19. 12. 95 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 305/17 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2912/95 of 15 December 1995 laying down certain detailed rules for the application of the premium schemes provided for in Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 on the common organization of the market in beef and veal as regards the specific measures applicable in the French overseas departments, the Azores and Madeira, and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 231/93 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3763/91 of 16 December 1991 introducing specific measures in respect of certain agricultural products for the benefit of the French overseas departments ('), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2598/95 (3), and in particular Article 9 thereof, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1600/92 of 15 June 1992 concerning specific measures for the Azores and Madeira relating to certain agricultural products ), as amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2537/95 (%), and in particular Articles 14 (4) and 24 (6) thereof, Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 1600/92 provides for specific measures to promote livestock farming in the archipelagoes of the Azores and Madeira ; whereas these measures include, in the beef and veal sector, a supple- ment to the special premium for male bovine animals and to the premium for maintaining suckler cows as provided for in Articles 4b and 4d respectively of Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 (%), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EC) No 2417/95(f); whereas provision should be made for these supplements to be granted under the rules applicable to those premium schemes ; Whereas the measures to promote beef and veal produc- tion in the Azores seek to bolster traditional economic activities vital to the Azores archipelago; whereas one such traditional activity in' the beef and veal sector consists of the production of animals for fattening in other regions of the Community; whereas provision should therefore be made in order that the supplement to the special premium may also be paid to the Azores lives- tock producer prior to shipment of the animals; OJ No L 356, 24. 12. 1991, p. 1. OJ No L 267, 9. 11. 1995, p. 1. 0J No L 173, 27. 6. 1992, p. 1. () OJ No L 260, 31. 10. 1995, p. 10. () OJ No L 148, 28. 6. 1968, p. 24. () OJ No L 248, 14. 10. 1995, p. 39. Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 3763/91 provides for specific measures to promote livestock farming in the French overseas departments; whereas these measures include, in the beef and veal sector, derogations from the premium schemes provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 805/68, and a supplement to the special premium for male bovine animals and to the premium for maintaining suckler cows ; whereas provisions should be made there- fore for the basic premium and the supplement to be granted in the French overseas departments under the rules applicable to those premium schemes, and, where necessary, for the derogations provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 3763/91; Whereas Article 5 (4) of Regulation (EEC) No 3763/91 provides for the freezing, within the French regional limit, of the number of animals in respect of which the special premium has been granted in the overseas depart- ments ; whereas it is appropriate to take as the reference year 1994 which is the year in which producers still quali- fied for the French common ceiling and which precedes the establishment of the special quantity of 10 000 male bovine animals allocated to the overseas departments ; Whereas, in order to meet the requirements of the deve- lopment of livestock farming in the French overseas departments, a specific reserve of rights to the suckler cow premium applicable in those territories should be establi- shed ; whereas, in view of the specific nature of the terri- tories, the task of laying down the conditions for alloca- ting or reallocating rights under that reserve should be entrusted to the competent authorities, which must first notify them to the Commission ; whereas, however, the legitimate interests of producers to whom individual rights to the premium have already been granted pursuant to Article 4d of Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 must be preserved ; Whereas a large proportion of the applications for premiums in the overseas departments had already been submitted on the date of application of this Regulation ; whereas the annual nature of the administration of the premium schemes means that different arrangements cannot be adopted which would apply only at the end of the year ; whereas consequently the derogations provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 3763/91, in particular the non-application of the stocking density requirements requirements in the territory, should be extended to all eligible applications submitted for 1995,