Commission Regulation (EC) No 1766/2004 of 13 October 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: 2004-10-13
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: accession to the European Union, aid per hectare, aid system, aid to agriculture, transitional period (EU), utilised agricultural area

14.10.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 315/27

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1766/2004

of 13 October 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,

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)

for

the

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2199/2003 (1)
lays
application in
down transitional measures
respect of the year 2004 of the single area payment
scheme in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia,
Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia
(hereinafter the new Member States). In particular, Article
8(1) provides that payments shall be made once a year
within the period from 1 December 2004 to 30 April
2005.

(2)

In order to avoid possible cash flow difficulties during
the 2004 sowing period, due to the transition from the
pre-accession support regimes which provided various

support,

the date

from which the new
kinds of
Member States using the single area payment scheme
may start
the payments to the farmers in respect of
the year 2004 should be 16 October 2004.

(3)

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 2199/2003 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 2199/2003, paragraph 1 is
replaced by the following:

Payments shall be made once a year within the period

‘1.
from 16 October 2004 to 30 April 2005.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day
following that of its publication in the Official
Journal of the
European Union.

It shall apply from 16 October 2004.

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

Done at Brussels, 13 October 2004.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 328, 17.12.2003, p. 21. Regulation amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1111/2004 (OJ L 213, 15.6.2004, p. 3).