Commission Regulation (EC) No 2730/1999 of 21 December 1999 introducing a transitional arrangement for the application of the special premium scheme for male bovine animals provided for in Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 on the common organisation of the market in beef and veal
Date: 1999-12-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural guidance, beef, common organisation of markets

22. 12. 1999

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Official Journal of the European Communities

L 328/37

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2730/1999

of 21 December 1999

introducing a transitional arrangement for the application of the special premium scheme for male
bovine animals provided for in Article 4 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 on the common
organisation of the market in beef and veal

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in beef
and veal (1), and in particular Article 50 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

some passports within the meaning of Article 6 of
Council Regulation (EC) No 820/97 of 21 April 1997
establishing a system for the identification and registra-
tion of bovine animals and regarding the labelling of
beef and beef products (2), accompanying steers, expli-
citly include a reference to the effect
that eligibility
expires during January 2000;

in view of this reference, farmers in possession of steers
with such passports may consider that they are entitled
to the first instalment of the special premium for these
animals, even though the amendment to the age limits
introduced by Article 4(2)(b) of Regulation (EC) No
1254/1999 means that
the animals are no longer
eligible from 1 January 2000 onwards;

these

farmers'

legitimate

expectations,
to protect
Member States should accordingly be allowed to take
account of these dates in the case of steers whose eligi-
bility would normally end on 31 December 1999 under
Article 2(2)(b) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2342/
1999 of 28 October 1999 laying down detailed rules for
the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/
1999 on the common organisation of the market in
beef and veal as regards premium schemes (3);

to discourage farmers from delaying the lodgement of
their special premium applications and to ensure that
they do not gain any undue benefit, the aid rate of be
applied to the animals in question must be that for
1999;

the measures provided for in this Regulation are in
the Management
accordance with the opinion of
Committee for Beef and Veal,

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 117, 7.5.1997, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 281, 4.11.1999, p. 30.

Article 1

Member States may decide that steers which, on the basis of
the expiry date for eligibility in their passports, would have
been the subject of an application for the first tranch of the
special premium on or after 1 January 2000 under the second
indent of Article 2(2) of Commission Regulation (EEC) No
3886/92 of 23 December 1992 laying down detailed rules for
the application of
the premium schemes provided for in
Council Regulation (EEC) No 805/68 on the common organ-
isation of the market in beef and repealing Regulations (EEC)
No 1244/82 and (EEC) No 714/89 (4), as repealed by Regula-
tion (EC) No 2342/1999, but which are no longer eligible for
that first tranche from 1 January 2000 onwards by virtue of
the entry into force of Article 2(2)(b) of Regulation (EC) No
2342/1999, may be the subject of an application for the first
tranche of the premium scheme until the expiry date for eligi-
bility referred to in Article 2.

Article 2

This Regulation shall apply only to steers accompanied by a
passport within the meaning of Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No
820/97, provided that
the competent authority has also
included on the passport an expiry date in January 2000 for
eligibility for the first tranche of the special premium under the
second indent of Article 2(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3886/92.

Article 3

The premium granted per animal pursuant to this Regulation
shall be that applicable for applications lodged in respect of
1999.

Article 4

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

(4) OJ L 391, 31.12.1992, p. 20.

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22. 12. 1999

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

Done at Brussels, 21 December 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission