Commission Regulation (EC) No 1442/98 of 6 July 1998 on the maximum amount of the Community financial contribution to be paid to the Member States concerned in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 723/97
Date: 1998-07-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Community budget, EAGGF Guarantee Section, EU Member State, action programme, agricultural expenditure, aid to agriculture

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1442/98

of 6 July 1998

on the maximum amount of the Community financial contribution to be paid to
the Member States concerned in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No
723/97

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 Articles 1 and 4
thereof,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1780/
97 (2) laying down the rules of application for Regulation
(EC) No 723/97, and in particular Article 3 thereof,

Whereas Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 723/97 provides
that the Community shall contribute towards the costs
incurred by Member States in implementing new action
programmes, arising out of new Community obligations;
whereas Article 4(2) of the same Regulation provides that
consulting the Fund
the Commission shall,
after
the
Committee, set
Community financial contribution having regard to the
appropriations and on the basis of
the information
supplied by the Member States concerned; whereas the
amount in question shall be granted in accordance with

the maximum annual amount of

Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1780/97; whereas the
Member States concerned have supplied the relevant
information to the Commission for the year 1998;

Whereas the Fund Committee has been consulted on the
amounts set out in the Annex to this Regulation,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The maximum amount of
the Community financial
contribution in national currencies towards the costs
incurred by the Member States concerned in imple-
menting action programmes on control of EAGGF Guar-
antee Section expenditure for 1998, provided for by Regu-
lation (EC) No 723/97 is set out in the Annex to this
Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of 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.

Done at Brussels, 6 July 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 108, 25. 4. 1997, p. 6.
(2) OJ L 252, 16. 9. 1997, p. 20.

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ANNEX

Maximum amount of Community financial contribution for 1998 within the framework of
Regulation (EC) No 723/97

Member State

Belgium

Germany

Greece

Spain

France

Ireland

Italy

Luxembourg

Netherlands

United Kingdom

Austria

Finland

Sweden

Community contribution
in national currency

BEF

DEM

20 329 594

3 061 159

GRD 426 979 666

ESP

FRF

IEP

ITL

LUF

NLG

GBP

ATS

FIM

SEK

442 328 190

14 308 361

616 127

5 595 886 420

3 375 000

1 311 156

1 021 615

8 802 000

977 500

825 000