Commission Regulation (EC) No 1850/2004 of 25 October 2004 amending Regulation (EC) No 1117/2004 fixing the exchange rate applicable in 2004 to certain direct aids and measures of a structural or environmental nature in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia
Date: 2004-10-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: accession to the European Union, aid per hectare, aid to agriculture, exchange rate, fruit-growing, nut

26.10.2004

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 323/5

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1850/2004

of 25 October 2004

amending Regulation (EC) No 1117/2004 fixing the exchange rate applicable in 2004 to certain
direct aids and measures of a structural or environmental nature in 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 Commission Regulation (EC) No 751/2004 of
22 April 2004 setting certain operative events for the exchange
rate for 2004 for the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia,
Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to take
account of their accession to the European Union (1), and in
particular the second paragraph of Article 1 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

The exchange rates in the Annex to Commission Regu-
lation (EC) No 1117/2004 (2) apply to the support
schemes for which the operative event for the exchange
rate was fixed for the abovementioned Member States at
1 May 2004 pursuant to Regulation (EC) No 751/2004.

amendment of Regulation (EC) No
Following the
751/2004 by Regulation (EC) No 1843/2004,
the
operative event for the exchange rate for 2004 in the
Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania,
Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia for the
purposes of converting into national currency the area
payment for nuts provided for in Chapter 4 of Title IV of
Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 (3), which estab-
lishes common rules for direct support schemes under

the common agricultural policy and certain support
schemes for farmers, and amends certain regulations, is
fixed as the date of entry into force of the 2003 Treaty
of Accession.

(3)

Regulation (EC) No 1117/2004 does not refer to the area
payment for nuts provided for in Chapter 4 of Title IV of
Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003. The rates fixed in the
Annex thereto should, however, also apply to the area
payment for nuts.

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 1117/2004 should therefore be
amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The following point (e) is added to the first subparagraph of
Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 1117/2004:

‘(e) the area payment for nuts provided for in Chapter 4 of

Title IV of 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, 25 October 2004.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 118, 23.4.2004, p. 19. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1843/2004 (OJ L 322, 23.10.2004, p. 10).

(2) OJ L 217, 17.6.2004, p. 8.
(3) 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).