8. 5. 91 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 115/15 v COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 1184/91 of 6 May 1991 laying down detailed rules for the application of the aid scheme for Portuguese ' cereal producers THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3653/90 of 11 December 1990 introducing transitional measures governing the common organization of the market in cereals and rice in Portugal ("), and in particular Article 10 thereof, Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 3653/90 introduces aid for producers of certain cereals placed on the market or sold by the producer to an intervention agency ; whereas the meaning of sale on the market should be defined; Whereas, for the satisfactory operation of the aid scheme, Member States should carry out checks to ensure that the aid is granted in accordance with the conditions laid down ; whereas aid applications must therefore contain a minimum amount of information for the purposes of the checks to be carried out; Whereas, to ensure efficient application, provision should be made for random on-the-spot checks of the accuracy of applications submitted ; whereas these checks should be made on a sufficiently representative number of aid applications ; Whereas provision should be made for the recovery of aid in the case of undue payment and for appropriate penal- ties for false declarations ; Whereas, for the satisfactory operation of the aid scheme, provision should be made for the data given in aid appli- cations to be computerized ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Cereals, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 The aid referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 3653/90 shall be granted to Portuguese cereal producers in accordance with the rules laid down in this Regulation. Article 2 1. The aid shall be paid to producers or their autho- rized representatives in respect of the quantities of cereals () OJ No L 362, 27. 12. 1990, p. 28. referred to in Article 1 (a) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2727/75 (3, harvested on the producer’s holding, and for which evidence is presented that they have been sold on the market. 2. For the purposes of this. Regulation, ‘sale on the market’ means the sale by producers of cereals in the form of grain to collection, trading and processing under- takings, other producers or an intervention agency. Article 3 1. The aid shall be paid by the Portuguese authorities to the producers or their authorized agents referred to in Article 2 at their request. 2. Aid applications shall be sent to the INGA and shall be accompanied by a chronological list of the sales of each cereal showing the quantity sold. For sales of quantities of less than 40 tonnes, producers shall submit a single application for each marketing year. 3. The final application for a marketing year shall be submitted not later than 31 July of the subsequent marketing year. 4.  The Portuguese authorities shall pay the aid at the latest by the end of the month following that in which the application is received. Article 4 1. In order to qualily under the aid scheme referred to in this Regulation, producers of cereals other than maize or grain sorghum shall submit to the competent authority each year, by 30 April at the latest, a crop declaration showing all the areas sown with each type of cereal, and their location on the basis of cadastral data or an informa- tion source recognized as equivalent by the body respon- sible for checking the areas such as a map or an aerial or satellite photograph allowing the inspection authorities to identify clearly the location of the areas. However, declarations concerning the 1991 cereals harvest shall be submitted by 31 May 1991 at the latest. In the case of maize and grain sorghum, the deadline for the submission of the crop declaration shall be 30 June. 2. The competent authority shall register the pro- ducer’s declaration and allocate it a registration number. () OJ No L 281, 1. 11. 1975, p. 1.