2004/687/EC:Commission Decision of 6 October 2004 fixing, for the 2004/2005 marketing year and in respect of a certain number of hectares, an indicative financial allocation by Member State for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards under Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 (notified under document number C(2004) 3661)
Date: 2004-10-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aid per hectare, common organisation of markets, policy on agricultural structures, redevelopment aid, redirection of production, vineyard, viticulture

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 6 October 2004

fixing, for the 2004/2005 marketing year and in respect of a certain number of hectares, an
indicative financial allocation by Member State for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards
under Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999

(notified under document number C(2004) 3661)

(2004/687/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of
in
wine (1), and in particular Article 14(1) thereof,

the market

Whereas:

(4)

(5)

States must take due account of the proportion of the
Community
State
concerned.

in the Member

vineyard

area

For the purposes of implementing Article 14(4) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1493/1999,
the financial allocations
should be made in respect of a certain number of
hectares.

Under Article 13(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999,
the Community contribution to the costs of restructuring
and conversion is higher in regions classified as Objective
1 in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No
1260/1999 of 21 June 1999 laying down general
provisions on the Structural Funds (3).

for
are

The rules
the restructuring and conversion of
laid down in Regulation (EC) No
vineyards
1493/1999 and Commission Regulation (EC) No
1227/2000 of 31 May 2000 laying down detailed
rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No
1493/1999 on the common organisation of the market
in wine, as regards production potential (2).

(6)

Account must be taken of the compensation for the loss
of
income incurred by the wine growers during the
period when the vineyard is not yet in production.

(1)

(2)

The detailed rules on financial planning and participation
in financing the restructuring and conversion scheme laid
down in Regulation (EC) No 1227/2000 stipulate that
the references to a given financial year refer to the
payments actually made by the Member States between
16 October and the following 15 October.

(7)

the initial allocation,

In accordance with Article 17(5) of Regulation (EC) No
1227/2000, where expenditure actually incurred by a
Member State in a given financial year is less than
75 % of
the expenditure to be
recognised for the following financial year, and the corre-
sponding total area, are to be reduced by a third of the
difference between this threshold and the actual expen-
diture incurred during the financial year in question. This
provision applies in the 2004/2005 wine year to Greece,
whose expenditure in respect of 2004 amounts
to
71.47 % of its initial allocation.

(3)

In accordance with Article 14(3) of Regulation (EC) No
the financial allocation between Member
1493/1999,

(1) OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1. Regulation as

(EC) No 1795/2003 (OJ

last amended by
L 262,

Commission Regulation
14.10.2003, p.13).

(2) OJ L 143, 16.6.2000, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

(3) OJ L 161, 26.6.1999, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1389/2004 (OJ L 255, 31.7.2004, p. 7).

lation (EC) No 1105/2003 (OJ L 158, 27.6.2003, p. 3).

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(8)

In accordance with Article 14(2) of Regulation (EC) No
1493/1999, the initial allocation is adapted in view of
real expenditure and on the basis of revised expenditure
forecasts submitted by the Member States, taking account
of the objective of the scheme and subject to the funds
available,

2004/2005 marketing year shall be as set out in the Annex
hereto.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The financial allocations by Member State,
in respect of a
certain number of hectares, for the restructuring and conversion
of vineyards under Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 for the

Done at Brussels, 6 October 2004.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission

ANNEX

Indicative financial allocations for 2004/2005

Member State

Area (ha)

Financial allocation (EUR)

Czech Republic

Germany

Greece

Spain

France

Italy

Cyprus

Luxembourg

Hungary

Malta

Austria

Portugal

Slovenia

Slovakia

189

1 971

1 360

19 379

13 541

14 529

196

14

1 261

17

1 271

6 987

172

801

1 743 010

12 671 756

9 704 037

145 492 269

107 042 204

103 020 889

2 378 955

112 000

10 086 046

171 637

7 224 984

44 532 820

2 919 879

2 899 514

TOTAL

61 688

450 000 000