No-L 100/18 Official Journal of the European Communities 20. 4. 91 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 967/91 of 19 April 1991 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 307/91 on reinforcing the monitoring of certain expenditure chargeable to the _ Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 307/91 on reinforcing the monitoring of certain expenditure chargeable to the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (), and in particular Article 7 thereof, Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 307/91 provides specifi- cally that the Community is to contribute to the financ- ing of certain expenditure incurred by the Member States for the remuneration of additional personnel and the cost of training, briefing and equipping the staff of the depart- ments involved in the reinforcement measures ; whereas the detailed rules of application should specify certain expenditure eligible for Community assistance in order to ensure uniform application of the scheme; Whereas the fixing of the flat-rate amounts to be used throughout the Community to indicate the expenditure incurred on remuneration should be specified ; Whereas the Community contribution also applies to expenditure incurred by the Member States for monitor- ing work entrusted to approved surveillance firms and laboratories ; whereas both the rules governing the approval of such firms and laboratories and the expendi- ture eligible for Community financing should therefore be specified ; . Whereas the rules governing the monitoring agencies which the Member States may set up should be specified ; Whereas the Commission allocates the amount of the Community contribution each year among the Member States which so request; whereas the conditions for making and sending this request should be laid down ; Whereas it is necessary to specify the content of the report sent by the Member States, on the basis of which the Commission will make its annual assessment of the results of the reinforcement measures ; () OJ No L 37, 9. 2. 1991, p. 5. Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the EAGGF Committee, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : ! Article 1 1.  The flat-rate amount representing salaries and travel costs referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 307/91 is fixed at ECU 28 500 per person per annum. 2. ‘Data-processing and office ‘equipment’ as referred to in Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 307/91, shall mean all data-processing equipment, including software, telecommunications equipment such as telephones, telex and fax machines and the costs of installing such equip- ment, not including the usual office equipment and furni- ture. 3. “Transport equipment’, as referred to in Article § of Regulation (EEC) No 307/91, shall mean any vehicle used to transport persons and directly used for carrying out the checks. Article 2 The training and briefing costs referred to in the second indent of Article 1 (1) and the second indent of Article 2 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 307/91 shall comprise all actual expenditure arising from the organization of train- ing courses and seminars of at least one day’s duration, including the fees of the trainers, the travel costs of the agents attending and the documentation provided, as well as the cost of disclosing specialized information. Article 3 1. Before 31 January each year, the Member States shall inform the Commission whether they intend to apply for the Community financing provided for in Atticles 1 and 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 307/91, and shall provide details of estimated expenditure for the calendar year in question together with a request for an advance payment, pursuant to Article 6 of that Regulation, before 31 March. ' For the first year of application, Member States shall make these notifications before 30 June 1991. Estimates shall be drawn up in accordance with the table in the Annex.