No L 299/26 Official Journal of the European Communities 4.12. 93 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 3338/93 of 3 December 1993 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulations (EC) No 3119/93 and (EEC) No 1035/77 as regards measures to encourage the processing of certain citrus fruits and the marketing of products processed from lemons THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNI"I‘IES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 3119/93 of 8 November 1993 laying down special measures to encourage the processing of certain citrus fruits (*), and in particular Article 10 thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1035/77 of 17 May 1977 laying down special measures to en- courage the marketing of products processed from lemons (), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1199/90 (°), and in particular Article 3 thereof, Whereas the basic conditions for the application of the system of aid for producers’ organizations delivering satsumas and of financial compensation for processors of various citrus fruits should be established by stages; Whereas eligibility under the system provided for must be conditional on submission of an application together with all the particulars necessary to ensure the’ correct opera- tion of the system; ' Whereas the system of financial compensation or aid for citrus fruit producers’ organizations is to be based on contracts between producers or producers’ groups and processors ; whereas the particulars to be included in the contracts should be specified ; Whereas, in order to ensure supplies to undertakings processing mandarins, clementines and $atsumas, proces- sing contracts must be concluded before a given date; whereas, taking account of the duration of the marketing year for oranges and lemons, provision should be made for two or four processing contracts respectively to be - concluded before given dates; whereas, however, to ensure maximum efficiency of the system, the contracting parties should be allowed, in certain cases and subject to certain limits, to increase, by way of one or more supple- mentary agreements, the quantities of fruit originally contracted for; Whereas, because the finished product depends closely on the fruit supplied to the processor, such fruit should meet certain minimum quality criteria ; Whereas applications for financial compensation or for aid must include all the particulars needed to establish that they are fully justified ; () OJ No L 279, 12. 11. 1993, p. 17. () OJ No L 125, 19. 5. 1977, p. 3. () OJ No L 119, 11. 5. 1990, p. 61. Whereas, to ensure that the financial compensation or aid system is correctly applied, processors and citrus fruit producers’ organizations must keep up-to-date records ; whereas, to prevent irregularities in the operation of the system, processors and citrus fruit producets’ organiza- tions must be subjected to such inspection and moni- toring as is considered necessary and to financial penalties in cases of failure to comply with the rules, in particular in the case of false statements; Whereas individual producers may obtain part of the aid for 1993/94 only ; whereas provision should therefore be made for a derogation in their case for that marketing year ; Whereas, in view of the extent and significance of the amendments made to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1562/85 (), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1203/93 (%), it should be replaced, for reasons of clarity, by -this Regulation ; Whereas the marketing year for citrus begins on 1 October ; whereas it is necessary, therefore, to set the same date for the application of this Regulation as for Regulation (EEC) No 3119/93; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of thé Management Committee for Fruit and Vegetables, i HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : TITLE I ' Field of application Article 1 This Regulation lays down detailed rules for applying the system of aid for citrus fruit producers’ organizations and of financial compensation to encourage the processing of sweet oranges, mandarins, clementines, sastumas and lemons, as provided for in Regulations (EC) No 3119/93 and (EEC) No 1035/77 respectively. () OJ No L 152, 11. 6. 1985, p. S. () OJ No L 122, 18. 5. 1993, p. 32.