24.12.77 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 333/11 (Acts whose publication is not obligatory) COMMISSION COMMISSION DIRECTIVE of 4 November 1977 laying down detailed rules for implementing certain provisions of Directive 76/308/EEC on mutual assistance for the recovery of claims resulting from operations forming part of the system of financing the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, and of agricultural levies and customs duties (77/794/EEC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the Euro- pean Economic Community, Having regard to Council Directive 76/308/EEC of 15 March 1976 on mutual assistance for the recovery of claims resulting from operations forming part of the system of financing the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, and of agricultural levies and customs duties (1), and in particular Article 22 (1) thereof, Whereas the abovementioned Directive introduced a system of mutual assistance between the competent authorities of Member States for the purpose of supplying the applicant authority with all the information which it needs, for notifying the addressee concerned of instruments and decisions which are applicable, for the taking of precautionary measures, and for the recovery by the requested authority of claims on behalf of the applicant authority; Whereas the detailed rules of operation of such mutual assistance must be laid down in each of these fields in order to render it fully effective; () OJ No L 73, 19. 3. 1976, p. 18. Whereas the measures provided for in this Directive are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee on Recovery, HAS ADOPTED THIS DIRECTIVE: Article 1 1. This Directive lays the detailed rules for im- plementing Articles 4 (2) and (4), 5 (2) and (3), 7 (1), (3) and (5), 9 and 12 (1) of Directive 76/308/EEC, hereinafter called ‘the basic Directive’. 2. This Directive also lays down the detailed rules on conversion, transfer of sums recovered and the fixing of a minimum amount for claims which may give rise to a request for assistance. TITLE 1 Request for information Article 2 1. The request for information referred to in Article 4 of the basic Directive shall be made out in"