Commission Regulation (EC) No 1460/98 of 8 July 1998 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1170/93 laying down certain detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2158/92 on protection of the Community's forests against fire
Date: 1998-07-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU financing, administrative formalities, fire, fire protection, forest, forest conservation

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1460/98

of 8 July 1998

amending Regulation (EEC) No 1170/93 laying down certain detailed rules for the
application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 2158/92 on protection of the
Community’s forests against fire

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2158/92
of 23 July 1992 on protection of the Community’s forests
against fire (1), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 308/
97 (2), and in particular Article 4(4) thereof,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EEC) No
1170/93 of 13 May 1993 laying down certain detailed
rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No
2158/92 on protection of the Community’s forests against
fire (3),

Whereas provision should be made to facilitate the trans-
mission and analysis of the state of progress of projects
approved by the Commission pursuant to Article 4 of that
Regulation;

Whereas the time limits for carrying out the work covered
by the grant of Community financial assistance to
projects approved by the Commission pursuant to Article
4 of Regulation (EEC) No 2158/92 are detailed in the
Commission’s approval decision;

Whereas the conditions governing amendments to those
time limits should be placed in a Regulation;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Forestry
Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 1170/93 is hereby
replaced by the following:

‘Article 3

projects approved pursuant to Article 4 of Regulation
(EEC) No 2158/92.

That document shall indicate the list of projects in
respect of which the beneficiaries cannot comply with
the time limits for carrying out work as specified in
the approval decisions. The list may be accompanied
by duly justified requests to extend those time limits.

The Commission may grant the requested extensions
under certain circumstances. To be admissible, the
extension requests must satisfy the following condi-
tions:

(cid:190) they must be received by the Commission before
the planned date for completion of the work as
specified in the approval decision,

(cid:190) they must guarantee that

the work will be
completed within the new time limit requested,

(cid:190) the extension requested may not exceed 18

months,

(cid:190) only one extension will be granted per project,

(cid:190) they shall concern only delays in carrying out
work due to weather conditions or to circum-
stances demonstrably wholly beyond the control
of the beneficiary. They may under no circum-
stances be the result of improper or inadequate
planning at the time the project was presented to
the Commission, whether the planning problem
be technical, administrative or financial or the
result of improper project management.

If requests complying with the above conditions are
not presented, or if the Commission believes that the
the aid for such
reasons supplied are inadequate,
projects shall be reduced or withdrawn.'

The departments or agencies shall transmit to the
Commission before 1 November each year a docu-
ment describing the state of progress of work on

Article 2

(1) OJ L 217, 31. 7. 1992, p. 3.
(2) OJ L 51, 21. 2. 1997, p. 11.
(3) OJ L 118, 14. 5. 1993, p. 23.

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

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

Done at Brussels, 8 July 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission