Commission Regulation (EC) No 1111/2004 of 14 June 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 2199/2003 laying down transitional measures for the application in respect of the year 2004 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1259/1999 as regards the single area payment scheme for the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia
Date: 2004-06-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aid per hectare, aid system, enlargement of the Union, utilised agricultural area

15.6.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 213/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1111/2004

of 14 June 2004

amending Regulation (EC) No 2199/2003 laying down transitional measures for the application in
respect of the year 2004 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1259/1999 as regards the single area
payment scheme for the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta,
Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to the Treaty of Accession of the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland,
Slovenia and Slovakia,

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 subparagraph
of Article 41 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

for

the

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2199/2003 (1)
lays
down transitional measures
application in
respect of the year 2004 of the single area payment
scheme. In particular, Article 4 provides that the date
by which an application is to be submitted by a farmer
shall be fixed by the new Member State and shall not be
later than 15 June 2004 and that modifications of appli-
cations shall be done by 15 June 2004.

In some new Member States farmers may face some
difficulties with the introduction of a new support
regime and may not be able to submit an application
by 15 June 2004. Therefore, it is appropriate to provide,
with effect from 15 June 2004, for the possibility for the
new Member States concerned to fix a latest date for
submitting an application which shall not be later than
15 July 2004. Consequently, the latest date for modifi-
cations of applications should be postponed to 15 July
2004. Regulation (EC) No 2199/2003 should be
amended accordingly.

(3)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Direct Payments,

Article 1

Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 2199/2003 is replaced by the
following:

‘Article 4

Single area payment application

In order to benefit

1.
from the single area payment
scheme, a farmer shall submit to the competent authority,
by a date to be fixed by the new Member State which shall
not be later than 15 July 2004, an application indicating the
areas eligible according to the conditions referred to in
Article 143b(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003.

2.
For modifications of applications, within the meaning
of Article 8(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2419/2001, to the
single area payment scheme, the date referred to in Article
8(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2419/2001 shall be a date to be
fixed by the new Member State which shall not be later than
15 July 2004.

3.
The single area payment application shall be treated as
an aid application within the meaning of Article 2(i) of
Regulation (EC) No 2419/2001.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publi-
cation in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 15 June 2004.

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

Done at Brussels, 14 June 2004.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 328, 17.12.2003, p. 21.