WRITTEN QUESTION E-3025/00 by Ilda Figueiredo (GUE/NGL) to the Commission. Rules implementing adjustments to direct CAP payments.
Date: 2000-09-26
Institutions: European Parliament, Provisional data
Subjects: aid to agriculture, common agricultural policy, rural development, support policy

8.5.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 136 E/161

(2001/C 136 E/188)

WRITTEN QUESTION E-3025/00

by Ilda Figueiredo (GUE/NGL) to the Commission

Subject: Rules implementing adjustments to direct CAP payments

(26 September 2000)

It has been announced that rules are being drawn up on the implementation of Regulation (EC) No 1259/
99 (1) concerning direct payments to farmers under common agricultural policy support schemes.

Would the Commission therefore provide:

(cid:129) information on the proposals for implementing the arrangements for adjusting the direct payments to
farmers eligible for CAP support schemes, with particular reference to the application of Article 9 of
the above regulation and to the way in which the amounts will be calculated and incorporated into
rural development planning;

(cid:129) information concerning the date on which the rules are likely to be adopted and introduced?

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 113.

Answer given by Mr Fischler on behalf of the Commission

(7 November 2000)

The Commission is in fact currently preparing the implementing regulation of Council Regulation (EC)
No 1259/1999 of 17 May 1999, establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the
common agricultural policy. Although it is premature at this stage to give a detailed list of the contents,
the Commission would indicate that the principal objectives of this implementing regulation will be to
specify how retentions applied by Member States under Articles 3 and 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1259/1999
can be used to support rural development measures (in accordance with Article 5 (2) of the above
Regulation, these are exclusively supporting measures such as early retirement, less favoured areas, agri-
environment and afforestation). Under Article 9 of Regulation (EC) No 1259/1999, the implementing
regulation will also define how information relating to its implementation by Member States is to be
communicated to the Commission.

Since methods for calculating the figures to be used have already been set out in detail in Article 4 of
Regulation (EC) No 1259/1999, they need not be repeated with regard to the implementing regulation.

It is the Commission(cid:146)s intention to approve and publish this implementing regulation as quickly as
possible.

(2001/C 136 E/189)

WRITTEN QUESTION P-3026/00

by Francesco Musotto (PPE-DE) to the Commission

(20 September 2000)

Subject: Situation of olive oil producers in Sicily

Article 7(b) of Regulation No 2366/98 (1) provides, with regard to the arrangements for the inspection of
oil mills, that from the 2000/2001 marketing year the facilities must include an automatic system for
weighing olives and recording weights and an electricity meter specifically for the pressing equipment.

Sicilian agriculture, and in particular regional olive-growing, is undergoing a serious crisis as a result of
internal factors such as structural organisation and problems of altitude, and of external factors such as the
constant increase in production costs, which are no longer subject to control and assessment by the
various agricultural market organisations.