Commission Regulation (EC) No 1388/2007 of 27 November 2007 amending Regulation (EC) No 382/2005 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1786/2003 on the common organisation of the market in dried fodder

For the purposes of this Regulation: 1. “dried fodder” means the products referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1786/2003; 2. “similar fodder products” means all artificially heat-dried herbage fodder products falling within CN code 12149090 and in particular: herbage legumes, herbage grasses, whole plants, harvested green with unripe grain, of the cereals listed in point I of Annex IX to Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003; 3. “processing undertaking” means the dried fodder processing undertaking referred to in Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 1786/2003, duly approved by the Member State in which it is located; 4. “purchaser of fodder for drying and/or grinding” means the natural or legal persons referred to in Article 10(c)(iii) of Regulation (EC) No 1786/2003, duly approved by the Member State where they are established, who purchase fresh fodder from producers in order to deliver it to processing undertakings; 5. “lot” means a specific quantity of fodder of uniform quality as regards composition, moisture content and protein content, leaving a processing undertaking at the same time; 6. “mixture” means an animal feed product containing dried fodder which has been dried and/or ground by the processing undertaking, and additives. “Additives” are products of a different type from dried fodder, including binding agents and caking agents, or of the same type but dried and/or ground elsewhere. However, dried fodder containing no more than 3 % additives as a percentage of the total weight of the finished product shall not be regarded as a mixture where the total nitrogen content, relative to the dry matter of the additive, does not exceed 2,4 %; 7. “agricultural parcels” means the parcels identified in accordance with the identification system for agricultural parcels in the integrated administration and control system referred to in Articles 18 and 20 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and in Article 6 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 796/2004 ; 8. “single aid application” means the aid application referred to in Article 22 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and Articles 12 and 14 of Regulation (EC) No 796/2004; 9. “final consignee of a lot of dried fodder” means the last person to have received that lot in the form in which it left the processing undertaking, with a view to processing the dried fodder or using it in animal feed.

For the purposes of this Regulation, the aid provided for in Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1786/2003 shall be payable on dried fodder meeting, in addition to the requirements specified in Article 9 of that Regulation, the requirements for being placed on the market as feedingstuffs which leave, in the unaltered state or as a mixture, the premises of the processing undertaking, or, where they cannot be stored on the latter, a storage location outside the same which provides adequate guarantees of proper supervision of the stored fodder and which has been approved in advance by the competent authority. The aid shall be payable solely on quantities of products obtained by drying fodder produced on parcels utilised for agriculture within the meaning of Article 51 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003.’

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall apply from the 2008/09 marketing year.