, mutatis mutandis, in accordance with the procedures laid down in Council Regulation (EEC) No 386/90 (11).

In special cases the Commission may request that physical checks cover different percentages.

1.   Except in cases of force majeure or climatic aberrations, if an operator fails to comply with the requirements of Article 6, and without prejudice to any penalties applicable under national law, the competent authorities shall:

The advantage referred to in point (a) shall be equal to the amount of the aid determined in accordance with Article 13(2).

2.   Except in cases of force majeure or climatic aberrations, where holders of a certificate do not carry out the planned entry, their entitlement to apply for certificates shall be suspended for a period of 60 days following expiry of that certificate. After the suspension period, the issue of subsequent certificates shall be subject to the lodging of a security equal to the amount of the advantage to be granted during a period to be determined by the competent authorities.

3.   The competent authorities shall adopt the measures required to reutilise any quantities of products made available as a result of non-execution, partial execution or cancellation of the certificates issued or recovery of the advantage.

1.   The amount of aid granted under the measures to assist local agricultural production as provided for in Chapter III of Regulation (EC) No 1405/2006 shall be within the ceilings fixed in Article 12 of that Regulation.

2.   The conditions for granting aid, the lines of agricultural production and the amounts concerned shall be specified in the programme approved in accordance with Article 13(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1405/2006.

1.   An aid application may be totally or partially withdrawn at any time.

However, where the competent authority has already informed the beneficiary of irregularities in the aid application or has given notice to the beneficiary of its intention to carry out an on-the-spot check and this check reveals irregularities, withdrawal shall not be authorised in respect of the parts of the aid application affected by those irregularities.

2.   Withdrawal under paragraph 1 shall return the claimant to the situation prior to submitting the aid application or part of the aid application in question.

3.   No later than 31 March of each year an analysis of aid applications withdrawn for the previous calendar year should be carried out to identify the main causes and potential trends at local level.

1.   On-the-spot checks shall be unannounced. However, provided that the purpose of the check is not compromised, advance notice limited to the strict minimum necessary may be given. Such notice shall not exceed 48 hours, except in duly justified cases.

2.   Where applicable, the on-the-spot checks provided for in this Chapter shall be carried out in conjunction with any other checks provided for by Community legislation.

3.   The aid application or applications concerned shall be rejected if beneficiaries or their representatives prevent an on-the-spot check from being carried out.

1.   Beneficiaries shall be selected to undergo on-the-spot checks by the competent authority on the basis of a risk analysis and the representativeness of the aid applications submitted. The risk analysis shall, as appropriate, take account of:

To provide the element of representativeness, Greece shall randomly select between 20 % and 25 % of the minimum number of beneficiaries to be subjected to on-the-spot checks.

2.   The competent authority shall keep records of the reasons why specific beneficiaries were selected for on-the-spot checks. The inspector performing the on-the-spot check shall be informed of those reasons before beginning the check.

1.   Every on-the-spot check shall be the subject of an inspection report relating the details of the checks carried out. Reports shall indicate in particular:

2.   Beneficiaries or their representatives shall be given the opportunity to sign the report to attest their presence at the check and to add observations. Where irregularities are found the beneficiary shall receive a copy of the inspection report.

Where the on-the-spot check is carried out by remote-sensing, Greece may decide not to give the beneficiaries or their representatives the opportunity to sign the inspection report if no irregularities are revealed during the check by remote-sensing.

1.   The reductions and exclusions provided for in Article 28 shall not apply where the beneficiary submitted factually correct information or can otherwise show that he or she is not at fault.

2.   The reductions and exclusions shall not apply with regard to those parts of the aid application which the beneficiary informs the competent authority in writing are incorrect or have become incorrect since it was lodged, provided that the competent authority has not already informed the beneficiary of its intention to carry out an on-the-spot check or of any irregularity in the application.

On the basis of the information given by the beneficiary as referred to in the first subparagraph, the aid application shall be rectified to reflect the actual situation.

1.   In the event of undue payment, Article 73 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 796/2004 (13) shall apply mutatis mutandis.

2.   Where the undue payment has been made as a result of a false declaration, false documents or serious negligence on the part of the beneficiary, a penalty shall be imposed equal to the amount unduly paid, with interest calculated in accordance with Article 73(3) of Regulation (EC) No 796/2004.