Commission Regulation (EC) No 445/2003 of 11 March 2003 fixing the exchange rates applicable to certain direct aids and structural or environmental measures in 2003
Date: 2003-03-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agri-monetary policy, aid to agriculture, environmental policy, exchange rate, policy on agricultural structures

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 445/2003

of 11 March 2003

fixing the exchange rates applicable to certain direct aids and structural or environmental measures
in 2003

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2799/98 of 15
December 1998 establishing agrimonetary arrangements for
the euro (1),

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1410/1999
of 29 June 1999 amending Regulation (EC) No 2808/98 laying
down detailed rules for the application of the agrimonetary
system for the euro in agriculture and amending the definition
of certain operative events provided for in Regulations (EEC)
Nos 3889/87, 3886/92, 1793/93 and 2700/93 and (EC) No
293/98 (2), and in particular Article 2 thereof,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2550/2001
of 21 December 2001 laying down detailed rules for the appli-
cation of Council Regulation (EC) No 2529/2001 on the
common organisation of the market in sheepmeat and goat-
meat as regards premium schemes and amending Regulation
(EC) No 2419/2001 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
623/2002 (4), and in particular the second paragraph of Article
18a thereof,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2342/1999
of 28 October 1999 laying down detailed rules for the applica-
tion of Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 on the
common organisation of the market in beef and veal as regards
premium schemes (5), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
2381/2002 (6), and in particular Article 43 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

In accordance with Article 4(2) of Commission Regula-
tion (EC) No 2808/98 of 22 December 1998 laying
down detailed rules for the application of the agrimone-
the euro in agriculture (7), as
tary system for
last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 2452/2000 (8),
the
operative event for the exchange rate for amounts of a
structural or environmental nature is 1 January of the
year in which the decision to grant the aid is taken. In
accordance with Article 4(3) the exchange rate to be
used is the average of the exchange rates applicable
during the month preceding the date of the operative
event, calculated pro rata temporis.

In accordance with Article 12 of Commission Regulation
(EC) No 293/98 of 4 February 1998 determining the
operative events applicable to products in the fruit and
and
vegetables

processed

sector,

fruit

to

(1) OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 164, 30.6.1999, p. 53.
(3) OJ L 341, 22.12.2001, p. 105.
(4) OJ L 95, 12.4.2002, p. 12.
(5) OJ L 281, 4.11.1999, p. 30.
(6) OJ L 358, 31.12.2002, p. 119.
(7) OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 36.
(8) OJ L 282, 8.11.2000, p. 9.

(3)

(4)

vegetable products and partly to live plants and floricul-
tural products and to certain products listed in Annex II
to the EC Treaty, and repealing Regulation (EC) No
1445/93 (9), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No
1410/1999, the exchange rate applicable for the conver-
sion each year into national currency of the maximum
aid per hectare to improve the quality and marketing of
nuts and locust beans is the average of the exchange
rates applicable during the month before 1 January of
the annual reference period, calculated pro rata temporis.

In accordance with Article 18a of Regulation (EC) No
2550/2001, the operative event for the exchange rate to
be applied to the premiums and payments in the sheep-
meat and goatmeat sector is established at the start of
the calendar year in respect of which the premium or
payment is granted. The exchange rate to be used corre-
sponds to the average of the exchange rates applicable
in the month of December preceding the date of the
operative event, calculated pro rata temporis.

In accordance with Article 42 of Regulation (EC) No
2342/1999, the date of submission of the application is
the operative event for determining the year in respect
of which the special premium, the suckler cow payment,
the deseasonalisation premium and the extensification
payment are to be allocated. In the case of the slaughter
premium the year of allocation is the year of slaughter
or export. In accordance with Article 43 of that Regula-
tion, premiums and payments in the beef sector are
converted into national currency on the basis of the
average of the exchange rates applicable in the month of
December preceding the year of allocation, calculated
pro rata temporis.

(5)

The exchange rate applicable in 2003 to the amounts
concerned should therefore be set on the basis of the
average of the exchange rates applicable in the month of
December 2002, calculated pro rata temporis,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In 2003, the exchange rates shown in the Annex shall apply to
the following:

(a) amounts of a structural or environmental nature referred to

in Article 5 of Regulation (EC) No 2799/98;

(9) OJ L 30, 5.2.1998, p. 16.

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(b) the maximum amount per hectare of the aid for marketing
in the nuts and locust beans sector set in Article 2 of
Council Regulation (EEC) No 790/89 (1);

(d) the premiums and payments in the beef sector provided for
in Articles 4, 5, 6, 11, 13 and 14 of Council Regulation
(EC) No 1254/1999 (3).

(c) the premiums and payments in the sheepmeat and goat-
meat sector provided for in Articles 4, 5 and 11 of Council
Regulation (EC) No 2529/2001 (2);

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

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 11 March 2003.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 85, 30.3.1989, p. 6.
(2) OJ L 341, 22.12.2001, p. 3.

(3) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 21.

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ANNEX

Exchange rates referred to in Article 1

EUR 1 = (average for 1 December 2002 to 31 December 2002)

7,42618

9,09600

Danish krone

Swedish krona

0,642116

Pounds sterling