Article 2

Greece shall adopt the necessary measures to ensure the effective monitoring of the use of the aid for transhumance. Monitoring shall cover at least the following supporting documents:

• a carriage invoice or invoices showing the means of transport, the number and type of animals transported, the distance covered and the cost of transport,

• two certificates showing the number of animals transported, one issued by the local authority of the place of departure and the other by the local authority of the place of arrival,

• a statement by the livestock farmer giving details of the number in his flocks or herds, his method of stock-farming, the number of animals transported, the means of transport used, the distance covered and the places of departure and arrival.

Aid for transhumance shall be granted for a single journey from the winter to the summer pastures or vice versa. It shall be paid to livestock farmers after they have made application in respect of the following removal. Livestock farmers whose herds or flocks have been reduced between two applications shall lose, as regards the first application, the right to aid for the transport of the amount of livestock by which their flocks or herds have been reduced.

However, there shall be no loss of the right to aid:

• when the farmer gives over his farm to his family successor up to the third degree of relationship,

• in the case of force majeure and in particular in the case of contagious diseases requiring the compulsory slaughter of all or part of the farmer's herds or flocks.

The supporting documents referred to in paragraph 1 shall form part of each application file for aid.