No L 179/10 Official Journal of the European Communities 1. 7. 78 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1528/78 of 30 June 1978 laying down detailed rules for the application of the system of aid for dried fodder THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1117/78 of 22 May 1978 on the common organization of the market in dried fodder('), and in particular Article 6 (3) thereof, Whereas when the average world market price for fodder dehydrated by artificial heat-drying is being determined, offers and quotations which are not considered to be representative of the real market trend should be disregarded ; ' Whereas provision should be made for adjusting the offers and quotations used to offset any differences by comparison with the presentation, the quality, the conditions or place of delivery for which the world market price must be determined ; Whereas for the application of Articles 2 and 3 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1417/78 of 19 June 1978 on the aid system for dried fodder (?), provisions should be made for the necessary adjustments of the prices used ; Whereas a criterion should be established relating to the minimum frequency for fixing the supplementary aid ; whereas it appears sufficient for the aid to be set at least once a month ; Whereas the trend for the forward prices to be used to calculate the corrective amount referred to in Article 11 of Regulation (EEC) No 1417/78 should be deter- mined ; Whereas in the absence of offers of dehydrated fodder on the world market for the month during which the aid is to be applied, and for one or more of the following months, it is not possible to determine the trend of forward prices; whereas in consequence the pre-fixed aid should be fixed at zero for the month or months in question ; Whereas the period of validity of the supplementary aid certificates referred to in Article 10 of Regulation (1) OJ No L 142, 30. 5. 1978, p. 1. () OJ No L 171, 28. 6. 1978, p. 1. (EEC) No 1417/78 must be determined with due regard to the need to adapt the conditions of sale for fodder processed in the Community to those on the world market ; Whereas the said Article 10 makes the issue of the certificate subject to the lodging of a deposit which is forfeited if the fodder does not leave the undertaking during the period of wvalidity of the certificate; whereas, to that end, the amount of the deposit should be fixed; Whereas, having regard to the practice in the fodder trade, a certain tolerance should be allowed in respect of the quantity leaving the undertaking in comparison with that specified in the certificate ; Whereas to ensure uniform application of the aids system, the procedures for paying out the aids should be defined ; Whereas, having regard to the criteria laid down in Article 5 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1417/78, the minimum quality prescribed for such products, expressed in terms of moisture and protein content, should be that recorded on the Community market; whereas, taking commercial practices into account, the moisture content should be differentiated according to the drying process used ; Whereas Article 13 of Regulation (EEC) No 1417/78 provides that Member States shall set up a supervisory system in order to verify, for each undertaking, whether the conditions set out in that Regulation have been complied with and whether the quantity of fodder in respect of which the aid is requested corres- ponds to the quantity of fodder of the minimum quality which had left the undertaking; whereas, consequently, the accounts of processing undertak- ings, declarations of area and applications for aid must include the minimum details necessary for such verifi- cation ; whereas the other documentary evidence which may be required of processing undertakings for the purposes of such verification should also be indi- cated ;