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            COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2003/2006

of 21 December 2006         

laying down detailed rules for the financing by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) of expenditure relating to the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 of 17 December 1999 on the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products (1), and in particular Article 35(3) thereof,

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Subject matter

This Regulation lays down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 as regards the financing by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) of expenditure incurred by Member States under the common organisation of the markets in fishery and aquaculture products.

Article 2

Definitions

For the purposes of this Regulation the following definition shall apply:

               ‘Expenditure’ means expenditure incurred by the Member States as referred to in Article 35(1) of Regulation (EC) No 104/2000.

Article 3

Competent authority

Each Member State shall designate its competent authority for the implementation of this Regulation and notify it to the Commission.

Article 4

Declarations of expenditure

1.   Each Member State shall draw up a declaration of expenditure in accordance with the model in the Annex. The declaration of expenditure shall consist of a statement, broken down according to the nomenclature of the budget of the European Communities and by type of expenditure on the basis of a detailed nomenclature made available to the Member States. It shall cover:

2.   Each Member State shall collect all the information relevant to the declaration of expenditure.

3.   The reference periods shall be the six-month periods from 16 October until 15 April and from 16 April until 15 October.

4.   The declaration of expenditure may incorporate corrections to the amounts declared for previous reference periods.

5.   The competent authorities of the Member States shall submit their declaration of expenditure together with the information, referred to in paragraph 2, to the Commission electronically, respectively on 10 May and 10 November at the latest.

Article 5

Biannual payments

1.   The appropriations necessary to finance the expenditure shall be made available to Member States by the Commission in the form of biannual reimbursements, (hereinafter referred to as ‘biannual payments’).

The amounts of the biannual payments shall be fixed in the basis of the declaration of expenditure submitted by the Member States in accordance with Article 4.

2.   Biannual payments shall be made to each Member State within 60 days after the complete declaration of expenditure by the Member State has been received by the Commission. The declaration shall be deemed complete if the Commission does not request further information within 30 days from receipt of declaration.

3.   Until they receive transfer of the biannual payments from the Commission, the Member States shall mobilise the resources required to undertake expenditure.

Article 6

Exchange rates to be applied

The exchange rate to be used by Member States for their declaration of expenditure shall be the rate most recently fixed by the European Central Bank (ECB) prior to the corresponding operative events as defined in Regulation (EC) No 1925/2000.

Article 7

Entry into force and application

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 16 October 2006.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 21 December 2006.

For the Commission

Joe BORG            

Member of the Commission

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(1)OJ L 17, 21.1.2000, p. 22. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1759/2006 (OJ L 335, 1.12.2006, p. 3).

(2)OJ L 209, 11.8.2005, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 320/2006 (OJ L 58, 28.2.2006, p. 42).

(3)OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1.

(4)OJ L 136, 31.5.1999, p. 1.

(5)OJ L 292, 15.11.1996, p. 2.

(6)OJ L 312, 23.12.1995, p. 1.

(7)OJ L 230, 12.9.2000, p. 7.

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ANNEX

DECLARATION OF EXPENDITURE

Data broken down according to the nomenclature of the budget of the European Communities and by type of expenditure

Content of declaration of expenditure to be transmitted to the Commission by electronic mail

Header of the declaration

The header of the declaration comprises:

Body of the declaration

The body of the declaration comprises the following for each sub-item of the EAGF nomenclature:

End section

The following appears after the list of all the sub-items:

Syntax of the message

<I>[IDENTIFICATION]

<C>001<V>[PERIOD]

<C>011<V>[LANGUAGE]

<C>002<V>[SUBITEM]

<C>012<V>[DESCRIPTION]

<C>003<V>[AMOUNT]/[AMOUNT CUMUL]

<...>

<...>

<C>002<V>[SUBITEM]

<C>012<V>[DESCRIPTION]

<C>003<V>[AMOUNT]/[AMOUNT CUMUL]

<C>004<V>[AMOUNT TOT]/[AMOUNT CUMUL TOT]

<C>006<V>[COMMENT]

Description of the fields

Example

<I>FISHCYP

<C>001<V>200605

<C>011<V>EN

<C>002<V>110201002610025

<C>012<V>Private storage – aid...

<C>003<V>10000,00/10000,00

<C>002<V>110201002610033

<C>012<V>Compensation payments – operational programmes...

<C>003<V>32417,34/32417,34

<...>

<...>

<...>

<C>002<V>110201002610041

<C>012<V>Compensation payments – tuna...

<C>003<V>10000,00/10000,00

<C>004<V>478378,38/478378,38

<C>006<V>No Comment

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