Article 16a Payment of retroactive restructuring aid to growers and undertakings having restructured in 2006/2007 and 2007/2008F1

The retroactive payments provided for in Article 3(8) of Regulation (EC) No 320/2006 shall concern the amounts which make up the positive difference between the aid granted to undertakings and growers in the 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 marketing year and the aid which would have been granted under the conditions valid for the 2008/2009 marketing year.

For the purposes of the application of the first subparagraph, the Member States shall notify to the Commission by 30 November 2007 at the latest the percentages they have fixed for growers and contractors in accordance with Article 3(6) of Regulation (EC) No 320/2006 for all restructuring applications granted for the 2006/2007 and 2007/2008 marketing years.

The Commission shall fix the amounts per Member State that may thus be granted retroactively.

The retroactive payments shall be made in June 2008.

Article 16(1) and (2) shall apply mutatis mutandis .