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  "url": "https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2013-756/introduction",
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  "legislation": "eur/2013/756",
  "legislation_title": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 756/2013 of 6 August 2013 amending Regulation (EC) No 657/2008 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards Community aid for supplying milk and certain milk products to pupils in educational establishments",
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  "path": "introduction",
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  "number": null,
  "heading": "Introductory text",
  "text": "Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 756/2013\nof 6 August 2013\namending Regulation (EC) No 657/2008 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards Community aid for supplying milk and certain milk products to pupils in educational establishments\nTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,\nHaving regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation), and in particular Article 102 in conjunction with Article 4 thereof,\nWhereas:\n(1)\nCommission Regulation (EC) No 657/2008 lays down rules for applying Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as regards Union aid for supplying certain milk products to pupils in educational establishments under Article 102 of that Regulation. In order to improve the administrative and financial management of the school milk scheme, certain rules should be clarified.\n(2)\nArticle 11(2) of Regulation (EC) No 657/2008 provides that payment applications may cover periods of one to seven months. It is appropriate to specify that each such period should be within one single school year period running from 1 August to 31 July.\n(3)\nArticle 15(4) of Regulation (EC) No 657/2008 provides that on-the-spot checks shall be conducted throughout the period from 1 August to 31 July and shall cover a period of at least the previous 12 months. In order to make controls more effective, the time span for carrying out the on-the-spot checks should encompass the school year period running from 1 August to 31 July to which they relate and the following 12 months, leaving to Member States to decide on the timing of the on-the-spot checks within that time span. The on-the-spot checks should however cover a period of at least four months of the school year period concerned. Deadlines for the completion of on-the-spot checks and of the control reports should also be fixed.\n(4)\nIn order to take account of the deadlines concerning on-the-spot checks established in the present Regulation, the deadline for notifying information provided for in Article 17(1) of Regulation (EC) No 657/2008 should be amended. In addition, it is necessary to clarify that the notifications referred to in that Article relate to the products distributed in the respective school year period running from 1 August to 31 July.\n(5)\nIn order to assess the proportion of children participating in the school milk scheme, it is appropriate to provide for additional information to be submitted in accordance with Article 17(2) of Regulation (EC) No 657/2008.\n(6)\nRegulation (EC) No 657/2008 should therefore be amended accordingly.\n(7)\nIt is necessary to make the new rules applicable as from the beginning of the new school year period which starts on 1 August 2013.\n(8)\nThe measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural Markets,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:",
  "extent": "E+W+S+N.I.",
  "status": null,
  "version": "current",
  "annotations": [
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 183, 11.7.2008, p. 17."
    }
  ],
  "outstanding_effects": [],
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  "attribution": "Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives."
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