No L 212/10 Official Journal of the European Communities 9. 8. 85 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2274/85 of 29 July 1985 laying down detailed rules implementing the system of aid for the use of concentrated grape must for the manufacture in the United Kingdom and Ireland of certain products and fixing the amounts of aid for the 1985/86 ~ wine-growing year THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 337/79 of 5 February 1979 on the common organization of the market in wine (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 798/85 (%), and in particular Articles 14a (4) and 65 thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1223/83 of 20 May 1983 on the exchange rates to be applied in agriculture (°), as last amended by Regula- tion (EEC) No 1297/85 (%), and in particular Article 4 (3) thereof, Whereas, under the second and third indents of the first subparagraph of Article 14a (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 337/79, an aid system was introduced for the use of grape musts and concentrated grape musts produced in wine-growing zones C III a) and C III b) for the preparation in the United Kingdom and Ireland of certain products, falling within heading No 22.07 of the Common Customs Tariff and for the use of concentrated grape musts produced in the Commu- nity for the manufacture of certain products marketed in the United Kingdom and in Ireland with instruc- tions for obtaining from them a beverage in imitation of wine; Whereas the products falling within heading No 22.07 of the Common Customs Tariff referred to in the second indent of the first subparagraph of Article 14a (1) of the abovementioned Regulation are at the moment produced exclusively from concentrated grape must ; whereas, at present, aid should therefore be fixed for the use of concentrated grape must alone ; Whereas implementation of the aid system requires administrative arrangements for checking both the origin of the products for which aid is given and the use to which they are put; Whereas, to ensure that the aid system and the checking arrangements operate properly, operators o L 54, 5.3.1979, p. 1. o L 89, 29. 3. 1985, p. 1. o L 132, 21. 5. 1983, p. 33. o L 137, 27. 5. 1985, p. 1. must be required to submit written applications giving the information necessary to identify the product and enable the operations to be checked ; Whereas, so that the aid system can have an appre- ciable effect on the quantity of Community products used, a minimum quantity for which applications may be submitted should be fixed ; Whereas it should also be stated that aid will be granted only for products having the minimum quality characteristics required for use for the purposes indi- cated in the second and third indents of the first subparagraph of Article 14a (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 337/79; Whereas Article 14a (3) of that Regulation sets criteria for fixing the aid amounts; whereas application of these criteria gives the aid amounts fixed below ; Whereas, to enable the competent authorities of the Member States to make the necessary checks, obliga- tions on operators in regard to the keeping of stock records should be laid down in addition to the provi- sions of Title II of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1153/75 (), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3203/80 (%) ; Whereas it should be laid down that entitlement to aid is established at the moment when the processing operations are completed ; whereas to allow for tech- nical losses the quantity actually used should be allowed to be up to 10 % less than that shown in the application ; Whereas for technical reasons operators lay in their stocks a long time before manufacturing the marketed products ; whereas accordingly arrangements should be made to enable advance payment of the aid to be made to operators, the competent authorities being guaranteed by appropriate security against the risk of incorrect payment ; whereas the period within which advance payment is to be made and the procedure for release of the security should be specified ; () OJ No L 113, 1. 5. 1975, p. 1. (9 OJ No L 333, 11. 12. 1980, p. 18.