7.10.2014 Official Journal of the European Union L 291/1 II (Non-legislative acts) REGULATIONS COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) No 10462014 of 28 July 2014 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 508/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council on the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund with regards to the criteria for the calculation of the ad- ditional costs incurred by operators in the fishing, farming, processing and marketing of certain fishery and aquaculture products from the outermost regions THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 508/2014 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 15 May 2014 on the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund and repealing Council Regulations (EC) No 2328/2003, (EC) No 861/2006, (EC) No 1198/2006 and (EC) No 791/2007 and Regulation (EU) No 1255/2011 of the European Parliament and of the Council (), and in particular Article 72(4) thereof, Whereas: (1)  Under Chapter V of Regulation (EU) No 508/2014, the European Maritime and Fisheries Fund (EMFF) may support the compensation of additional costs incurred by operators in the fishing, farming, processing and marketing of certain fishery and aquaculture products from the Union’s outermost regions referred to in Article 349 of the Treaty, (2)  In order to maintain the competitiveness of certain fishery and aquaculture products from the Union’s outermost regions compared with that of similar products from other Union’s regions, the Union introduced measures in 1992 to compensate for the related additional costs in the fisheries and aquaculture sectors. The compensation measures for the period 2007-2013 were laid down in Council Regulation (EC) No 791/2007 (3. Due to the Union’s outermost regions’ structural, social and economic situation, compounded by their remoteness, insularity, small size, difficult topography, economic dependence on a few products, and special climatic conditions, it is necessary to continue to providing support to offset additional costs for the fishing, farming, processing and marketing of certain fishery and aquaculture products as of 1 January 2014. Indeed, the compensation for addi- tional costs incurred helps operators from those regions to remain economically viable. (3)  Those additional costs should be laid out in a compensation plan as referred to in Article 72 of Regulation (EU) No 508/2014. (4)  In order to provide for a harmonised and equal treatment of all regions concerned, through a better comparability between regions and from one year to the next, and in particular in order to avoid overcompensation of addi- tional costs, it is necessary to lay down the criteria for the calculation of the additional costs resulting from the specific handicaps of the Union’s outermost regions. The common criteria to be used will ensure that a homoge- neous method of calculation of the additional costs is applied to all regions concerned. (5)  Reference costs for products or categories of products incurred by operators in the continental part of the Member State or of the Union territory on the basis of which additional costs are determined should be estimated with particular care to avoid overcompensation. () OJL149,20.5.2014,p. 1. (*) Council Regulation (EC) No 791/2007 of 21 May 2007 introducing a scheme to compensate for the additional costs incurred in the marketing of certain fishery products from the outermost regions the Azores, Madeira, the Canary Islands, French Guiana and Réunion (OJL 176, 6.7.2007, p. 1).