No L 70/12 Official Journal of the European Communities: “16. 3. 88 COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 675/88 of 15 March 1988 laying down detailed rules for the production aid for certain varieties of rice THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 of 21 June 1976 on the common organization of the market in rice ('), as last amended by Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3990/87 (3, and in particular Article 8a (5) thereof, Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 3878/87 of 18 December 1987 on the production aid for certain varieties of rice () lays down the general rules for the granting of the aid ; whereas it is for the Commission to lay down the relevant detailed rules of application ; Whereas the areas of production and the varieties for which aid may be granted are laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 3878/87; Whereas, pursuant to Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 3878/87, the Member States are to introduce a system of control -and a system of declarations in respect of areas under cultivation and of the varieties sown in order to ensure that the product for which the aid is applied for meets the conditions laid down for the granting thereof ; whereas declarations, which are deemed to be aid applications, must include a minimum of information for the purposes of controls to be carried out by the Member States ; Whereas certain rules regarding the checks provided for in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 3878/87 should be specified more clearly by defining the minimum items of information to be checked and, on account of the cost and administrative difficulties, the simplified system for declarations relating to small areas; Whereas provision should be made, on the one hand, for measures to discurage declarations which do not comply with the facts and, on the other hand, for the maintenance of the right to aid in cases of force majeure and of natural disasters ; Whereas in order to enable farmers to benefit fully from the aid, the period during which the aid must be paid and the conversion rate to be used for conversion into national currency should be specified ; Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Cereals, ( No L 166, 25. 6. 1976, p. 1 () O] No L 377, 31. 12. 1987, p. 15. No L 365, 24. 12. 1987, p. 3. HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION : Article 1 The aid provided for in Article 8a of Regulation (EEC) No 1418/76 shall be granted for production of the varieties of rice listed in Annex B to Regulation (EEC) No 3878/87 which are cultivated in the areas listed in Annex A thereto. Article 2 Aid shall be granted only in respect of areas: (a) which have actually been sown and for which normal cultivation work has been caaried out and on which the rice has ripened; (b) which have been the subject-matter of a declaration in accordance with the system provided for in Article 3 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3878/87. Article 3 1. Under the system provided for in Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 3878/87: (a) Bach rice producer concerned shall submit a single declaration for all areas for which aid is applied for to - the competent body in the Member State where he is situated. Failure to comply with this condition shall entail the rejection of the application. Declarations shall be submitted before a date to be fixed by the Member States, which shall not be later than 15 July each year, in respect of the following marketing year. (b) Declarations shall contain at least the following information : — "the name, first name and address of the applicant, — the areas cultivated, in hectares and ares and the cadastral reference number of those areas or, failing that, a description recognized as equivalent by thé body responsible for checking such areas, and the names, first names and addresses of the - owners of the areas concerned, — the days of sowing, and the foreseeable month-and 10-day period of harvest, — the variety sown. Purchase invoices and documents certifying the seed must be attached to the declarations.