Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 723/97 on the implementation of Member States' action programmes on control of EAGGF Guarantee Section expenditure
Date: 2001-06-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Community budget, EAGGF Guarantee Section, EU Member State, action programme, agricultural expenditure, aid to agriculture

C 270 E/22

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

25.9.2001

Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EC) No 723/97 on the implementation of
Member States’ action programmes on control of EAGGF Guarantee Section expenditure

(2001/C 270 E/03)

COM(2001) 308 final (cid:151) 2001/0130(CNS)

(Submitted by the Commission on 11 June 2001)

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,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,

system having recourse to the technique of geographical
information system and of digital orthophotography, a
Community contribution is justified to cover part of the
expenditure incurred by Member States in the framework
of new action programmes covering this domain; in this
legal clarity, to
context,
delete the last
indent of Article 5 of Regulation (EC)
No 723/97.

it is appropriate, for reasons of

Whereas:

(1) Article 1 of Council Regulation (EC) No 723/97 of 22 April
1997 on the implementation of Member States’ action
programmes on control of EAGGF Guarantee Section
expenditure (1), provides that the Community contributes
towards costs incurred by Member States in implementing
new action programmes, arising out of new Community
obligations, approved by the Commission and aimed at
improving the
effectiveness of EAGGF
Guarantee section expenditure controls; Article 4 of the
financial
Regulation
that
contribution shall be granted per calendar year
for a
period of
starting from 1997,
within the limit of the annual appropriations authorised
the financial
by the budget authority in the light of
perspective.

five consecutive years

the Community

structures or

provides

(2) The Commission has transmitted a report to the Council
on the results of
the application of Regulation (EC)
No 723/97 during the period 1997 to 2000. Given the
assessment reports prepared by the Member States and
the
the effectiveness of
Commission
should
continue to receive financial assistance for the implemen-
tation of the programmes foreseen in Article 1 of Regu-
lation (EC) No 723/97.

the programmes implemented,

that Member

concludes

States

(4) The

period

financial
contribution may be paid should therefore be extended
by one year,

during which

Community

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 723/97 is hereby amended as follows:

1. In Article 2(1) the second subparagraph shall be replaced by

the following:

(cid:145)However, for programmes relating to the year 2002, the
for submission of action programmes to the
time limit
Commission shall be the end of the first month following
the entry into force of Regulation (EC) No . . ./. . . amending
the present Regulation.(cid:146)

2. In the first

sentence of Article 4(1),

(cid:145)five
consecutive years(cid:146) shall be replaced by (cid:145)six consecutive
years(cid:146).

the terms

3. In Article 5 the last indent shall be deleted.

Article 2

(3) In particular, since new expensive techniques have been
introduced by Council Regulation (EC) No 1593/2000 of
17 July 2000 amending Regulation (EEC) No 3508/92
establishing an integrated administration and control
system for certain Community aid schemes (2), in the area
of the improvement of the agricultural parcel identification

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

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

(1) OJ L 108, 25.4.1997, p. 6.
(2) OJ L 182, 21.7.1999, p. 4. Regulation last amended by Commission

Regulation (EC) No 495/2001 (OJ L 72, 14.3.2001, p. 6).