Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/652 of 10 February 2021 amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/891 as regards the activities and operational programmes of producer organisations in the fruit and vegetables sector

‘2 A producer organisation outsourcing an activity shall enter into a written commercial arrangement by way of a contract, agreement or protocol with another entity, including one or several of its members or a subsidiary or an entity within a chain of subsidiaries, for the purpose of carrying out of the activity concerned. The producer organisation shall remain responsible for ensuring the carrying out of the outsourced activity and overall management control and supervision of the commercial arrangement for the carrying out of the activity. However, the activity shall be considered as carried out by the producer organisation if it is carried out by an association of producer organisations or a cooperative whose members are themselves cooperatives where the producer organisation is a member thereof or by a subsidiary or an entity within a chain of subsidiaries, complying with the 90 % requirement referred to in Article 22(8).’;

‘10 Where a reduction in production occurs due to a natural disaster, climatic event, animal or plant diseases or pest infestations, any insurance indemnification received in respect of harvest insurance actions covered by Section 7 of Chapter III, or equivalent actions managed by the producer organisation or its producer members, due to those causes may be included in the value of marketed production of the 12-month reference period in which it is actually paid.’;

‘6 Member States may decide to extend their national strategy until 31 December 2025. Member States shall notify the Commission of the extension decision.’;

‘2 Expenditure under operational programmes eligible for aid shall be restricted to the actual costs incurred. However, Member States may fix standard flat rates, scales of unit costs or lump sums, except for expenditure linked to crisis prevention and management measures. In addition, Member States may decide to use differentiated standard flat rates, scales of unit costs or lump sums to take into account regional or local specificities.’;

‘2 The share of market withdrawals of any given product of any given producer organisation undertaken in a given year shall be as follows: (a) it shall not exceed 10 % of the average volume of marketed production by that producer organisation during the three previous years; and (b) in total, the sum of the percentages over three consecutive years shall not exceed 15 when adding the share calculated in accordance with point (a) for the current year and the shares of the market withdrawals of the two previous years calculated on the basis of the respective volume of marketed production by that producer organisation during those two previous years. If the information on the volume of marketed production of any or all of the previous years is not available, the volume of marketed production for which the producer organisation was recognised shall be used. However, amounts of withdrawals which are disposed of in one of the ways referred to in Article 34(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 or any other way approved by Member States under Article 46(2) of this Regulation shall not be taken into account in that proportion.’;

‘2 Member States may grant additional national financing to support harvest insurance actions which are benefiting from the operational fund. However, total public support for harvest insurance shall not exceed 80 % of the cost of the insurance premiums paid for by producers for insurance against losses.’;

‘3 The coaching recipient shall be a recognised producer organisations, a producer group or the individual producers, non-members of a producer organisation or their associations.’;

This Regulation shall enter into force the seventh day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.