Commission Regulation (EC) No 807/1999 of 16 April 1999 providing for transitional measures for the financing of inspections and controls in accordance with Directive 85/73/EEC following the introduction of the euro
Date: 1999-04-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: euro, exchange rate, health control, national currency, transitional period (EU), veterinary inspection

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Official Journal of the European Communities

17. 4. 1999

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 807/1999

of 16 April 1999

providing for transitional measures for the financing of inspections and controls
in accordance with Directive 85/73/EEC following the introduction of the euro

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2799/98 of
15 December 1998 establishing agrimonetary arrange-
ments for the euro (1), and in particular Article 10 thereof,

Whereas Article 7 of Council Directive 85/73/EEC of 29
January 1985 on the financing of veterinary inspections
and controls covered by Directives 89/662/EEC, 90/
last
425/EEC, 90/675/EEC and 91/496/EEC (2),
amended by Directive 97/79/EC (3), stipulates that the
rates to be used for the conversion into national curren-
cies of the amounts in ecus provided for in that Directive
are to be those published on the first working day of
September each year in the ‘C' series of the Official
Journal of the European Communities and that those
rates are to apply from 1 January of the following year;

as

Whereas the provisions of Article 7 of Directive 85/
73/EEC will not be in line with Regulations (EC) No
974/98 and No 2799/98 at least for a transitional period
corresponding to 1999; whereas provision must be made
for a derogation from those Regulations with a view to a
smooth changeover;

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In the Member States which have adopted the single
1.
currency, notwithstanding Article 7 of Directive 85/
73/EEC,
in that
Directive shall be converted into national currency using
the exchange rates fixed irrevocably in Regulation (EC)
No 2866/98.

in euro provided for

the amounts

Whereas Council Regulation (EC) No 974/98 of 3 May
1998 on the introduction of the euro (4) provides that as
from 1 January 1999 the currency of the Member States
participating in economic and monetary union is the
euro; whereas the conversion rates between the euro and
the currencies of the Member States adopting the euro are
fixed in Council Regulation (EC) No 2866/98 (5);

2.
In the Member States which have not adopted the
single currency, notwithstanding Article 2(2) of Regula-
tion (EC) No 2799/98, the amounts in euro provided for
in Directive 85/73/EEC and applied during 1999 shall be
converted into national currency using the rates published
in the ‘C' series of
the first
working day of September 1998.

the Official Journal of

Whereas, in accordance with Article 2 of Regulation (EC)
No 2799/98, prices and amounts fixed in legal instru-
ments relating to the common agricultural policy are to
be expressed in euro; whereas such prices and amounts
are granted or collected in euro in the participating
Member States; whereas they are to be converted into the
national currencies of the other Member States by means
of the relevant exchange rates and granted or collected in
their national currencies;

(1) OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 32, 5.2.1985, p. 14.
(3) OJ L 24, 30.1.1998, p. 31.
(4) OJ L 139, 11.5.1998, p. 1.
(5) OJ L 359, 31.12.1998, p. 1.

Article 2

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

the request of

the party concerned,

It shall apply with effect from 1 January 1999. However,
at
the provisions
covered by the derogation provided for in Article 1(1)
shall apply to all transactions carried out in the period
between the date of entry into application and the date of
entry into force of this Regulation.

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

Done at Brussels, 16 April 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission