Commission Regulation (EC) No 1733/2004 of 5 October 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 635/2004 fixing the exchange rates applicable to certain direct aids and structural or environmental measures in 2004
Date: 2004-10-05
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aid to agriculture, nut, representative rate, utilised agricultural area

6.10.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 309/5

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1733/2004

of 5 October 2004

amending Regulation (EC) No 635/2004 fixing the exchange rates applicable to certain direct aids
and structural or environmental measures in 2004

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2808/98 of
22 December 1998 laying down detailed rules for the appli-
cation of the agrimonetary system for the euro in agriculture (1),
and in particular the second sentence of Article 4(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

the

first

Under
subparagraph of Article 4(1) of
Commission Regulation (EC) No 2808/98, the operative
event
for the area payment for nuts provided for in
Chapter 4 of Title IV of Council Regulation (EC) No
1782/2003 (2), which establishes common rules
for
direct support schemes under the common agricultural
policy and certain support schemes for farmers, and
amends
of
commencement of the marketing year concerned.

Regulations,

certain

date

the

is

Under the second paragraph of Article 4 of Commission
Regulation (EC) No 659/97 of 16 April 1997 laying
down detailed rules for the application of Council Regu-
lation (EC) No 2200/96 as
intervention
arrangements in the fruit and vegetables sector (3), the
marketing year for nuts commences on 1 January.

regards

(3)

(4)

The Annex
to Commission Regulation (EC) No
635/2004 (4) shows the exchange rates for amounts for
which the operative event is 1 January.

Regulation (EC) No 635/2004 does not refer to the area
payment for nuts provided for in Chapter 4 of Title IV of
Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003. The rates fixed
in the Annex thereto should, however, also apply to the
area payment for nuts.

(5)

Regulation (EC) No 635/2004 should therefore be
amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The following point (f) is added to the first subparagraph of
Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 635/2004:

‘(f)

the area payment for nuts provided for in Chapter 4 of
Title IV of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
the European
that of
Union.

its publication in the Official

Journal of

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

Done at Brussels, 5 October 2004.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission

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

lation (EC) No 1250/2004 (OJ L 237, 8.7.2004, p. 13).

(2) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 864/2004 (OJ L 161, 30.4.2004, p. 48).

(3) OJ L 100, 17.4.1997, p. 22. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1135/2001 (OJ L 154, 9.6.2001, p. 9).

(4) OJ L 100, 6.4.2004, p. 22.