No L 221/22 Official Journal of the European Communities 6. 8. 92 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2294/92 of 31 July 1992 on detailed rules for the applicatioﬁ of the support system for producers of the oil seeds referred to in 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 Articles 11 (1) and 12 thereof, ' Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1676/85 of 11 June 1985 on the value of the unit of account and the conversion rates to be applied for the purposes of the common agricultural policy (%), as last amended by Regu- lation (EEC) No 2205/90 (%), and in particular Article 5 (3) thereof, Whereas, to avoid the risk of an increase in the area under oil seed crops, access to compensatory payments should be restricted to producers sowing crops in climatically and agronomically suitable regions ; Whereas, in accordance with the policy of improvement of quality pursued bythe Community, access to compen- satory payments for growers of rape should be limited to those producers who cultivate certain varieties and quali- ties of seed; Whereas the Commission has proposed 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 Oils and Fats, () OJ No L 181, 1. 7. 1992, p. 12. () OJ No L 164, 24. 6. 1985, p. 1. () OJ No L 201, 31. 7. 1990, p. 9. () COM(91) 533 final, OJ No C 9, 15. 1. 1992, p. 4. 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) “oil seed crops’ means arable crops producing oil seeds as referred to in Annex I to the above Regulation ; {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 ; (c) ‘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 oil seed crops. TITLE 11 Eligibility for compensatory payments Article 2 1. The compensatory payment provided for in Article § (1) and (2), first subparagraph, of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92 shall be allocated solely to areas under oil seed crops: (a) situated in production regions or parts of production regions declared climatically and agronomically suitable for the cultivation of oil seed 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 a cultivation plan and lodged with the competent authority by the date set by the Member State for that seed and region in question, which may not be later than the date mentioned in Annex I;