1999/745/EC: Commission Decision of 4 November 1999 concerning the grant of Community assistance for evaluation of Community structural interventions and modifying the relevant Commission Decision approving programming documents in the different Member States (with the exception of Objective 1 and 6 regions) in respect of Objective 5(a), covering the period between 1994 and 1999 (notified under document number C(1999) 3124) (Only the Spanish, Danish, German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Finnish and Swedish texts are authentic)
Date: 1999-11-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU aid, Structural Funds, agricultural product, agro-industry, forest, marketing

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 4 November 1999

concerning the grant of Community assistance for evaluation of Community structural interven-
tions and modifying the relevant Commission Decision approving programming documents in the
different Member States (with the exception of Objective 1 and 6 regions) in respect of Objective
5(a), covering the period between 1994 and 1999

(Only the Spanish, Danish, German, English, French, Italian, Dutch, Finnish and Swedish texts are authentic)

(notified under document number C(1999) 3124)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

(1999/745/EC)

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88 of 19
December 1988 laying down provisions for implementing
Regulation (EEC) No 2052/88 as regards coordination of the
activities of the different Structural Funds between themselves
and with the operations of the European Investment Bank and
the other existing financial instruments (1), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 3193/94 (2), and in particular the third
subparagraph of Article 25(5) thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 951/97 of 20
May 1997, on improving the processing and marketing condi-
tions for agricultural products (3) and in particular Article 15(1)
thereof,

Whereas:

Article 6(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2052/88 in conjunc-
tion with Article 26 of Regulation (EEC) No 4253/88
requires the evaluation of Community structural opera-
tions in order to gauge their effectiveness and whereas
the latter Article sets out that evaluations are the joint
responsibility of the Member State and the Commission;
Article 5(2)(e) of Regulation (EEC) No 2052/88 defines
support for technical assistance, including the measures
to evaluate operations, as a form of financial assistance
which may be provided;

(4)

contrary to the other structural interventions, the initial
programming of measures under Regulation (EC) No
951/97, outside of Objective 1 and 6 regions, did not
foresee support for technical assistance; the requirement
to carry out an ex-post evaluation of the previous period
1991 to 1993 as well as a mid-term and ex-post evalu-
ation of the ongoing period 1994 to 1999 will cause
additional costs to be borne by Member States;

(1)

(2)

Council Regulation (EC) No 867/90 (4) extends the
common measure to forestry products;

(5)

for Community structural

the Commission approved by Decisions referred to in
the attached table (Annex I) the programming docu-
ments
for
improving the processing and marketing conditions for
agricultural and forestry products in Member States in
respect of Objective 5(a), outside Objective 1 and 6
regions, covering the period between 1994 and 1999;

interventions

(1) OJ L 374, 31.12.1988, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 337, 24.12.1994, p. 11.
(3) OJ L 142, 2.6.1997, p. 22.
(4) OJ L 91, 6.4.1990, p. 7.

(6)

on the occasion of the discussion of the evaluation of
measures under Regulation (EC) No 951/97 and Regula-
tion (EEC) No 867/90 in the meeting of the Committee
on Agricultural Structures and Rural Development of 28
January 1997, Member States requested the expenditure
the
for evaluation to be co-financed by the Funds;
Commission considers this request justified;

according to the second paragraph of Article 1 of
Commission Decision 98/524/EC, of 28 July 1998,
amending Decision 94/279/EC on the indicative alloca-
commitment
tion

by Member

States

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appropriations from the Structural Funds for the agricul-
tural part of Objective 5a except for those fields covered
by Objective 1 as defined in Council Regulation (EEC)
No 2052/88 (1) for the period 1994 to 1999, an amount
of ECU 4 million from EAGGF (Guidance Section) was
set aside to allow the support for technical assistance for
the ex-post evaluation of the period 1991 to 1993, the
mid-term review and the ex-post evaluation of
the
period 1994 to 1999 from commitment appropriations
available for the agricultural part of Objective 5a except
for those fields covered by Objective 1; this aforemen-
tioned Article established that
the
support for evaluation shall be defined in a separate
Commission decision; the present Decision intends to
allocate the amount of EUR 4 million to the different
programmes of Member States; the individual amounts
to be allocated to Member States' programmes are calcu-
lated taking into account the weightings upon which the
allocation of funds to Member States were based;

the modalities of

evaluation activities on Community structural measures
for improving the processing and marketing conditions
for agricultural and forestry products which benefited
from other Community financial assistance are not
eligible for support under the present decision;

the amounts subject to a distribution in the present
decision form part of
the indicative allocation by
Member States of the commitment appropriations from
the Structural Funds for the agricultural part of Objec-
tive 5a except for those fields covered by Objective 1 as
defined in Regulation (EEC) No 2052/88 for the period
1994 to 1999, the additional financial resources allo-
cated to Member States but not used for evaluation
purposes can be used by Member States to reinforce the
operational actions in the relevant programmes;

the second subparagraph of Article 2 of Commission
Regulation (EEC) No 1866/90 of 2 July 1990 on
arrangements for using the ecu for the purposes of the
budgetary management of the Structural Funds (2), as
amended by Regulation (EC) No 2745/94 (3), provides
that in Commission decisions approving single program-
the Community assistance decided
ming documents,
upon for the entire period and the annual breakdown
thereof are to be set out in ecus, at prices for the year in
which the decision is taken, and are to be subject to
indexation; whereas according to Article 2 of Council
Regulation (EC) No 1103/97 of 17 June 1997 on certain
provisions relating to the introduction of the euro (4),
every reference to the ecu in a legal instrument shall be
replaced by a reference to the euro at the rate of one
euro to one ecu;

(7)

(8)

(9)

(10)

the measures provided for in this Decision are in accord-
ance with the opinion of the Committee on Agricultural
Structures and Rural Development,

(1) OJ L 233, 20.8.1998, p. 32.
(2) OJ L 170, 3.7.1990, p. 36.
(3) OJ L 290, 11.11.1994, p. 4.
(4) OJ L 162, 19.6.1997, p. 1.

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Support from the EAGGF (Guidance Section) is granted in the
form of technical assistance for the mid-term review and the
ex-post evaluation for the period 1994 to 1999 relating to
Community structural measures for improving the processing
and marketing conditions for agricultural and forestry products
in the Member States (with the exception of Objective 1 and 6
regions), in respect of Objective 5(a), as well as for the ex-post
evaluation for the period 1991 to 1993, relating to the above-
mentioned Community structural measures.

Article 2

Aid from the EAGGF may not exceed 50 % of the eligible cost
of the different evaluation actions.

Eligible expenditure in respect of the evaluation actions referred
to in Article 1 are limited to additional expenditure, other than
costs incurred by public administration and including salaries
of national and local
(statutory) civil servants employed on
day-to-day management, monitoring and control tasks.

Article 3

the Commission Decisions referred to in the
Article 2 of
attached table (Annex I) is modified by adding the following
subparagraph:

‘The ex-post evaluation of the period 1991 to 1993, the mid-
term review and the ex-post evaluation of the period 1994 to
1999 are included for joint action.’

Article 4

The maximum amounts indicated in Article 3 of the Commis-
sion Decisions referred to in the attached table (Annex I) are
replaced by the amounts indicated in column J of the same
table.

In the context of the modification of the relevant financial
plans,
the assistance from the EAGGF (Guidance Section)
granted in respect of the evaluation actions mentioned under
Article 1 of the present Commission Decision is attributed as a
separate item in total to the year 1999 and added to the
indicative expenditure expected in regions outside Objectives 1,
6 and 5(b).

Article 5

The financial plans annexed to the Commission Decisions
referred to in the attached table (Annex I) are replaced by
revised plans which take account of the amendments subject to
the present Decision. Member States shall submit
to the
Commission these revised plans at the latest one month after
the approval of the present Decision.

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The additional point on evaluation, which is set out in Annex II to the present Decision, is included in the
programming documents which were approved and amended by the Commission Decisions referred to in
the attached table (Annex I).

Article 6

This Decision is addressed to the following Member States:

Article 7

The Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Kingdom of
Spain, the French Republic, the Italian Republic, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, the Kingdom of the
Netherlands, the Republic of Austria, the Republic of Finland, the Kingdom of Sweden and the United
Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Done at Brussels, 4 November 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 298/35

ANNEX II

EVALUATION

— Period covered

Evaluation operations covered by this programming document will cover:

— the ex-post evaluation of the 1991 to 1993 programming period;

— the mid-term evaluation after the third year of implementation of the present programme and

— the ex-post evaluation of the present programming period.

— Guidelines for evaluation

Apart from the conditions established in the present programme under the chapter on its implementation, namely in
the point concerning principles and arrangements governing the monitoring, interim assessment and ex-post evalu-
ation, Member States are required to base their evaluation on the guidelines set out in Commission Doc. VI/3778/97,
Rev.1 and on probable future improvements of these guidelines (see Doc. VI/8879/99).