EAGGF Guarantee section: measures in respect of certains beneficiaries of operations financed by the fund

The purpose of this proposal is to introduce a Community system which allows the national authorities of all the Member States to identify operators guilty or against whom there are grounds for suspecting that they are guilty, deliberately or as the result of gross negligence, of defrauding the Community budget in connexion with tendering procedures, export refunds and sales at reduced prices of intervention products. According to the gravity of the charges and whether or not they are established or alleged, the national authorities must apply the appropriate sanctions from among a series of measures ranging from reinforced checking, suspension of payment of amounts relating to current operations and, where appropriate, release of the guarantee relating thereto, to the exclusion of the operators involved from the operations in question.�