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"BCOMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1780/97
of 15 September 1997
laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 723/97 on the
implementation of Member States’ action programmes on control of EAGGF Guarantee Section
expenditure
(OJ L 252, 16.9.1997, p. 20)
Amended by:
Official Journal
No page date
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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1780/97
of 15 September 1997
laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation
(EC) No 723/97 on the implementation of Member States’ action
programmes on control of EAGGF Guarantee Section expenditure
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 723/97 of 22 April 1997
on the implementation of Member States’ action programmes on control
of EAGGF Guarantee Section expenditure (1), and in particular Article 6
thereof,
Whereas Regulation (EC) No 723/97 provides specifically that the
Community may contribute to the financing of certain expenditure
incurred by the Member States for the initial costs of the creation or
reorganization of inspection services and the cost of training, briefing
and equipping the staff of the departments involved in the reinforcement
measures; whereas the detailed rules of application should specify what
expenditure is eligible for Community assistance in order to ensure
uniform application of the scheme;
Whereas the Commission allocates the amount of the Community
contribution each year among the Member States which so request;
whereas the conditions for making and sending this request should be
laid down;
Whereas the date of entry into force of Regulation (EC) No 723/97 was
too late in the year for the Member States to submit by 1 June 1997 their
action programmes for the 1998 year, as required by Article 2 of that
Regulation;
Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance
with the opinion of the EAGGF Committee,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
1. New action programmes referred to in Article 1 (1) of Regulation
(EC) No 723/97 shall be limited to the control measures required by
Community legislation which enters into force after 15 October 1996.
2. The initial costs referred to in Article 1 (2) of the same Regulation
shall be limited to the costs of new action programmes which are
additional to the costs which would have been incurred without the
implementation of the new action programme, shall not comprise the
emoluments of inspectors, and shall be limited to costs incurred within
three years of entry into force of the new Community obligations.
3. ‘Equipment and facilities’, as referred to in Article 1 (2) of
Regulation (EC) No 723/97, shall mean all data-processing equipment,
including software, telecommunications equipment such as telephones,
telex and fax machines and the costs of installing such equipment, not
including the usual office equipment and furniture.
4. The training and briefing costs referred to in Article 1 (2) of
Regulation (EC) No 723/97 shall comprise all actual expenditure arising
from the organization of training courses and seminars of at least one
day’ s duration, including the fees of the trainers, the travel costs of the
agents attending and the documentation provided, as well as the cost of
disclosing specialized information.!B
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Article 2
1. Member States shall submit their action programmes for the first and
second year of application of Regulation (EC) No 723/97 before the end
of the second month following the date of entry into force of this
Regulation. Only expenditure committed after 1 January 1997 shall be
eligible for part-financing by the Community. For subsequent years,
action programmes shall be submitted in accordance with the procedure
laid down in Article 2(1) and (2) of the aforementioned Regulation.
Estimates shall be drawn up in accordance with the table in the Annex.2. The Commission shall, on the basis of the information provided by
the Member States, set, in each Member State’s national currency, the
maximum amount of the Community financial contribution in the month
following that in which the general budget of the European Communities
for the financial year in question is adopted.
The Commission shall inform the Member State in question of any
expenditure which is not accepted for Community financing, and of the
reasons therefor.
3. Not later than 31 May each year, each Member State shall present the
Commission with a statement of the amounts paid out during the
previous calendar year. The maximum amount of the Community
financial contribution set as provided for in Article 4(2) of the
abovementioned Regulation shall apply to this expenditure, limited to
the amounts presented in the action programmes and not considered
ineligible by the Commission. However, for 1997, the final date for
implementation of expenditure shall be 31 August 1998, and the
statement of amounts paid out shall be sent to the Commission to reach it
by 31 October 1998.
This statement shall be drawn up in accordance with the table in the
Annex.
Article 3
The maximum amount set as provided for in Article 4(2) of Regulation
(EC) No 723/97, as reduced by any unused amount paid in respect of the
previous year but one, shall be deemed to be expenditure as referred to in
Article 7 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 296/96 under the month in
which it is set by the Commission.
Article 3a
For the last two years of application of this regulation, the unused amount
shall be credited to the appropriate budget heading of the EAGGF under
expenditure for June of the financial year following the year of
implementation.
Article 4
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its
publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities .
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in
all Member States.!B
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ANNEX
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