7. 4. 95 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 79/5 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 785/95 of 6 April 1995 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 603/95 on the common organization of the market in dried fodder THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 603/95 of 21 February 1995 on the common organization of the market in dried fodder ('), and in particular Article 18 thereof, Whereas, in order to ensure efficient application of the system of aid for dried fodder, certain concepts should be defined ; Whereas, in order to avoid any risk of double payment, it is appropriate to exclude all of the products benefitting from the aid of arable crops listed in Annex I of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92 (%), as last amended by the Act of Accession of Austria, Finland and Sweden, with the exception of sweet lupins until the flowering stage, from the scope of the aid for dried fodder; Whereas, having regard to the criteria laid down in Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 603/95, the minimum quality for the products in question, expressed in terms of moisture and protein content, should be laid down; whereas, taking account of commercial practices, the moisture content should be differentiated according to certain production processes ; Whereas Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 603/95 lays down that Member States must carry out checks to verify that all undertakings and buyers of fodder for drying satisfy the conditions set out in that Regulation ; whereas, in order to facilitate such checks and to ensure fulfilment of the conditions of eligibility for aid, processing under- takings and buyers of fodder for drying should be subject to an approval procedure ; whereas, to the same end, the details to be included in aid applications, stock records and delivery declarations of processing undertakings should be specified ; whereas the other supporting docu- ments to be supplied should be specified ; Whereas, in order to ensure uniform application of the system of aid, the payment procedures should be defined ; () OJ No L 63, 21. 3. 1995, p. 1. () OJ No L 181, 1. 7. 1992, p. 12. Whereas, in order to facilitate the marketing of fodder for processing and to enable the competent authorities to carry out the checks necessary for verifying entitlement to aid, contracts between processing undertakings and farmers should be concluded before delivery of the raw materials and lodged with the competent authorities before a certain date to enable them to know the expected volume of production; whereas, to that end, contracts must be in writing, indicate the date of conclusion, the period of validity, the names and addresses of the con- tracting parties and the nature of the products to be processed and identify the agricultural parcel on which the fodder to be processed was grown; Whereas, where there are no such contracts, delivery declarations, subject to the conditions applicable to contracts, must be drawn up by the processing under- taking ; Whereas, in order to verify that the quantities of raw materials delivered to undertakings tally with the quanti- ties of dried fodder leaving them, the said undertakings should weigh all fodder for processing and determine its moisture content ; Whereas, in order to permit effective verification of the right to aid, in view of the different levels of aid provided for artificially dried fodder and sun-dried fodder, it is essential that processing undertakings manufacture and stock the different products in separate premises ; Whereas rigorous checks must be carried out to ensure fulfilment of the quality requirements for dried fodder based on regular sampling of finished products leaving undertakings ; whereas, where those products are mixed with other materials, samples must be taken before mixing ; Whereas Regulation (EC) No 603/95 provides for a series of checks to be carried out at each stage of the production process, inter alia linked to the integrated verification and management system ; whereas, therefore, checks on the identification of the agricultural parcels concerned should be coordinated with the checks carried out under that system ; Whereas, in order to ensure efficient management of the market for dried fodder, the Commission must receive certain information on a regular basis;