Article 1

Regulation (EEC) No 1391/78 is hereby amended as follows:

1. 1..

   The following subparagraph is added to Article 5 (3):

   ‘Where such notification is not given or is given late, the competent authority shall check whether the producer has complied with the condition laid down in the last subparagraph of Article 2 (2) and in the second subparagraph of Article 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1078/77.’

2. 2..

   The following paragraph 6 is added to Article 8:

   ‘6.

   If, three months after transfer, the identity card cannot be submitted or cannot be submitted duly completed, the Member State may, notwithstanding paragraph 4, accept any other document presenting equivalent guarantees as proof of slaughter, death or export.’

3. 3..

   The following subparagraph is inserted after the first subparagraph of Article 9 (4):

   ‘Where such notification is not given or is given late, the competent authority shall check whether the transferee is to take over the obligations under the premium scheme.’

4. 4..

   Article 12 (4) is replaced by the following:

   ‘4.

   Notwithstanding Article 9 (1), in a case which cannot be deemed a case of force majeure and in which the beneficiary of the conversion premium no longer fulfils, during the conversion period, the undertaking referred to in Article 3 (2) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 1078/77, the amount of the premium to be recovered or, if the balance has still not been paid to him, the amount to be withheld for each year in respect of which the aforementioned undertaking was not fulfilled, shall be equal to 25 % of the total amount of the premium to which he would have been entitled, this percentage being reduced for each year in proportion to the difference between the number of livestock units kept and the required number of livestock units.’