L 145/12 Official Journal of the European Union 16.5.2014 COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) No 500/2014 of 11 March 2014 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council by amending Commission Regulation (EC) No 288/2009 as regards the granting of aid for accompa- nying measures in the framework of a School Fruit and Vegetables Scheme THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007 ('), and in particular point (c) of paragraph 1 and point (b) of paragraph 2 of Article 24 thereof, Whereas: (1)  Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 repealed and replaced Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 () as from 1 January 2014. (2)  Article 23(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 provides that the Union aid under the School Fruit and Vegeta- bles Scheme may cover also the accompanying measures necessary to make the scheme effective. It is therefore necessary to define those measures in terms of objectives and of costs associated with them and to determine which of those costs could be eligible for the Union aid. (3)  Commission Regulation (EC) No 288/2009 (°) provides rules for the application of the School Fruit and Vegeta- bles Scheme and in particular the obligation for the Member States to describe in their strategies the accompa- nying measures which they intend to adopt in order to ensure the successful implementation of the scheme. It also provides for rules on the costs eligible to the Union aid. It is therefore appropriate to amend Regu- lation (EC) No 2882009 in order to include the rules concerning the accompanying measures as referred to in Article 23(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013. (4)  Article 4(1) of Regulation (EC) No 288/2009 provides that Member States setting up a School Fruit and Vegeta- bles Scheme may apply for the Union aid for one or more periods running from 1 August to 31 July. To take into account the periodicity of the school year, the new rules concerning the accompanying measures should therefore become applicable as from 1 August 2014, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Amendment to Regulation (EC) No 288/2009 Regulation (EC) No 288/2009 is amended as follows: (1) in Article 3, paragraph 4 is replaced by the following: ‘4. Member States shall provide in their strategies the accompanying measures referred to in Article 23(1)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (*). The accompanying measures shall support the distribution of fruit and vegetable products and shall be directly linked to the objectives of the School Fruit and Vegetables Scheme of increasing short and long-term fruit and vegetable consumption and contrib- uting to shaping healthy eating habits. These measures may involve also parents and teachers. (*) Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament of the Council of 17 December 2013 establishing a common organisation of the markets in agricultural products and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 922/72, (EEC) No 234/79, (EC) No 1037/2001 and (EC) No 1234/2007 (O] L 347, 20.12.2013, p. 671).; () OJL347,20.12.2013,p. 671. (*) Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation) (OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1). () Commission Regulation (EC) No 288/2009 of 7 April 2009 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 12342007 as regards Community aid for supplying fruit and vegetables, processed fruit and vegetables and banana products to chil- dren in educational establishments, in the framework of a School Fruit Scheme (O] L 94, 8.4.2009, p. 38).