Olive oil: aid scheme. Special report 11/2000 Court of Auditors

The Council has taken note of Special Report No 11/2000 of the Court of Auditors on the support scheme for olive oil, and has adopted the following conclusions: The Council with regard to production aid: - suggests that the production aid control measures be assessed, since the amendments introduced in 1998, before being revised in the context of the future reform; - requests that the geographical information system be established quickly and that the yield analysis be continued and refined; - requests the Commission to carry out a detailed and precise evaluation of the results of the promotional campaigns; - notes the Commission's intention to submit reform proposals between now and the end of 2000 and its desire to prevent a structural imbalance of the market. With regard to previous consumption aid: - trusts that the initiatives taken by the Commission will enable the amounts yet to be recovered in all the agricultural sectors concerned to be balanced as quickly as possible; - emphasises that Member States must take the same measures to protect the Community's financial interests as they do to protect their own. �