Financial assistance for non-harvesting and green harvesting to producers not being members of producer organisations
Article 6
1. Union financial assistance shall be granted to producers who are not members of a recognised producer organisation to carry out non-harvesting and green harvesting operations in respect of the products referred to in Article 1(2) and during the period referred to in Article 1(3). By way of derogation from Article 85(3) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011, the following shall apply: (a) support for green harvesting shall cover only the products which are physically on the fields, which are actually green harvested and for which normal harvest has not begun; (b) non-harvesting measures shall not be undertaken where commercial production has been taken from the area concerned during the normal production cycle; (c) green harvesting and non-harvesting shall in no circumstances both be applied to the same product and the same given area. 2. The amounts of Union financial assistance for non-harvesting and green harvesting operations shall be 50 % of the amounts set by Member States in accordance with Article 5(2). 3. Producers not being members of a recognised producer organisation shall make the appropriate notification to the competent authority of the Member State in accordance with the detailed provisions adopted by the Member State pursuant to Article 85(1)(a) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011. In such cases, the competent authority of the Member State shall pay the Union financial assistance directly to the producer. Member States shall adopt new or apply existing national rules or procedures for this purpose. 4. Where the recognition of a producer organisation has been suspended in accordance with Article 114(2) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011, its members shall be deemed to be producers not being members of a recognised producer organisation for the purpose of this Article. 5. Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and Implementing Regulation (EU) No 543/2011 shall apply mutatis mutandis in respect of this Article.