Commission Regulation (EEC) No 84/83 of 14 January 1983 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1391/78 laying down amended rules for the application of the system of premiums for the non-marketing of milk and milk products and for the conversion of dairy herds

‘6 If, three months after transfer, the identity card cannot be submitted or cannot be submitted duly completed, the Member State may, notwithstanding paragraph 4, accept any other document presenting equivalent guarantees as proof of slaughter, death or export.’

‘4 Notwithstanding Article 9 (1), in a case which cannot be deemed a case of force majeure and in which the beneficiary of the conversion premium no longer fulfils, during the conversion period, the undertaking referred to in Article 3 (2) (c) of Regulation (EEC) No 1078/77, the amount of the premium to be recovered or, if the balance has still not been paid to him, the amount to be withheld for each year in respect of which the aforementioned undertaking was not fulfilled, shall be equal to 25 % of the total amount of the premium to which he would have been entitled, this percentage being reduced for each year in proportion to the difference between the number of livestock units kept and the required number of livestock units.’

Article 1 (1) and (3) and, at the request of the party concerned, Article 1 (2) and (4) shall apply to aid applications submitted from 1 July 1977 either pursuant to Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 1307/77 or pursuant to Article 4 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1391/78.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.