47The Commission does not share the opinion of the Greek Government that a double financial correction has been made with respect to the same harvests and for the same reasons. According to the Commission, the previous corrections were founded on the risk of losses for the EAGGF as a result of a series of shortcomings discovered in the system of payment and supervision in Greece, on the basis of Document No VI/5330/97. Subsequently, the Commission staff received from the Hellenic Republic, in application of Commission Regulation (EC) No 658/96 of 9 April 1996 on certain conditions for granting compensatory payments under the support system for producers of certain arable crops (OJ 1996 L 91, p. 46) and of Annex VIII to that regulation, information on the harvests in 1994 and 1996, which enabled them to compare the eligible areas with the payments made and to establish that there were large differences and real losses for the EAGGF. The Commission maintains that the new correction is therefore based on the discovery of certain discrepancies that led to irregular expenditure.
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