L157/8 Official Journal of the European Communities 14.6.2001 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1157/2001 of 13 June 2001 amending Regulation (EC) No 2316/1999 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1251/1999 establishing a support system for producers of certain arable crops and derogating from Regulation (EEC) No 3887/92 laying down detailed rules for applying the integrated administration and control system for certain Community aid schemes THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, fied in accordance with Council Directive 66/401/EEC of 14 June 1966 on the marketing of fodder plant seeds (’), as last amended by Directive 98/96/EC (%), should not be Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European eligible for area payments. Community, (4)  Regulation (EC) No 1038/2001 allows organic produ- cers to use legume crops grown on areas set aside. Those crops and the conditions governing the granting of the aid should be stipulated. Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1251/1999 of 17 May 1999 establishing a support system for producers of certain arable crops (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1038/2001 (3, and in particular Article 9 thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3508/92 of 27 (5)  If all producers are to be able to take advantage of the November 1992 establishing an integrated administration and possibility provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1038/ control system for certain Community aid schemes (%), as last 2001, a new time limit must be allowed for amending amended by Regulation (EC) No 495/2001 (*), and in particular applications for area payments as provided for in Article Article 12 thereof, 4 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3887/92 (%), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2721/2000 (*9). Whereas: (6)  Council Regulation (EC) No 823/2001 of 24 April 2001 . . amending Regulation (EEC) No 738/93 amending the (1) Commission Regulation (EC) No 2316/1999 (), as last transitional measures governing the common organ- 3?\;2dil(ietali)l)e,d Rreugliatfigrrl tlicztpﬁfcatf osr?/ f)?ORle(gél)l,lagiagri isation of the market in cereals and rice in Portugal.as (EC) No 12511999 as regards the conditions for prov1c}ed f(;lr bgofz)elg/lé)lgtlon (II;ZEC) o 365}31/90 " nfqal}rll_ . . tains for the marketing year the rate of the grantilg areellpgyments on certain arilble crops and sets special aid applying for 2000/01. For the sake of consis- out the conditions governing set-aside. tency, the supplement to the aid for compulsory set- aside in Portugal fixed in Regulation (EC) No 2316/1999 should be adjusted. 2)  Article 3(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 2316/1999 stipu- lates that the areas concerned must be cultivated, until at least the beginning of flowering, under conditions of normal growth or until 30 June in the case of certain (7) A new variety of flax grown for fibre can be deemed crops, until after the stage of lactic ripeness in the case eligible for the aid. It should be added to the list of of protein plants and for at least 10 days after the end of varieties eligible under the aid scheme set out in Annex flowering in the case of hemp. XII to Regulation (EC) No 2316/1999. Experience has shown that in certain cases, as a result of exceptional weather conditions, arable crops normally (8)  To allow this new variety to be used in the 2001/02 cultivated do not reach those time limits. In order to marketing year, it should be incorporated retroactively make farmers' incomes less dependent on weather with effect from 15 May 2001 in accordance with conditions, such areas should continue to be eligible Article 7a(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 2316/1999. under certain conditions. (3)  With a view to preventing aid from being paid in combi- (9 The measures provided for in this Regulation are in nation on silage grass under different measures, culti- accordgnce with the opinion of Fhe Management vated parcels registered for the production of seed certi- Committee for Cereals and the Committee for the Euro- pean Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, () O] L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 1. () O] L 145, 31.5.2001, p. 16. () OJ 125, 11.7.1966, p. 2298/66. () O] L 355, 5.12.1992, p. 1. () O L 25, 1.2.1999, p. () O] L 72, 14.3.2001, p. 6. () O] L 391, 31.12.1992, p 36. () O] L 280, 30.10.1999, p. 43. (1 O] L 314, 14.12.2000, p. 8. (9 O] L 82, 22.3.2001, p. 13. (1 o L 120, 28.4.2001, p. 2.