Commission Regulation (EC) No 751/2004 of 22 April 2004 setting certain operative events for the exchange rate for 2004 for the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to take account of their accession to the European Union
Date: 2004-04-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: accession to the European Union, agri-monetary policy, enlargement of the Union, euro, exchange rate

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 751/2004

of 22 April 2004

setting certain operative events for the exchange rate for 2004 for the Czech Republic, Estonia,
Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to take account of their
accession to the European Union

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to the Treaty of Accession of
the Czech
Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta,
Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia, and in particular Article 2(3)
thereof,

Having regard to the Act of Accession of the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland,
Slovenia and Slovakia, and in particular the first paragraph of
Article 41 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

In order to take account of the principle that the opera-
tive event for the exchange rate is fixed as the first day
of the period for which certain aid is granted, the opera-
tive event for 2004 for the Czech Republic, Estonia,
Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland,
called ‘the new
Slovenia and Slovakia, hereinafter
Member States’, should be fixed as the date of their
accession to the European Union for the purposes of the
support schemes for which the operative event for the
exchange rate falls on 1 January.

It is therefore appropriate to derogate for 2004 from
those provisions of Commission Regulation (EC) No
2808/98 of 22 December 1998 laying down detailed
rules for the application of the agrimonetary system for
the euro in agriculture (1), 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 and veal as regards premium schemes (2),
and 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) which concern the
exchange rate in the beef and veal, sheepmeat and goat
meat and energy crop sectors and for structural and

(1) OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 36. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 2304/2003 (OJ L 342, 30.12.2003, p. 6).

(2) OJ L 281, 4.11.1999, p. 30. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1473/2003 (OJ L 211, 21.8.2003, p. 12).

(3) OJ L 341, 22.12.2001, p. 105. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 2307/2003 (OJ L 342, 30.12.2003, p. 11).

environmental measures. The operative event
for the
exchange rate to be used in the new Member States for
the purposes of those support schemes should be set as
the date of entry into force of the 2003 Treaty of Acces-
sion. Accordingly, the exchange rate must be fixed by
the Commission on the basis of the average pro rata
temporis of
the rates applicable during the month
preceding the said date of entry into force.

(3)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of the relevant Manage-
ment Committees,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

As an exception to Article 4(1) and (2) of Regulation (EC) No
2808/98, Article 43 of Regulation (EC) No 2342/1999 and
Article 18a of Regulation (EC) No 2550/2001, the operative
event of the exchange rate in the Czech Republic, Estonia,
Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and
Slovakia for 2004 shall be the date of entry into force of the
2003 Treaty of Accession for the purposes of converting the
following amounts into national currency:

(a) the amounts of a structural or environmental nature
referred to in Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2808/98,

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

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

(d) the aid for energy crops provided for in Chapter 5 of Title

IV of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 (6).

The exchange rate to be used shall correspond to the average
pro rata temporis of the rates applicable during the calendar
month preceding the date of entry into force of the 2003
Treaty of Accession and shall be fixed by the Commission
during the following month.

(4) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 21.
(5) OJ L 341, 22.12.2001, p. 3.
(6) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 1.

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This Regulation shall enter into force subject to and on the date of the entry into force of the Treaty of
Accession of the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and
Slovakia.

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 22 April 2004.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission