No L 312/64 Official Journal of the European Communities 31. 10. 81 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3137/81 of 30 October 1981 laying down detailed rules for the application of the system of production aid for olive oil THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation 136/66/EEC of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a common organization of the market in oils and fats (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3454/80 (2), and in particular Article 5 (5) thereof, Whereas, under Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 2990/81 (3), each producer Member State is to set up a system of administrative checks designed to guarantee that the product for which an aid application is submitted is eligible for aid; whereas, consequently the crop declarations and aid applications to be presented by applicants must include a minimum amount of information necessary for the carrying out of these checks; Whereas the checks referred to in Article 3 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 2990/81 must embrace a suffi- ciently representative number of crop declarations by olive growers who are members of organizations; whereas under Article § (2) the organizations can require any supporting documents necessary to esta- blish the amount of their member’s production; whereas the nature of such supporting documents should be defined in order to facilitate uniform appli- cation of this system ; Whereas the aid to be granted to growers who are not members of a producer organization must be calcu- lated from the standard olive and oil yields of olive trees ; whereas the use of standard yields is also neces- sary for determination of the aid to be given to growers who are members of an organization in cases where they sell their olives to a purchaser other than an approved mill owner; Whereas, in the interests of good administration provi- sion should be made for informing the Member States at the end of each marketing year of the number of olive growers whose production is still to be verified by the producer organizations ; (1) OJ No 172, 30. 9. 1966, p. 3025/66. () OJ No L 360, 31. 12. 1980, p. 16. () OJ No L 299, 20. 10. 1981, p. 17. Whereas Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 2990/81 requires producer organizations to check the stock records and activity of the approved mills indicated to them by the Member States ; whereas, in order for the checks to be properly carried out, it should be laid down that the organizations must have access to the mills and to their stock records ; Whereas, in order to ensure that approved mills col- laborate more closely with the running of the aid system, provision should be made for participation by their professional associations in the checks carried out by producer organizations on the mills’ premises ; Whereas, in order to ensure that the aid system runs smoothly, the checks referred to in Article 7 of Regula- tion (EEC) No 2990/81 and to be carried out in the approved mills by the producer organizations should be defined; Whereas to ensure that the aid system functions prop- erly the minimum information to be given in the stock records of each approved mill and the checks to be made with regard to these records by the Member State concerned should be specified ; Whereas rules for determining the amount of aid to be granted to members of producer organizations who have had their olives pressed in an approved mill which has not complied with the obligations on stock records should be determined ; Whereas the checks specified in Article 8 (3) of Regu- lation (EEC) No 2990/81 must cover a percentage which provides adequate guarantees that the system will run properly, due account being taken of control possibilities in the Member State concerned; Whereas it is specified in Article 8 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2990/81 that the producer Member States are to carry out, for each producer organization, random checks on the accuracy of the crop declara- tions and applications for aid of their members; whereas these checks must cover a sufficiently repre- sentative number of growers due account being taken of the control guarantees given by the organization;