Commission Regulation (EC) No 583/1999 of 17 March 1999 on the maximum amount of the Community's financial contribution to be paid to the Member States concerned in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 723/97
Date: 1999-03-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EAGGF Guarantee Section, EU financing, action programme, agricultural expenditure, member country

L 72/28

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Official Journal of the European Communities

18. 3. 1999

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 583/1999

of 17 March 1999

on the maximum amount of the Community’s 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 Article 4(2)
thereof,
Whereas the Fund Committee has been consulted;
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
Committee, set
the
Community’s 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
Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1780/97 (2),

the maximum annual amount of

laying down the rules of application of Regulation (EC)
No 723/97, as last amended by the Regulation (EC) No
1890/98 (3);
the Member States concerned have
supplied the relevant information to the Commission for
the year 1999,

that

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The maximum amount of
the Community’s financial
contribution towards the costs incurred by the Member
States concerned in implementing action programmes on
control of EAGGF Guarantee Section expenditure for
1999, provided for by Council Regulation (EC) No 723/97
is set out in the Annex of this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh 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.

Done at Brussels, 17 March 1999.

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.

(3) OJ L 245, 4. 9. 1998, p. 28.

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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ANNEX

Maximum amount of the Community’s financial contribution for 1999, within the framework of
Regulation (EC) No 723/97

Member States

Community
co-financing
(1)

Exchange rate

(2)

Community
co-financing
(3)

National currency

January 1999

Euro

Belgium

Germany

Greece

Spain

France

Ireland

Italy

Luxembourg

Netherlands

Portugal

Austria

Finland

BEF 29 220 000

DEM 4 065 138

GRD 17 000 000

ESP 535 627 432

FRF 17 836 433

IEP 763 641

40,3399

1,95583

329,689

166,386

6,55957

0,787564

ITL 5 736 728 625

1936,27

LUF 7 168 000

NLG 331 619

PTE 294 517 958

ATS 2 336 500

FIM 1 830 500

40,3399

2,20371

200,482

13,7603

5,94573

724 345

2 078 472

51 564

3 219 186

2 719 147

969 624

2 962 773

177 690

150 482

1 469 049

169 800

307 868

Total

—

—

15 000 000