Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 3508/92 establishing an integrated administration and control system for certain Community aid schemes
Date: 1999-11-15
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU aid, aid system, aid to agriculture, area of holding, management information system

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Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 3508/92 establishing an
integrated administration and control system for certain Community aid schemes

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COM(1999) 517 final (cid:151) 1999/0207(CNS)

(Submitted by the Commission on 15 November 1999)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 37 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

largely been completed,

(5) Now that the introductory phase of the integrated system
has
the Commission should
continue to be kept informed about the implementation
and effectiveness of the integrated system in the Member
States;

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,

Regulation (EEC) No 3508/92 is amended as follows:

Whereas:

1. Article 1 is amended as follows:

(a) Paragraphs 1 and 2 are replaced by the following:

(1) The decisions on the reform of the common agricultural
policy require adjustments to be made to the integrated
administration and control system.

(2) The application of the integrated management and control
system in those areas to which it applies has led to
significant progress in reducing the risk to the EAGGF
Guarantee Section from agricultural expenditure. It should
be laid down that the Member States are to design their
own systems, compatible with the essential elements of
for the application of other Community area aid
IACS,
schemes. The Commission should be allowed to extend
the integrated system to other Community schemes;

(3) In view of the difficulties encountered when carrying out
administrative checks on areas declared, and in particular
the costs and time involved in clearing up anomalies in
declarations, experience in a number of Member States
identification system
which have created a special parcel
and progress in digital orthophotography and geographical
information systems,
the introduction of computerised
geographical information system techniques for the identi-
fication of agricultural parcels should be foreseen;

(EEC) No

3508/92 (1)

(4) Since the measures for the implementation of Council
are management
Regulation
measures within the meaning of Article 2 of Council
Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the
procedures
implementing powers
conferred on the Commission (2), they should be adopted
by use of
the management procedure provided for in
Article 4 of that Decision. Regulation (EEC) No 3508/92
should therefore be amended accordingly;

the exercise of

for

(1) OJ L 355, 5.12.1992, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 184, 17.7.1999, p. 23.

Each Member State shall set up an integrated
hereinafter

(cid:145)1.
administration
referred to as the (cid:147)integrated system(cid:148), applying:

system,

control

and

(a) in the crop sector:

(i) to the support system for producers of certain
arable crops established by Council Regulation
(EC) No 1251/1999 (3),

(ii) to the aid scheme for rice producers estab-
lished by Article 6 of Council Regulation (EC)
No 3072/95 (4),

(iii) to the specific measure in respect of certain
grain legumes introduced by Council Regu-
lation (EC) No 1577/96 (5),

(b) in the livestock sector

(i) to the premium and payment arrangements for
beef and veal producers established by Chapter 1
of Title
I of Council Regulation (EC) No
1254/1999 (6),

(ii) to the premium arrangements for sheepmeat
by

and
introduced
Council Regulation (EC) No 2467/98 (7),

producers

goatmeat

(3) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 329, 30.12.1995, p. 18.
(5) OJ L 206, 16.8.1996, p. 4.
(6) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 21.
(7) OJ L 312, 20.11.1998, p. 1.

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(iii) to direct payments under Article 19 of Council

(b) Paragraph 3 is replaced by the following:

Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 (1)

hereinafter referred to as (cid:147)Community schemes(cid:148).

The Commission may,

2.
in accordance with the
procedure laid down in Article 12a(2), extend the inte-
grated system to other Community aid schemes and,
consequently, align the corresponding provisions of the
rules concerned.(cid:146)

(b) Paragraph 3 is deleted.

(c) Paragraph 4 becomes paragraph 3.

2. In Article 2 letters (b) and (c) are replaced by the following:

(cid:145)3. Member State may decide that an area aid
application need contain only changes with respect to
the area aid application submitted the previous year.
Member States shall simplify the application process by
distributing pre-printed forms based on the areas
determined in the previous year
and supplying
graphic material indicating the location of those areas.(cid:146)

(c) Paragraph 4 is replaced by the following::

Certain amendments may be made to the area
(cid:145)4.
aid application provided that they are received by the
competent authorities no later than the date laid down
for sowing in Council Regulation (EC) No 1251/1999.(cid:146)

(cid:145)(b) an identification system for agricultural parcels,

(d) Paragraph 6 is replaced by the following:

(c) a system for the identification and registration of

animals,(cid:146)

For each of

(cid:145)6.
the agricultural parcels declared,
farmers shall indicate the area and its location, which
information must enable the parcel to be identified in
the identification system for agricultural parcels.(cid:146)

3. Article 4 is replaced by the following:

(cid:145)Article 4

An identification system for agricultural parcels shall be
land registry
established on the basis of maps or
documents or other cartographic references. Use shall be
made of computerised geographical
information system
techniques including aerial or spatial orthoimagery, with
an homogenous standard guaranteeing accuracy at least
equivalent to cartography at a scale of 1:10 000.(cid:146)

5. The following Article 9a is inserted:

(cid:145)Article 9a

For

the purposes of

1.
applying Community aid
schemes not referred to in Article 1, the Member States
shall ensure that the administration and control systems
applied to them are compatible with the integrated admin-
istration and control system in the following respects:

4. Article 6 is amended as follows:

(i) the computerised data base,

(a) Paragraph 2 is replaced by the following:

(ii) the parcel and animal identification systems,

(cid:145)2.
The area aid application shall be submitted by a
date to be fixed by the Member State which shall not
submission of
be after
applications in Council Regulation (EC) No 1251/1999.

laid down for

that

the

In all cases, the date shall be set bearing in mind, inter
alia, the period required for all relevant data to be
available for the proper administrative and financial
management of the aid and for the checks provided
for in Article 8 to be carried out.

Notwithstanding Article 5(1) of Council Regulation
(EEC, Euratom) No 1182/71 of 3 June 1971 deter-
mining the rules applicable to periods, dates and
time limits (2), where the submission date is a public
holiday, a Saturday or a Sunday, it shall be deemed to
fall on the first working day following.(cid:146)

(iii) administrative checks,

Where aids other than area aids are provided for,
the
Member States may incorporate in their administration
and control procedure one or more
administrative,
technical or data-processing components of the integrated
system.

the schemes
The specific provisions laid down under
referred to in the first and second subparagraph,
in
particular those concerning the terms on which aid may
be granted, shall not be affected by this Regulation.

2. Member States may extend the possibility provided
for in the second subparagraph of paragraph 1 to national
schemes.

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 48.
(2) OJ L 124, 8.6.1971, p. 1.

They may use the information from the integrated system
for statistical purposes.

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3. Member States shall inform the Commission if they
avail
referred to in
themselves of
paragraphs 1 and 2.

the possibilities

The Commission shall ensure that recourse to these possi-
bilities does not prejudice compliance with the sectored
Regulations or this Regulation.(cid:146)

6. Article 10 is deleted.

7. Article 11(1) is replaced by the following:

the
2. Where reference is made to this paragraph,
management procedure
laid down in Article 4 of
Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply in compliance with
Article 7(3) thereof.

The period provided for in Article 4(3) of Decision

3.
1999/468/EC shall be one month.

The Committee may examine any matter raised by its
4.
Chairman, either on his own initiative or at the request of
a Member State.(cid:146)

The Commission shall be regularly informed on the

(cid:145)1.
application of the integrated system.

10. In Article 13(1), the following letters (c) and (d) are added:

It shall organise exchanges of views on this subject with
the Member States.(cid:146)

(cid:145)(c)

from 1 January 2003 as regards the geographical part
of the parcel identification system;

8. Article 12 is amended as follows:

(a) The first sentence is replaced by the following:

(d) from 1 January 2001 as regards the compatibility of
the administration and control systems with the inte-
grated system as foreseen in Article 9a.(cid:146)

(cid:145)The Commission shall adopt detailed rules for the
application of this Regulation in accordance with the
procedure laid down in Article 12a(2).(cid:146)

(b) Letter (a) is replaced by the following:

Article 2

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

(cid:145)(a)

the basic features of the identification system for
agricultural parcels;(cid:146).

It shall apply to applications submitted in respect of marketing
years or premium periods starting on or after 1 January 2000.

9. After Article 12 the following Article 12a is inserted:

(cid:145)Article 12a

For the purpose of implementing this Regulation, the
1.
Commission shall be assisted by the Fund Committee
established
by Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No
1258/1999 (hereinafter referred to as (cid:147)the Committee(cid:148)).

The Commission shall, where appropriate, adopt provisions
under the procedure laid down in Article 12a(2) of Regulation
(EEC) No 3508/92 to facilitate the transition from the
provisions of that Regulation to those laid down by this Regu-
lation.

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