[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 7, Volume 10]
[Revised as of January 1, 2007]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 7CFR1425.3]

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                          TITLE 7--AGRICULTURE
 
  CHAPTER XIV--COMMODITY CREDIT CORPORATION, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 1425_COOPERATIVE MARKETING ASSOCIATIONS--Table of Contents
 
Sec.  1425.3  Definitions.

    The definitions set forth in this section shall be applicable for 
all purposes of program administration. The terms defined in parts 718 
of this title and parts 1421 and 1427 of this chapter shall also be 
applicable, except where those definitions conflict with the definitions 
in this section.
    Active member is a member who has utilized the services offered by a 
CMA in one of the three preceding CMA fiscal years or such shorter 
period as may be provided in the CMA's articles of incorporation or 
bylaws.
    Approved cooperative marketing association (CMA) is a cooperative 
approved by CCC to participate in loan and LDP programs for any 
authorized commodity.
    Authorized commodity is a commodity for which a CMA is approved by 
CCC to obtain marketing assistance loans or Loan deficiency payments.
    Cooperative is a business owned and controlled by the producers who 
use its services and operated under generally accepted cooperative 
principles.
    Eligible commodity is a commodity which meets the commodity's 
eligibility requirements set forth in chapter XIV of this title, and is 
produced and delivered to the CMA from a producer eligible for loan or 
LDP.
    Loan pool is any CMA pool containing commodities used by the CMA to 
obtain either loans or LDP's.
    Market gain is the sum of loan rate, minus the repayment rate on 
loans repaid with less than the loan rate, plus for LDP's, the same 
rate, times the quantity of commodity. Market gains cannot exceed the 
producer's applicable payment limitation as set out in part 1400 of this 
chapter.
    Member is a producer who:
    (a) Has fully paid for membership stock or earned equity credits in 
the CMA;
    (b) Has executed a uniform marketing agreement with the CMA; and
    (c) Is entitled to all CMA membership rights.

[63 FR 17312, Apr. 9, 1998, as amended at 67 FR 64458, Oct. 18, 2002]