European Economic and Social Committee 1 March 1978, Own-Initiative Opinion of the Economic and Social Committee on the report on starch products in the Community and the starch production refund

26. 4. 78 Official Journal of the European Communities No C101/7 6. Under the basic Regulations there are two ways in which the Commission can intervene when there are structural surpluses: (a) it can grant aid to only a part of the cultivated area listed for a given year; or (b) it can withhold aid from areas which are in their first and/or second year of production.