# Commission Regulation (EC) No 2366/98 of 30 October 1998 laying down detailed rules for the application of the system of production aid for olive oil for the 1998/1999, 1999/2000, 2000/01, 2001/02, 2002/03 and 2004/05 marketing years, Article 1

Extent: E+W+S+N.I.

1. For the purposes of granting aid for the production of olive oil as provided for in Article 5 of Regulation 136/66/EEC, before 1 December of each marketing year olive growers shall lodge crop declarations covering their olive trees in production and details of the olive groves they manage as at 1 November of the marketing year to which the declarations correspond. However, in order to improve the effectiveness of controls in certain regions, the Member States may extend the deadline for the lodging of declarations by a maximum of three months.
Before 1 January of the marketing year concerned, the Member States shall communicate to the Commission the regions and the reasons for which the deadline for the lodging of crop declarations has been extended, and the new date laid down.
2. For the purposes of this Regulation:
(a) ‘olive tree in production’ means a living olive tree of a species classed as domestic, permanently established, irrespective of age or condition, possibly possessing several trunks separated from one another at the base by less than two metres;
(b) ‘olive-growing parcel’ means:
a parcel of olive-trees as defined by the Member State concerned, or, if no such definition exists,
a continuous tract of land covered, over an area greater than that referred to in the second indent of Article 24(1), by olive trees in production each of which is less than 20 metres from another olive tree;
(c) ‘scattered olive trees’ means olive trees in production which do not fulfil the conditions necessary to constitute a group of trees on an olive-growing parcel;
(d) ‘area under olive trees’ means the area of an olive-growing parcel, or, for each scattered olive tree, an area of 1 are;
(e) ‘farmer’ and ‘holding’ mean the concepts as defined for the integrated system provided for in Article 1(4) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 3508/92.
3. Crop declarations shall be lodged with the competent agency of the Member State or, where applicable, the producer organisation of which the olive grower concerned is a member.

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Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/1998/2366/article/1 (the official version)
Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-1998-2366/article-1
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