Council Regulation (EC) No 2136/2001 of 23 October 2001 amending Regulation (EC) No 723/97 on the implementation of Member States' action programmes on control of EAGGF Guarantee Section expenditure
Date: 2001-10-23
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Community budget, EAGGF Guarantee Section, EU control, action programme, agricultural expenditure, aid to agriculture

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 2136/2001

of 23 October 2001

amending Regulation (EC) No 723/97 on the implementation of Member States' action programmes
on control of EAGGF Guarantee Section expenditure

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 (1),

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2),

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

in

States

implementing

Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 723/97 (3) provides for
the Community to contribute towards costs incurred by
Member
new action
programmes, arising out of new Community obligations,
approved by the Commission and aimed at improving
the structures or effectiveness of EAGGF Guarantee
Section expenditure controls. Article 4 of the said Regu-
lation provides that the Community financial contribu-
tion is to be granted per calendar year for a period of
five consecutive years starting from 1997, within the
limit of the annual appropriations authorised by the
budget authority in the light of the financial perspective.

The Commission has transmitted to the Council a report
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 effectiveness of the programmes implemented, the
Commission considers
should
continue to receive financial assistance for the imple-
mentation of the programmes provided for in Article 1
of Regulation (EC) No 723/97.

that Member States

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
in the
system for certain Community aid schemes (4),

area of the improvement of the agricultural parcel iden-
tification system having recourse to the technique of
geographical
information system and of digital ortho-
photography, 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 context, it is appropriate, for reasons
of legal clarity, to delete the last indent of Article 5 of
Regulation (EC) No 723/97.

(4)

(5)

The period during which Community financial contribu-
tion may be paid should therefore be extended by two
years.

Regulation (EC) No 723/97 should be amended accord-
ingly,

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:

‘However, for programmes relating to the year 2002, the
time limit for submission of action programmes to the
Commission shall be 31 January 2002.’

2. In the first sentence of Article 4(1), the term ‘five consecu-
tive years’ shall be replaced by ‘seven consecutive years’.

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

(1) OJ C 270 E, 25.9.2001, p. 22.
(2) Opinion delivered on 2 October 2001 (not yet published in the

Official Journal).

(3) OJ L 108, 25.4.1997, p. 6.
(4) OJ L 182, 21.7.2000, p. 4. Regulation as last amended by Commis-
sion Regulation (EC) No 495/2001 (OJ L 72, 14.3.2001, p. 6).

Article 2

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

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

Done at Luxembourg, 23 October 2001.

For the Council

The President

A. NEYTS-UYTTEBROECK