L35/18 Official Journal of the European Communities 6.2.2001 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 245/2001 of 5 February 2001 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1673/2000 on the common organisation of the markets in flax and hemp grown for fibre THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 16732000 of 27 July 2000 on the common organisation of the markets in flax and hemp grown for fibre ('), and in particular Article 9 thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2799/98 of 15 December 1998 establishing agrimonetary arrangements for the euro (3), and in particular Article 3 thereof, Whereas: 1) () ) 0] 0] Regulation (EC) No 1673/2000 provides inter alia for measures relating to the internal market in flax and hemp grown for fibre, comprising aid to authorised primary processors of flax and hemp straw and to farmers who have straw processed on their own account, the detailed implementing rules for which must be laid down. The conditions governing authorisation of primary processors and the obligations to be met by farmers who have straw processed on their own account must be laid down. The information that must be shown in sale/purchase contracts, processing commitments and processing contracts covering straw as referred to in Article 2(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1673/2000 must also be specified. Some primary processors of flax straw mainly produce long flax fibre, together, as a sideline, with short flax fibre containing a high percentage of impurities and shives. Where they do not have suitable facilities for cleaning such secondary products, they may have the short fibre cleaned under contract by another operator. In such circumstances, the cleaning of fibre under contract should be regarded as an operation carried out by the primary processor authorised in respect of short flax fibre. The conditions to be met by the operators concerned, in particular with a view to controls, should accordingly be laid down. To ensure the eligibility of these products for aid, areas under flax or hemp grown for fibre from which processed straw comes must be able to be identified using the system for identifying agricultural parcels provided for in Council Regulation (EEC) No 3508/92 of L 193, 29.7.2000, p. 16. L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 1. 27 November 1992 establishing an integrated adminis- tration and control system for certain Community aid schemes (*), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1593/2000 (%). To that end, a link must be established between straw eligible for processing aid and the areas for which ‘area’ aid applications as provided for in Article 4 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3887/92- of 23 December 1992 laying down detailed rules for applying the integrated administration and control system for certain Community aid schemes (°), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2721/2000 (%), have been submitted in respect of the marketing year concerned. With a view to ensuring sound administrative manage- ment while adapting to the special conditions applying on the markets for flax and hemp, the period during which flax and hemp straw grown for fibre can be processed and, where applicable, marketed should be determined. Where Member States decide to grant aid on short flax fibre or hemp fibre containing more than 7,5 % impuri- ties and shives, a method of calculation allowing the quantity produced to be expressed in terms of an equivalent quantity with a 7,5 % impurities and shives content should be laid down. With a view to helping to ensure that the stabiliser mechanism functions properly, provision should be made to limit the quantities of fibre on which processing aid can be granted in respect of a marketing year to the quantity arrived at by multiplying the number of hectares covered by contracts or processing commit- ments by a unit quantity per hectare. That unit quantity is to be determined by the Member State on the basis of the national guaranteed quantities established and of the hectares cultivated. Given the variations in the national guaranteed quant- ities that may result from the flexibility introduced by Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 16732000, detailed rules should be laid down for establishing such national guaranteed quantities for each marketing year, taking account of any adjustments that may prove necessary with a view to apportioning the national guaranteed quantities suitably among the beneficiaries of the processing aid. 355, 5.12.1992, p. 1. 182, 21.7.2000, p. 4. () O] L () O] L () O] L 391, 31.12.1992, p. 36. () O] L 314, 14.12.2000, p. 8.