Traduction de «produttori svizzeri di latte » (Italien → Anglais) :

Federation of Swiss Milk Producers [ SMP ]

Union of milk producer associations

the quantity of cow's milk delivered by the producer in the form of milk in the 12 months preceding 1 April of each year (‘reference period’) in excess of the reference quantity for milk deliveries during that period notified to the producer by FranceAgriMer (in that case, FranceAgriMer informs each purchaser to whom the producer has delivered milk of the amount of tax due and the milk purchaser pays to FranceAgriMer, within one month of that notification, the revenue from the tax levied on producers delivering milk to it),

For example, under Article 4 of the Decree of 17 August 2010 on levying a tax on milk purchasers and producers who have exceeded their individual delivery quota for the 2009-2010 marketing year, and within the limits of what is available at national level at the end of the 2009-2010 marketing year, FranceAgriMer reimburses to purchasers part of the tax payable by producers delivering milk to them, according to the following arrangements:

As regards the question of knowing whether the beneficiary of the aid offers a counterpart (point 144(f) of the 2007-2013 Guidelines), the French authorities are examining the case of producers who market their milk through deliveries to a collector and that of producers who market their milk directly to consumers, as direct sales.

As regards the Commission's argument that the scope for public authorities to adjust refunds seems to point to discretionary treatment of economic operators that goes beyond the simple management of tax revenue by reference to objective criteria, which, in the Court of Justice's view, may mean that the individual application of a general measure takes on the features of a selective measure , the French authorities underline that a general measure covering all producers was introduced starting in the 2009-2010 marketing year in view of the end of the milk quota system and that the refund threshold of 1 % or 2 % is not discriminatory, beca ...[+++]use it applies to all milk producers on the basis of the quantity in excess of the individual quota, which de facto means a reduction of the tax applied.