No L 221/28 Official Journal of the European Communities 6. 8. 92 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2295/92 of 31 July 1992 on detailed rules for the application of the support system for producers of the protein crops referred to in Article 6 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92 of 30 June 1992 establishing a support system for produ- cers of certain arable crops ('), and in particular Article 12 thereof, Whereas, to avoid the risk of an increase in the area under protein crops, access to compensatory payments should be restricted to producers sowing crops in climatically and agronomically suitable regions; Whereas the Commission has propbsed an integrated control system (%) ; Whereas the contents of the application of the control arrangements and the penalties applicable in the event of false declarations shall be defined at a later date in accor- dance with the conditions of the integrated control system ; Whereas producers may apply for the compensatory payments under either the general scheme or the simpli- fied scheme ; whereas certain criteria should be common to both schemes; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Dried Fodder, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : TITLE 1 General Provisions Article 1 1.  This Regulation establishes the detailed rules for the application of Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92 with effect from the 1993/94 marketing year. 2. For the purposes of this Regulation : (a) ‘protein crops’ means arable crops producing protein seeds as referred to in Annex I to the above Regula- tion ; () OJ No L 181, 1. 7. 1992, p. 12. () COM (91) 533 final, OJ No C 9, 15. 1. 1992, p. 4. t (b) ‘compensatory payment’ means a transfer of funds to the producer from the competent authority of the Member State in whose territory the eligible areas are located ; (¢) ‘production region’ means a region determined within the meaning of Article 3 (1) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92 in respect of which compensatory payments per hectare have been fixed for protein crops. TITLE 1I Eligibility for compensatory payments Article 2 The compensatory payment provided for in Article 6 of Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92 shall be allocated solely to areas under protein crops: (a) situated in production regions or parts of production regions declared climatically and agronomically suitable for the cultivation of protein crops by the Member State ; (b) included in a ‘general scheme’ as referred to in Article 2 (5) (a) of Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92; (c) covered by an application including reference docu- ments enabling the land in question to be identified, and lodged with the competent authority by 15 May at the latest; (d) entirely sown by that date at the latest with peas, field beans or sweet lupins in accordance with locally- recognized standards ; (¢) in respect of which the total area in the application is at least 0,3 hectares and each cultivated plot of which exceeds the minimum size set by the Member State for the production region in question. Article 3 The areas in respect of which an application is submitted shall be reduced by the competent authority of the Member State in accordance with the provisions : — of Article 2 of Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92 ; where the regional base area or, as the case may be, the indi- vidual base area is exceeded,