Commission Regulation (EC) No 1621/2003 of 16 September 2003 amending Regulation (EC) No 1503/2003 derogating from Regulation (EC) No 2342/1999 and from Council Regulation (EC) No 2529/2001 as regards advance payments in the beef and veal sector and payments in the sheepmeat and goatmeat sector
Date: 2003-09-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aid system, aid to agriculture, beef, derogation from EU law, goatmeat, sheepmeat

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1621/2003

of 16 September 2003

amending Regulation (EC) No 1503/2003 derogating from Regulation (EC) No 2342/1999 and from
Council Regulation (EC) No 2529/2001 as regards advance payments in the beef and veal sector
and payments in the sheepmeat and goatmeat sector

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in beef
and veal (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 806/
2003 (2), and in particular Article 4(8) and Article 6(7) thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2529/2001 of 19
December 2001 on the common organisation of the market in
sheepmeat and goatmeat (3), and in particular Article 26
thereof,

Whereas:

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

Since that Regulation was adopted developments have
in some regions of Spain producers are
shown that
equally affected by the drought. Spain should, therefore,
be added to the list of Member States in the Annex to
Regulation (EC) No 1503/2003.

For reasons of sound budgetary management, it is neces-
sary that the Member States concerned communicate to
the Commission by 1 October 2003 the amount of the
payments they intend to have made by 15 October
2003 at the latest.

Regulation (EC) No 1503/2003 should be amended
accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
the Management
accordance with the opinion of
Committee for Beef and Veal and the Management
Committee for Sheep and Goats,

(1)

(2)

(3)

Article 41 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2342/
1999 of 28 October 1999 laying down detailed rules for
the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/
1999 on the common organisation of the market in beef
regards premium schemes (4), as
and veal as
last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1473/2003 (5),
lays
down certain rules relating to the payment of advances.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Article 6(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2529/2001 lays down
certain rules relating to the payments of the ewe and
goat premiums.

In order to allow producers hit by exceptionally unfa-
vourable weather conditions characterised by an intense
and prolonged drought to meet the additional financial
burdens resulting therefrom, Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1503/2003 (6) authorised some Member States
to make advance payments for the beef special premium
and the suckler cow premium as well as payments for
the ewe and goat premiums before 16 October 2003.

Regulation (EC) No 1503/2003 is amended as follows:

1.

in Article 1, the following paragraph 5 is added:

The Member States concerned shall communicate to
‘5.
the
the Commission, by 1 October 2003 at
amount of the payments referred to in paragraph 1 that
they intend to have made by 15 October 2003 at the
latest.’;

the latest,

2. the Annex is replaced by the Annex to this Regulation.

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 21.
(2) OJ L 122, 16.5.2003, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 341, 22.12.2001, p. 3.
(4) OJ L 281, 4.11.1999, p. 30.
(5) OJ L 211, 21.8.2003, p. 12.
(6) OJ L 216, 28.8.2003, p. 23.

Article 2

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

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

Done at Brussels, 16 September 2003.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

ANNEX

‘ANNEX

in EUR million

87

100

225

63

1,4

25’

Germany

Spain

France

Italy

Luxembourg

Portugal