Beneficiaries
Article 40
1. Member States shall establish which operators, may benefit from interventions in the wine sector specified in their CAP Strategic Plans. Those operators shall include beneficiaries as referred to in paragraphs 2, 3 and 4 as well as professional organisations, wine producer organisations, associations of wine producer organisations, temporary or permanent associations of two or more wine producers and interbranch organisations. 2. Member States shall provide for wine growers to be the sole beneficiaries of the types of intervention ‘restructuring and conversion of vineyards’, ‘green harvesting’ and ‘harvest insurance’ referred to in Article 58(1), first subparagraph, points (a), (c) and (d), of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, respectively. 3. A body governed by public law may not benefit from support under the types of intervention in the wine sector. However, Member States may allow a body governed by public law to benefit from the support: (a) for actions implemented by interbranch organisations as referred to in Article 58(1), first subparagraph, points (i) and (j), of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115; (b) for information actions and promotion and communication carried out in third countries as referred to in Article 58(1), first subparagraph, points (h) and (k), of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115, provided that, it is not the sole beneficiary of the support granted in respect of those interventions. 4. Private companies may be beneficiaries for the promotion and communications carried out in third countries as referred to in Article 58(1), first subparagraph, point (k), of Regulation (EU) 2021/2115. 5. No support shall be granted to producers farming unlawful plantings and areas planted with vines without authorisation pursuant to Article 71 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013.