Fodder plant harvested in third countries may be included in the comparative tests.

Cereals and industrial plants harvested and/or consumed green for fodder are included.

All forms of fodder maize, which is not harvested for grain (whole cob, parts of or whole plant).

Other predominantly annual fodder crops (e.g. vetches, green maize, cereals harvested and/or green, leguminous plants).

'2. Fodder plant seed which has been harvested in the Community and which is intended for certification in accordance with paragraph 1 shall:

Whereas, on the other hand, provision should be made for authorising the marketing within the Community of fodder plant seed harvested in third countries only if such seed affords the same assurances as seed officially certified, or officially approved as commercial seed, within the Community and complying with Community rules;

fodder plant seed havested in a third country and affording the same assurances as regards its characters and the arrangements for its examination, for ensuring identity, for marking and for control is equivalent in these respects to basic seed, certified seed or commercial seed harvested within the Community and complying with the provisions of this Directive.

The Member States shall provide that fodder plant seed produced directly from basic seed certified in one Member State and harvested in another Member State or in a third country is to be regarded as equivalent to certified seed of the first generation produced from basic seed harvested in the State which produced the basic seed if that seed has undergone field inspection satisfying the conditions laid down in Annex I and if official examination has shown that the conditions laid down in Annex II for certified seed are satisfied.

(c) peas, pure crops for harvesting dry for fodder

(d) field beans, pure crops for harvesting dry for fodder

Harvesting or threshing machinery, including straw or fodder balers;

'Aid for processing into dried fodder shall not be payable on fodder plants the seeds of which have been harvested';

Undertakings which process their own crops or, in the case of groups those of their members shall submit annual declarations of the areas the fodder harvest of which is to be processed to the competent authorities of the Member States by a date to be determined.

Harvesting or threshing machinery, including straw or fodder balers; grass or hay mowers

Other harvesting or threshing machinery; mowers, other than lawn mowers; straw or fodder presses:

Fodder plant seed which has been harvested in the Community and which is intended for certification in accordance with paragraph 1 shall:

Whereas, with a view to preventing the multiple receipt of aid under different schemes, provision should be made that the aid for processing into dried fodder may only be paid on whole fodder plants harvested green;

irrespective of the area on which they grow plants other than those fodder plants, do not grow those fodder plants for a duration of not more than five years on an area bigger than the area which would be needed to produce 92 tonnes of cereals per harvest,

Threshers; maize huskers and maize threshers; harvesting machinery, animal drawn; straw or fodder presses; fanning mills and similar machines for screening seeds and cereal graders

Harvesting or threshing machinery, including straw or fodder balers; grass or hay mowers; machines for cleaning, sorting or grading eggs, fruit or other agricultural produce, other than machinery of heading No 8437:

these legal or natural persons shall be buyers approved by the competent authorities of the Member States in which the fodder is harvested, under conditions laid down pursuant to the procedure provided for in Article 17.

(iii) undertakings which have obtained their supplies from natural or legal persons providing certain guarantees to be determined and having concluded contracts with producers of fodder for drying; such buyers shall be approved, on terms defined in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 18(2), by the competent authority of the Member State in which the fodder is harvested.

Harvesting and threshing machinery; straw and fodder presses; hay or grass mowers; winnowing and similar cleaning machines for seed, grain or leguminous vegetables and egg-grading and other grading machines for agricultural produce (other than those of a kind used in the bread grain milling industry falling within heading No 84.29):

The third indent of Article 2(l)(a) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 785/95 of 6 April 1995 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 603/95 on the common organisation of the market in dried fodder (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 676/1999 (4), states that whole plants, harvested green with unripe grain, of the cereals listed in point 1 of Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92 (5) and having been cultivated on land which was not declared in the area aid application with a view to the aid for arable crops provided for in that Regulation are deemed to be 'dried fodder' in order to prevent aid from being paid twice on the same parcels.

'Aid for processing into dried fodder shall not be payable on fodder plants the seeds of which have been harvested`;

Generally the whole plant, except the roots, is harvested and used for fodder.

Other arable crops intended for animal fodder, harvested green, not mentioned elsewhere.

All plants of the Brassicae family intended for fodder are included under this item, regardless whether it is the root or the stem that is harvested for fodder.

Cereals, industrial plants and other arable land crops harvested and/or consumed green for fodder are included.

Other predominantly annual fodder crops (e.g. vetches, green maize, cereals harvested and/or consumed green, leguminous plants).

Fodder plant seed which has been harvested in another Member State, and which is intended for certification in accordance with the provisions laid down in paragraph 1, shall:

such buyers shall be approved, on terms defined in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 18(2), by the competent authority of the Member State in which the fodder is harvested.

Due to exceptionally unfavourable weather conditions, producers in some Member States have been unable to harvest enough fodder of sufficiently high quality to feed their livestock throughout the winter.

Whereas a certain period must elapse between using the sludge and putting stock out to pasture or harvesting fodder crops or certain crops which are normally in direct contact with the soil and normally consumed raw;

As a result of adverse weather conditions the producers in various regions of some Member States cannot harvest notably potatoes, maize or their sugar and fodder beet before 15 January 2003, on lands to be set aside in the 2003/2004 marketing year.

Not included are legumes harvested green, e.g. alfalfa, which are to be entered under heading 145 "Other fodder plants", oil protein crops (e.g. soya), which are to be entered under heading 132 "Herbaceous oil seed crops", and leguminous crops grown as vegetables which are to be entered under headings 136, 137 or 138.

The Member States concerned shall take all necessary measures to ensure compliance with the non-lucrative nature of the use of the land set aside referred to in paragraph 1, in particular the exclusion of products harvested from such land from the arrangements for aid for dried fodder provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 603/95(5).

The Member States shall provide that fodder plant seed produced directly from basic seed certified in one Member State and harvested in another Member State or in a third country may be certified in the State which produced the basic seed if that seed has undergone field inspection satisfying the conditions laid down in Annex I and if official examination has shown that the conditions laid down in Annex II for certified seed are satisfied.

The third indent of Article 2(1)(a) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 785/95 of 6 April 1995 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 603/95 on the common organisation of the market in dried fodder(3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 676/1999(4), states that whole plants, harvested green with unripe grain, of the cereals listed in point 1 of Annex I to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92(5) and having been cultivated on land which was not declared in the area aid application with a view to the aid for arable crops provided for in that Regulation are deemed to be "dried fodder" in order to prevent aid from being paid twice on the same parcels.