Commission Regulation (EC) No 2204/2004 of 21 December 2004 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1915/83 on certain detailed implementing rules concerning the keeping of accounts for the purpose of determining the incomes of agricultural holdings
Date: 2004-12-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU financing, farm accountancy data network, farm return

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2204/2004

of 21 December 2004

amending Regulation (EEC) No 1915/83 on certain detailed implementing rules concerning the
keeping of accounts for the purpose of determining the incomes of agricultural holdings

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation No 79/65/EEC of 15 June
1965 setting up a network for the collection of accountancy
data on the incomes and business operation of agricultural
holdings in the European Economic Community (1), and in
particular Article 6(2) thereof,

If the number of duly completed farm returns forwarded
within the time limit per division or per Member State is
less than 80 % of the number fixed for the division or the
Member State in question, the standard fee for the farm
returns from that division or from the Member State
concerned should be reduced as from accounting year
2005. However,
is appropriate, as a transitional
measure, to postpone the application of the reduction
system in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia,
Lithuania, Hungary, Malta,
and
Slovakia, in order to allow a smooth adaptation of the
new Member States to the system of keeping accounts
for the purpose of determining the incomes of agri-
cultural holdings, that is new for them.

Slovenia

Poland,

it

Whereas:

(5)

Regulation (EEC) No 1915/83 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

(1)

(2)

(3)

Pursuant to Article 5(1) of Commission Regulation (EEC)
No 1915/83 (2), the Commission shall pay a standard fee
to the Member State concerned in respect of each duly
completed farm return forwarded to it within the period
prescribed in Article 3 of that Regulation. For the sake of
clarity some provisions relating to those payments laid
down in Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1859/82 of
returning
12 July 1982 concerning the selection of
holdings for the purpose of determining incomes of agri-
cultural holdings (3) should also be included in Regulation
(EEC) No 1915/83.

reasons

financial
and
For budgetary
management,
farm returns
the maximum number of
per Member State to be paid should be limited to the
number indicated in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No
1859/82.

to facilitate

(6)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
the Community
accordance with the opinion of
Committee for the Farm Accountancy Data Network,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Article 5(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 1915/83 is replaced by the
following:

Some flexibility in the number of
farm returns per
division eligible for payment should be allowed, within
the maximum number of returning holdings per Member
State as laid down in Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No
1859/82 if the Member State concerned has more than
one division.

‘1.
The Commission shall pay a standard fee to the
Member States in respect of each duly completed farm
return forwarded to it within the period referred to in
Article 3.

(1) OJ 109, 23.6.1965, p. 1859/65. Regulation as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 660/2004 (OJ L 104, 8.4.2004,
p. 97).

(2) OJ L 190, 14.7.1983, p. 25. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1388/2004 (OJ L 255, 31.7.2004, p. 5).

(3) OJ L 205, 13.7.1982, p. 40. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 730/2004 (OJ L 113, 20.4.2004, p. 8).

The

1a.
total number per Member State of duly
completed and forwarded farm returns that is eligible for
the standard fee shall not be more than the total number
of returning holdings laid down for that Member State in
Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 1859/82.

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For Member States having more than one division,
number of duly completed and forwarded farm returns per
division that is eligible for the standard fee may be up to
20 % higher than the number laid down for the division
total number of duly
the
concerned, provided that
completed and forwarded farm returns of
the Member
State concerned shall not be higher than the total number
laid down for that Member State in Annex I to Regulation
(EEC) No 1859/82.

If the number of duly completed and forwarded farm returns
in respect of a division or a Member State is less than 80 %
of the number of returning holdings laid down for that
division or for the Member State concerned, the standard
fee for the farm returns from that division or from the
Member State concerned shall be reduced by:

— 20 % in the 2007 accounting year and the subsequent

accounting years.

If there is a shortfall for both a division and the Member
the reduction shall be applied only at
State concerned,
national level.

The reduction in respect of
the accounting year 2005
provided for in the first indent of the third subparagraph
shall not apply to the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus,
Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and
Slovakia’.

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.

— 10 % in the accounting years 2005 and 2006,

It shall apply from the 2005 accounting year.

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

Done at Brussels, 21 December 2004.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission