Commission Regulation (EC) No 2785/2000 of 19 December 2000 amending Regulation (EC) No 296/96 on data to be transmitted by the Member States and the monthly booking of expenditure financed under the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), and laying down certain detailed rules of application for Council Regulation (EC) No 1259/1999
Date: 2000-12-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EAGGF Guarantee Section, EU financing, agricultural expenditure, aid to agriculture, budget policy, exchange of information

20.12.2000

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 323/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2785/2000

of 19 December 2000

amending Regulation (EC) No 296/96 on data to be transmitted by the Member States and the
monthly booking of expenditure financed under the Guarantee Section of the European Agricul-
tural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), and laying down certain detailed rules of application
for Council Regulation (EC) No 1259/1999

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the financing of
the common agricultural
policy (1), and in particular Articles 4(8), 5(3) and 7(5) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Council Decision 2000/427/EC of 19 June 2000 in
accordance with Article 122(2) of the Treaty on the
adoption by Greece of the single currency on 1 January
2001 (2) states that Greece fulfils the necessary condi-
tions for the adoption of the single currency.

The second sentence of Article 2 of Council Regulation
(EC) No 974/98 of 3 May 1998 on the introduction of
the euro (3), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 2596/
2000 (4), lays down that the currency of Greece will be
the euro as from 1 January 2001.

Article 4(1a)(a) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 296/
96 of 16 February 1996 on data to be transmitted by
the Member States and the monthly booking of expendi-
ture financed under the Guarantee Section of the Euro-
Fund
pean Agricultural Guidance
(EAGGF), and laying down certain detailed rules of
application for Council Regulation (EC) No 1259/
1999 (5), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2761/
1999 (6),
the
booking of EAGGF Guarantee Section expenditure are to

the advances against

lays down that

and Guarantee

be drawn up and paid in euro for the participating
Member States. The advances to be paid at the start of
January 2001 relate to expenditure effected between 16
October 2000 and 30 November 2000. Provision
should therefore be made to pay those advances to
Greece one last time in national currency.

(4)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of the Committee for the
European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund
(EAGGF),

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 296/96 is amended as follows:

1. The following sentence is added to Article 3(8)(b):

‘This choice shall apply to Greece from 1 January 2001.’

2. The following sentence is added to Article 4(1a)(c):

‘The advances on expenditure effected by Greece between
16 October and 30 November 2000 shall be paid in
national currency units or in national currency.’

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 2001.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 19 December 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 103.
(2) OJ L 167, 7.7.2000, p. 19.
(3) OJ L 139, 11.5.1998, p. 1.
(4) OJ L 300, 29.11.2000, p. 2.
(5) OJ L 39, 17.2.1996, p. 5.
(6) OJ L 331, 23.12.1999, p. 57.