31. 12. 88 Official Journal of the European Communities No L 367/63 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 4176/88 of 28 December 1988 laying down detailed rules of application for the granting of flat-rate aid for certain fisheries products THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3796/81 of 29 December 1981 on the common organization of the market in fishery products('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3468/88 (3, and in particular Article 14b (8) thereof, Whereas Article 14b of Regulation (EEC) No 3796/81 provides that Member States are to grant a flat-rate aid to producers’ organizations which, subject to certain conditions, withdraw from the market products listed in Annex VI to that Regulation ; whereas this intervention is founded on the application of an autonomous withdrawal price which is determined by the producers’ organizations and which must be notified to the Member States by the beginning of each fishing year; Whereas the conditions to which the producers’ organi- zations should be subject within this scheme should be determined ; Whereas the flat-rate aid may only be paid at the end of the fishing year; whereas it should nevertheless be provided that advance payments may be made against securities ; Whereas the Member States should be authorized to fix the standard value used in calculating the flat-rate aid broken down according to the destination of the products withdrawn as provided for in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1501/93 of 9 June 1983 on the disposal of certain fishery products which have been the subject of measures to stabilize the market (%) ; Whereas in order to help guarantee product quality and the disposal of these products on the market, the minimum conditions to apply to processing, storage and the re-release onto the market of the processed products should be determined ; Whereas in order to allow regular monitoring, the producers’ organizations must keep stock records; whereas these records must include the information needed to make monitoring possible ; Whereas the time limits within which Member States must communicate information to the Commission should be determined; Whereas, in the framework of the existing scheme, it is opportune to apply mutatis mutandis, certain provisions () OJ No L 379, 31. 12. 1981, p. L. () OJ No L 305, 10. 11. 1988, p. 1. () OJ No L 152, 10. 6. 1983, p. 22. of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2202/82 of 28 July 1982 laying down general rules for the granting of financial compensation in respect of certain fishery products (*), of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3137/82 of 19 November 1982 laying down detailed rules for the granting of financial compensation in respect of certain fishery products (°), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 4175/88 (%), and of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3321/82 of 9 December 1982 laying down detailed rules for the granting of the carry-over premium for certain fishery products (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 3940/87 (%); Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Fishery products, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 This Regulation lays down detailed rules of application for the granting of the flat-rate aid provided for in Article 14b of Regulation (EEC) No 3796/81, hereinafter referred to as the ‘basic Regulation’. A. General conditions Article 2 In order to benefit from the flat-rate aid the producers’ organizations must communicate to the competent authorities of the Member States before the beginning of each fishing year the list of the fishery products concerned, broken down by product category, and the autonomous withdrawal price referred to in Article 14b (1) (a), of the basic regulation. However, a producer organization may apply for one or several categories, an autonomous withdrawal price exceeding the maximum level foreseen in Article 14b (1) without losing the right to flat-rate aid for the categories for which the maximum level is respected. Article 3 The conditions laid down in Articles 2 and 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 2202/82 shall apply mutatis mutandis to the granting of the flat-rate aid. Conditions () OJ No L 235, 10. 8. 1982, p. 1. () OJ No L 335, 29. 11. 1982, p. 1. () See page 61 of this Official Journal. () OJ No L 351, 11. 12. 1982, p. 20. () OJ No L 373, 31. 12. 1987, p. 6.