L 10/10 Official Journal of the European Communities 12.1.2002 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 52/2002 of 11 January 2002 amending Regulation (EC) No 245/2001 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, Whereas: (1) The second indent of Article 3(2) of Commission Regu- lation (EC) No 245/2001 of 5 February 2001 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regu- lation (EC) No 1673/2000 on the common organisation of the markets in flax and hemp grown for fibre (), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 10932001 (}), provides that primary processors must undertake to keep daily records of stocks for the operations that they carry out. To make stock account management less cumbersome, primary processors should also be allowed the poss- ibility of recording operations by lot. To that end, the term ‘ot should be defined. (2)  To prevent distortions of competition, the scope for authorised primary processors to use more than one cleaner of short flax fibre should be extended. However, given the need to maintain an adequate level of control, that scope should be limited to a maximum of two cleaners of short flax fibre per authorised primary processor and marketing year. (3)  Article 10 of Regulation (EC) No 245/2001 provides that each application for an advance is subject to the lodging of a security, which may mean in some cases that five different securities are lodged in the processing period relating to the same marketing year. This system should therefore be simplified by providing for a security, calculated on the basis of the theoretical amount of aid to which each primary processor is enti- tled, to be lodged with the first application for an advance and to continue to be valid for the entire processing period in question. However, to take account of circumstances in which the calculation of the theoret- ical amount of aid entitlement might prove far removed OJ L 193, 29.7.2000, p. 16. Y O] L 35, 6.2.2001, p. 18. OJ L 150, 6.6.2001, p. 17. from real production estimates, provision should be made for the Member States to establish the amount of the security in a more flexible manner, while retaining an equivalent level of security. (4)  Article 17a of Regulation (EC) No 245/2001 lays down provisions on imports of hemp. In the first indent of the second subparagraph of paragraph 2 of that Article, the definition of the operations that hemp seed other than seed intended for sowing may undergo could lead to doubts as to its interpretation. That definition should therefore be made more specific. (5)  The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Flax and Hemp, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Regulation (EC) No 245/2001 is amended as follows: 1. Article 3 is amended as follows: (a) the second indent of paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: ‘— keep daily records of stocks or records by lot, linked regularly to financial accounts, and of the informa- tion specified in paragraph 5, together with supporting documents as specified by the Member State for the purpose of controls,’; (b) in the third subparagraph of paragraph 4, ‘Only one cleaner of short flax fibre’ is replaced by ‘A maximum of two cleaners of short flax fibre’; (c) in the first subparagraph of paragraph 5, ‘or lot’ is inserted after by day’; (d) the following paragraph 6 is added: ‘6. A lot shall be a determined quantity of flax or hemp straw numbered on entry into the processing plants or storage facilities referred to in paragraph 1. A lot may relate to only one sale/purchase contract covering straw, processing commitment or processing contract as referred to in Article 5.