No L 288/52 Official Journal of the European Communities 1. 11. 84 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 3061/84 of 31 October 1984 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 No 136/66/EEC of 22 September 1966 on the establishment of a common organization of the market in oils and fats (), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2260/84 (%), and in particular Article 5 (5) thereof, Whereas Article 14 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2261/84 (°) requires each producer Member State to introduce a system of checks to ensure that the product in respect of which aid is requested is eligible for such aid ; whereas, therefore, the crop declarations and aid applications to be submitted by the parties concerned must include the particulars necessary for the performance of such checks ; whereas, to the same end, certain obligations should be placed on olive growers and on producer organizations and associa- tions thereof ; Whereas the checks referred to in Article 6 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 2261/84 must cover a suffici- ently representative number of the crop declarations made by olive growers who are members of producer organizations ; Whereas the aid to be granted to olive growers who are not members of a producer organization and to olive growers whose average production is less than 100 kilograms of oil must be calculated on the basis of standard oil yields and oil yields from the olive trees concerned ; whereas recourse to standard yields is also necessary to determine the aid payable to olive growers who are members of an organization if the olives which they have produced are sold to a customer other than an approved mill ; whereas, therefore, it is neces- sary that the yields to be taken into consideration should be fixed for production zones with specific characteristics ; : Whereas, to facilitate the fixing of yields, persons designated by the Commission should be involved in the preparatory work ; Whereas, to ensure that the system of aid functions properly, the minimum particulars which must be included in the stock accounts of each approved mill () OJ No 172, 30. 9. 1966, p. 3025/66. () OJ No L 208, 3. 8. 1984, p. 1. () OJ No L 208, 3. 8. 1984, p. 3. and the conditions for the approval of mills should be laid down ; : Whereas the checks referred to in Article 14 (3) and (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 2261/84 must cover a percen- tage which provides sufficient guarantees for the proper functioning of ‘the aid system, account being taken of the scope for checks in the Member States concerned ; Whereas, under Article 10 of Regulation (EEC) No 2261/84, associations of producer organizations must verify, by a sampling procedure, the checks carried out by each producer organization ; whereas such verifica- tion must cover a sufficiently representative number of olive growers, account being taken of the guarantees provided by the organization as regards checks; Whereas Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 2261/84 lays down general rules on the financing of expendi- ture by producer organizations and associations thereof on activities for which they are responsible under the legislation on production aid ; whereas, consequently, detailed rules should be laid down for such financing, account being taken of ‘the foreseeable expenses of such organizations; whereas, however, given the special features of production structures in certain Member States, provision should be made for special arrangements in cases where the sums allocated for such financing are insufficient ; Whereas, to ensure a harmonious changeover from the system currently in force to that introduced by Regula- tion (EEC) No 2261/84, certain transitional rules should be laid down for the first year of implementa- tion ; ' Whereas the Management Committee for Oils and Fats has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its chairman, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 1. Subject to the provisions of the second indent of paragraph 3, the crop declarations .referred to in Article 3 (1) and (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2261/84 shall be lodged- not later than 30 November of each marketing year.