Article 1 Purpose

Under the terms of this Regulation, producer organisations shall receive aid of EUR 50 per tonne for certain cauliflowers harvested in the Community falling within CN code ex 0704 10 00 delivered for processing when price levels have dropped on the fresh cauliflower market.

The aid referred to in paragraph 1 shall be paid quarterly, in accordance with the periods laid down in the second paragraph of Article 3, for certain quantities of cauliflowers delivered to processors and accepted by those processors where the price conditions referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 5(5) have been met.

For each quarter concerned, without prejudice to Article 8(4), the aid referred to in paragraph 1 of this Article shall be paid for the quantities delivered to processors, and accepted by those processors, in excess of the minimum quantities referred to in Article 4(2)(c).

The sum of the quantities benefiting from the aid referred to in paragraph 1 and of the quantities withdrawn under the terms of Article 23 of Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 may not, however, exceed 15 % of the quantities marketed in the same quarter.