2004/688/EC:Commission Decision of 6 October 2004 fixing, for the 2004 financial year and in respect of a certain number of hectares, the definitive financial allocations by Member State for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards under Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 (notified under document number C(2004) 3663)
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 financial year and in respect of a certain number of hectares, the definitive
financial allocations by Member State for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards under
Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999

(notified under document number C(2004) 3663)

(2004/688/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

In accordance with Article 14(1) of Regulation (EC) No
1493/1999, the Commission makes initial allocations to
Member States each year on the basis of objective
taking into account particular situations and
criteria,
needs and the efforts to be undertaken in the light of
the objective of the scheme.

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 of 17
in
May 1999 on the common organisation of
wine (1), and in particular Article 14(2) thereof,

the market

(4)

The Commission has fixed the indicative financial allo-
cations for 2003/2004 in Decision 2003/628/EC (3).

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

for
are

the restructuring and conversion of
The rules
vineyards
laid down in Regulation (EC) No
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).

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.

(1) OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1. Regulation last amended by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1795/2003 (OJ L 262, 14.10.2003, p. 13).
(2) OJ L 143, 16.6.2000, p. 1. Regulation last amended by Regulation

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

(5)

(6)

Under Article 17(1) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No
1227/2000, expenditure incurred and validated by the
Member States is limited to the amount allocated to
them as laid down in Decision 2003/628/EC. This limit
applies
regards
in 2004 to Germany and Italy as
validated expenditure which is respectively reduced by
EUR 125 227 and EUR 182 679 in order
to limit
their total expenditure to their initial allocations, and to
Portugal, as
regards expenditure incurred, which is
reduced by EUR 140.

Under Article 16(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 1227/2000,
Member States may submit a further request
in the
current financial year. Under Article 17(3) of that Regu-
lation, this request is accepted on a pro-rata basis for
those Member States that have spent their initial allo-
cation,
after
deducting the amounts notified in accordance with
Article 16(1)(a) and (b) and corrected, where appropriate,
under Article 17(1) and (3)
from the total amount
allocated to the Member States. This provision applies
in 2004 to Spain, France, Italy, Austria and Portugal,

appropriations

available

using

the

(3) OJ L 217, 29.8.2003, p. 73.

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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 2

Article 1

Done at Brussels, 6 October 2004.

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

The definitive financial allocations to the Member States for the
2003/2004 wine year, in respect of a number of hectares, for
the restructuring and conversion of vineyards under Regulation
(EC) No 1493/1999, for the period in the 2004 financial year,
shall be as set out in the Annex to this Decision.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission

ANNEX

Definitive financial allocations for the 2003/2004 marketing year (2004 financial year)

Member State

Area (ha)

Financial allocation (EUR)

Germany

Greece

Spain

France

Italy

Luxembourg

Austria

Portugal

2 198

1 519

22 482

21 058

17 990

10

1 837

4 854

71 948

TOTAL

13 989 772

7 176 037

152 001 024

111 840 613

120 341 710

81 856

7 798 847

29 967 725

443 197 584