4a Where raw milk is sourced from less favoured areas (mountainous areas, intermediate LFAs, areas with a specific natural handicap), any transfer of volume collected to an area which is not a LFA, or between different types of LFA, must be authorised in advance by the inter-branch organisation to which the collector and producer concerned belong.

‘competent authority of destination’ means the competent authority for the area to which the shipment is planned or takes place, or in which waste is loaded prior to recovery or disposal in an area not under the national jurisdiction of any country.

30. Welcomes the Commission's intention to require that eligible intangible assets must remain within the eligible region, which will be ensured by a number of conditions laid out in paragraph 53 of the draft Regional Aid Guidelines; requests clarification, however, as to whether the transfer of an undertaking from one eligible region to another also represents a breach of the condition allowing aid intended to finance a particular investment or whether it is only the transfer of an investment to a non-eligible area that would give rise to the sanctions laid down;

29. Welcomes the Commission's intention to require that eligible intangible assets must remain within the eligible region, which will be ensured by a number of conditions laid out in paragraph 53 of the draft guidelines 2007- 2013; requests clarification, however, as to whether the transfer of an undertaking from one eligible region to another also represents a breach of the condition allowing aid intended to finance a particular investment or whether it is only the transfer of an investment to a non-eligible area that would give rise to the sanctions laid down;

14 . competent authority of destination means the competent authority, for the area to which the shipment is planned or takes place, or in which waste is loaded prior to disposal or recovery in an area not under the national jurisdiction of any country;

To facilitate the restructuring of the sector and protect the environment, the Member States may provide, among other things, for transfers without land by granting an allowance to producers who give up all or part of their production, by centralising and supervising offers and requests for transfers without land, or by determining, on the basis of objective criteria, the regions and collection areas within which transfers of reference quantities without land are authorised, with the aim of improving the structure of production.