4.9.2008 Official Journal of the European Union L 237/5 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 867/2008 of 3 September 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 COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agri- cultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agri- cultural products (Single CMO Regulation) (1), and in particular the third subparagraph of Article 103(2) in conjunction with Article 4 thereof, Whereas: (1) In accordance with Article 201(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007, Council Regulation (EC) No 865/2004 of 29 April 2004 on the common organisation of the market in olive oil and table olives and amending Regu- lation (EEC) No 827/68 (%) shall be repealed as from 1 July 2008. Given the numerous references to specific dispositions of Regulation (EC) No 865/2004 in Commission Regulation (EC) No 2080/2005 (*), which lays down detailed rules for the application of Regulation (EC) No 865/2004, and in the interest of clarity and rationalisation, Regulation (EC) No 2080/2005 should be repealed and replaced by a new Regulation specifying the new legal basis and containing reference to the correct basic dispositions. The new Regulation should also include certain amendments that are deemed necessary after the experience gained in two years of implementation of work programmes. To ensure that approved operators’ organisations are effective, approval should relate to the various categories of operators having a major impact in the olive oil or table olives sectors, while ensuring that those organi- sations can guarantee compliance with  certain minimum conditions that are sufficient to obtain economically significant results. To allow producer Member States to implement admin- istrative management of the system of approved operators’ organisations in the olive sector, the procedures and time limits for the approval of such organisations, the criteria for selecting their work programmes, the arrangements for paying Community financing and the allocation thereof should be laid down. () OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1. (® OJ L 161, 30.4.2004, p. 97. Corrected by O] L 206, 9.6.2004, p. 37. () O] L 333, 20.12.2005, p. 8. S Under Article 110i(4) of Council Regulation (EC) No 17822003 (%), which establishes common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and certain support schemes for farmers, Member States may withhold up to 10% of the olive oil component in the national ceiling referred to in Article 41 thereof to provide Community financing for the work programmes drawn up by approved operators’ organisations in one or more of the areas referred to in Article 103(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007. In accordance with the common rules on financing direct support schemes, and to allow the use of the amounts available by Member State, the annual expenditure intended for the implementation of the work programmes should not exceed the annual amounts withheld by the Member States in accordance with Article 110i(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003. To ensure overall consistency between the activities of approved operators’ organisations, the types of measures that are eligible for Community financing and those that are ineligible should be laid down. The arrangements for the submission of the programmes and the selection criteria for those programmes should also be laid down. Given the enhanced efficiency of modern technology, it would be opportune to consider as eligible, the storage or processing improvements which may also result in an indirect increase of capacity. The Member States concerned should, however, be allowed to lay down additional eligibility conditions so as to gear measures more closely to the national situation in the olive sector. In the light of experience, the Community financing thresholds should be fixed at the very least for the areas of improving the environmental impact of olive cultivation and traceability, certification and protection, under the authority of the national administrations, of the quality of olive oil and table olives by means of quality control on the olive oils sold to the final consumer so as to ensure implementation of at least a certain number of measures in sensitive priority areas. To take into consideration the experience gained, the relevant threshold for the area of improving the environ- mental impact of olive cultivation should be adapted in order to reflect the evolution in this area. In view of the work programmes concerned and in order to facilitate their implementation, it is appropriate to provide for an increased percentage of overheads. (% O] L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 1.