Honey: measures to improve the production and marketing

OBJECTIVE: to postpone the time limit laid down by Regulation (EC) 1221/97 laying down general rules for the application of measures to improve the production and marketing of honey. COMMUNITY MEASURE: Council Regulation (EC) 2070/98. SUBSTANCE: The regulation states that expenditure on the measures taken under the annual national programmes must be made by the Member States by 15 October each year. However, in order to avoid too great a shortening of the national programmes in the first year, the time limit for making payments has been postponed to 31 January 1999. ENTRY INTO FORCE: 30/9/1998. �