The purpose of this Order is to develop Royal Decree 1486/1998 of 10 July 1998 on the modernization and improvement of the competitiveness of the dairy sector in relation to the National Fund Coordinated for Dairy Quota and the allocation of the Supplementary to the national reserve in the 2000/2001 period.

Royal Decree 1486/1998 establishes in its Chapter II the National Coordinated Fund for Dairy Quota (hereinafter the Fund), within the National Reserve, as one of the basic elements of the program of modernization of the sector.

Specifically, in Chapter IV, it regulates the reference quantities released in the abandonment programmes, having their subsequent reallocation both through the allocation of the quota fund and the additional allocation of funds. the national reserve, fixing the price of the Fund's share as the weighted average of the allowances paid in the corresponding abandonment programme.

The amounts currently in the Fund have been acquired through the compensation scheme for abandonment carried out during the period 1999/2000 under the Order of the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food of 9 December 2000. September 1999, for which the National Abandonment Programme of Dairy Production is implemented for the period 1999/2000. The distribution of the same between the producers in each Autonomous Community is effected under the provisions of the second subparagraph of Article 15 (1) (a) of Royal Decree 324/1994 of 28 February 1994 laying down rules for the (a) the regulation of the milk and milk products sector and the supplementary levy scheme.

Royal Decree 1486/1998 also provides that the Ministry of Agriculture Fisheries and Food will determine the procedure for the payment by the producers of the quotas acquired from the Fund, enabling an account to this end. specific.

For its part, its second final provision empowers the Minister of Agriculture to amend the ceilings for the additional allocation, as well as the conditions of the producers for access to the Fund.

Finally, Royal Decree 1931/1998 of 11 September 1998 extending the time limit for the submission of applications for compensation for the abandonment of milk production for the period 1998/1999, gives the power, in Article 2, to the Minister of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food to modify the deadlines and terms provided for in Royal Decree 1486/1998, relating to the submission of applications by private individuals.

In its virtue, I have:

Article 1. Object.

The purpose of this Order is to develop Royal Decree 1486/1998 of 10 July 1998 on the modernization and improvement of the competitiveness of the dairy sector as regards the implementation of the Coordinated National Fund. Milk quotas and the additional allocation of the national reserve for the 2000/2001 period.

Article 2. Existing amounts in the Fund and price.

The amount of quota existing in the Fund for the period 2000/2001 is raised to 25,580 tonnes, in compliance with Article 5 of the Order of 9 September 1999 implementing the National Abandonment Programme of the Dairy production for the period 1999/2000. These quantities are distributed among the Autonomous Communities.

The selling price of the Fund amounts is set at 52.81 pesetas/kilo.

Article 3. Beneficiaries.

Cattlemen who wish to obtain, by payment of the corresponding amount, the allocation of national Fund quotas shall meet the following requirements:

(a) Dispose of an allocated quota of less than 400,000 kilograms by 1 April 2000.

b) Be included in any of the categories of producers listed in Article 34.1 of Royal Decree 1486/1998.

(c) Not to have received the final abandonment programmes for milk production, financed from European Union, national or regional funds.

(d) Not to have transferred or transferred reference quantities during the last five periods, including the one in which the application is submitted to the Coordinated Fund.

e) Haber marketed in the period 1999/2000, at least 90 per 100 of its reference quantity.

f) Meet the health conditions required for the production and marketing of milk and milk products.

Article 4. Applications to the Fund.

1. Livestock farmers meeting the conditions of the previous Article, interested in obtaining reference quantities from the Fund for the period 2000/2001, must submit, by 1 November 2000, an application to the the competent authority of the Autonomous Community in which it radiuses its holding, containing at least the data contained in the model set out in Annex 2 to Royal Decree 1486/1998.

2. The maximum amount that a farmer may apply for depends on the reference quantity assigned to him on 1 April 2000.

a) If your assigned reference quantity is less than 150,000 kilograms, up to a maximum of 33 per 100 kilograms.

b) If their assigned reference quantity is between 150,000 and 250,000 kilograms, up to a maximum of 25 per 100 of the difference between their quota and 350,000 kilograms.

(c) If your assigned reference quantity is between 250,000 and 400,000 kilograms, up to a maximum of 10 percent of the difference between your quota and 500,000 kilograms.

However, regardless of the dairy quota of the farmer, no quantities of less than 5,000 kilograms shall be allocated.

In the case of agricultural processing companies, production cooperatives, communities of goods or civil societies with reference quantity allocated in the name of the entity, the limits indicated for access to the quotas shall be calculated by dividing the quota allocated by the number of farmers to the main title which they integrate, and the maximum quantity which they may request shall be the result of multiplying by that number the quantity which would correspond to each, according to the previous scales.

3. The persons concerned shall undertake to make the request that they may withdraw from the application only before the referral to the Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food by the competent bodies of the Autonomous Communities of the allocation.

Article 5. Processing of the allocation of the Fund.

The Autonomous Communities based on Article 15.1 of Royal Decree 1486/1998 of 10 July 1998 on the modernization and improvement of the competitiveness of the dairy sector will draw up a proposal for the allocation of reference quantities. which they shall notify to the persons concerned and shall send them to the Directorate-General for Livestock before 15 December 2000.

Within 10 days of receipt of the proposal, the farmers shall enter the amount of the quantities indicated in the current account set out in the Annex.

The Autonomous Community, once the effective income has been checked, will forward to the General Directorate of Livestock the ratio of the farmers included in the proposal that have not constituted in time the income to the effect of the exclusion of the interested in the resolution of the allocation in accordance with Article 15 of Royal Decree 1486/1998 of July 10, on modernization and improvement of the competitiveness of the dairy sector.

Article 6. Resignations.

Applicants who do not enter the amount in time for the amounts acquired in the Fund shall be deemed to be dislodged from their application.

The allocation may not be waived after the entry of the amounts corresponding to the acquisition of the quota to the Fund.

Article 7. Additional allocation of the Fund.

The limits of the additional allocation set out in Article 17 of Royal Decree 1486/1998 of 10 July 1998 on modernisation and improvement of the competitiveness of the dairy sector are amended:

(a) An applicant may not receive additional allocation beyond the limit of 100 per 100 of the reference quantity acquired from the quota fund, where its assigned reference quantity is less than 250,000 kilograms.

(b) In cases where their assigned reference quantity is between 250,001 and 400,000 kilograms, the applicants may not receive additional allocation above the limit of 80 per 100 of the quantity acquired from the Fund of quotas.

Single end disposition.

This Order shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the "Official State Gazette".

Madrid, 26 September 2000.

CANETE ARIAS

Ilmos Messrs. General Secretary of Agriculture and General Manager of Livestock.

ANNEX

Current account for income described in Article 5

Denomination: National Dairy Quota Fund.

Holder: Ministry of Agriculture, Fisheries and Food. Secretary-General for Agriculture.

Banco: "Argentaria, Caja Postal and Banco Mortgage, Sociedad Anonymous".

Current Account Number: 0104-0301-27 0302043988.