where farmers are able to give relevant and objective reasons for exchanging land ineligible for arable crops area payment for eligible land on their holdings, Member States shall check that there are no valid reasons for refusing such exchanges, in particular from the viewpoint of environmental risks, and shall provide proof in a plan submitted to the Commission that the total amount of eligible land remains unchanged; under no circumstances may exchanges result in any increase in the total area of eligible arable land on the holdin ...[+++]g; the Member States shall provide for a system for the prior notification and approval of such exchanges.

If the quantity released for free circulation is smaller than the quantity indicated in boxes 17 and 18 of the import licence, the security relating to the part not released shall be forfeited, and the licence concerned may not be used to import any further quantity.

Where the quantity used is less than 95 % of the quantity for which the advance was paid, the processor shall continue to be entitled to aid for the quantity actually processed.

Member States may also depart from the provisions of the first subparagraph under certain specific circumstances relating to one or other form of public intervention where such intervention results in a farmer growing crops on land previously regarded as ineligible in order to continue his normal agricultural activity and the intervention in question means that land originally eligible ceases to be so with the result that the total amount of eligible land is not increased significantly.

Whereas Article 9 of Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92 defines the land eligible for compensatory payments; whereas, in order to take account of certain specific situations where its provisions could have effects which are unduly restrictive, the said Article allows certain derogations which must be administered by the Member States in accordance with their individual situations; whereas, however, the application of those derogations may undermine the effectiveness of the arrangements laid down by Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92; whereas, to reduce that risk, suitable measures should be laid down in order that, depending on the individual case, ...[+++] the total area eligible can be kept at the existing level or any appreciable increase avoided;

2. If the quantity stored unboned, or, if cut or boned, the quantity of unboned meat employed, is less than the quantity for which the contract was concluded and: