(b)allowing provisions in the statutes of an SCE adopted by a Member State in execution of authorisations given to the Member States by this Regulation or laws adopted to ensure the effective application of this Regulation with regard to the SCE which deviate from, or are complementary to, these laws, even when such provisions would not be authorised in the statutes of a cooperative having its registered office in the Member State.

1. An SCE shall hold a general meeting at least once each calendar year, within six months of the end of its financial year, unless the law of the Member State in which the SCE's registered office is situated applicable to cooperatives carrying on the same type of activity as the SCE provides for more frequent meetings.

(b) allowing provisions in the statutes of an SCE adopted by a Member State in execution of authorisations given to the Member States by this Regulation or laws adopted to ensure the effective application of this Regulation with regard to the SCE which deviate from, or are complementary to, these laws, even when such provisions would not be authorised in the statutes of a cooperative having its registered office in the Member State.

Within 40 working days of receipt by the first processors, the latter shall in turn inform their competent authorities of the names and addresses of the collectors who delivered the raw materials to them, the quantities and type thereof and the dates of delivery.

(3) Whereas, having regard to the arrangements for the payment of the aid for the cultivation of dried grapes referred to in Article 7 of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 and the production aid for dried figs referred to in Article 2 of that Regulation, access to the storage arrangements should be restricted to producer organisations and, in the case of unprocessed dried grapes, to processors, given that the marketing and/or storage of these unprocessed products are undertaken by producer organisations and processors;

(6) Whereas, in order to adapt the quality of supply to demand, payment of the aid should be made conditional on obtaining a product meeting minimum quality characteristics; whereas, as regards the processed product, for the sake of simplification, the minimum characteristics and tolerances allowed should be those contained in the UN/ECE standard recommended by the Working Party on standardisation of perishable produce and quality development of the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe; whereas, to ensure that a quality product is obtained, to be registered in the database, producers and processors should be required to have an adequate infrastructure enabling them to obtain, respectively, a raw material and a finished product of ...[+++] the desired quality; whereas, to preserve the quality of the raw material and check its destination, the producer should be required to deliver the unprocessed dried grapes to the processor within a certain time limit;