S.L. 146.4 Art. 8Payment of aid.

(1) The aid shall be paid by the Director to the individual producer or producer organisation signing the contract as soon as the aid application has been checked and it is established that the tomatoes covered by such application have been delivered and accepted for processing, on the basis, in particular, of the checks provided for in regulation 12(1)(a) and in regulation 13.

(2) Where aid is paid to a producer organisation, such producer organisation shall pay in full the amounts received, by cheque or bank transfer, to its members within fifteen working days following receipt of such aid.

(3) Where a producer organisation is wholly or partly made up of members which are themselves organisations with legal personality made up of individual members, payments as provided for in subregulation (2) shall be paid by such member organisations to the individual members within fifteen working days.

(4) No aid shall be granted on quantities in respect of which the necessary checks on entitlement to the aid have not been conducted.

(5) Where applicable, the aid shall be paid to individual producers or producer organisations by not later than sixty days after the date on which the application, including all the information required under regulation 6, is received and approved by the Director.