{
  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-1761/article-8",
  "json_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-1761/article-8.json",
  "legislation": "eur/2004/1761",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Regulation (EC) No 1761/2004 of 12 October 2004 laying down specific measures in the cauliflower sector",
  "legislation_url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2004-1761",
  "path": "article/8",
  "kind": "article",
  "number": "8",
  "heading": "Applications for and payment of aid",
  "text": "1. Producer organisations shall present their aid application to the competent authorities of the Member States each quarter, not later than the 15th of the month following the end of the quarter covered by the aid application.\nNo aid shall be granted if the application is presented beyond this deadline.\n2. Each aid application for a particular quarter shall include the following information:\n(a) the name and address of the producer organisation;\n(b) the total quantity of cauliflowers delivered and accepted for processing during the quarter concerned, broken down by processor; the aid application shall specify, within this quantity, the quantity corresponding to deliveries made where the conditions referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 5(5) have been met;\n(c) the minimum quantity referred to in Article 4(2)(c);\n(d) the quantity of cauliflowers withdrawn from the market under Article 23 of Regulation (EC) No 2200/96;\n(e) the marketed quantity of cauliflowers, within the meaning of Article 2(2) of Regulation (EC) No 103/2004;\n(f) the quantity covered by the aid application.\n3. Member States shall notify the Commission, not later than the 20th of the month following the end of the quarter concerned, of the total quantities which are the subject of applications for payment, broken down by requesting producer organisation.\n4. If the quantities referred to in paragraph 3 are such that the total of the quantities which have benefited from the aid in the course of the previous quarters and of the quantities referred to in paragraph 3 does not exceed 50 000 tonnes, the Commission shall authorise the Member States to pay the aid applied for.\nIf the total of the quantities which have benefited from the aid in the course of the previous quarters and of the quantities referred to in paragraph 3 exceeds 50 000 tonnes, the Commission shall fix a reduction percentage for the applications, applicable to the quantities referred to in paragraph 3.\n5. The aid shall be paid by the competent authorities of the Member States once the provisions referred to in paragraph 4 have been implemented and if these authorities have carried out the checks provided for in Article 9(a) and checked that the aid application tallies with the delivery certificates referred to in Article 7(2).",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
  "provenance": {
    "source": "legislation.gov.uk",
    "source_url": "https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2004/1761/article/8",
    "retrieved_at": "2026-11-01T14:55:14.178805+00:00"
  },
  "licence": "Open Government Licence v3.0",
  "licence_url": "https://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3/",
  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
}