Commission Regulation (EC) No 126/2005 of 27 January 2005 fixing the ceilings on financing for measures to improve the quality of the olive oil production in the 2005/06 production cycle and derogating from Article 3(3) of Regulation (EC) No 528/1999
Date: 2005-01-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: derogation from EU law, olive oil, olive-growing, product quality, production aid, production improvement

28.1.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 25/11

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 126/2005

of 27 January 2005

fixing the ceilings on financing for measures to improve the quality of the olive oil production in
the 2005/06 production cycle and derogating from Article 3(3) of Regulation (EC) No 528/1999

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Regulation (EC) No 528/1999 for some Member States
may therefore prove to be too low. Appropriate limits
should therefore be established in those cases.

Having regard to Council Regulation No 136/66/EEC of 22
September 1966 on the establishment of a common organi-
sation of the market in oils and fats (1),

(5)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Oils and Fats,

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 528/1999 of
10 March 1999, laying down measures to improve the quality
of olive oil production (2), and in particular Article 3(2) thereof,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 528/1999 lays down,
for each
Member State and for each 12 month production cycle
beginning on 1 May,
the financial arrangements for
measures to improve the quality of olive-oil production
and its environmental impact.

corresponds

including the estimated production of

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1807/2004 (3) fixes for
the 2003/04 marketing year the estimated production of
table
olive oil,
olives expressed as olive oil equivalent, at 2 714 450
tonnes. This
for
Greece, 1 591 330 tonnes for Spain, 3 335 tonnes for
France, 741 956 tonnes for Italy and 34 473 tonnes for
Portugal. The amount withheld from production aid for
this olive oil marketing year serves as the basis for
financing measures to improve the quality of oil during
the production cycle commencing on 1 May 2004.

to 343 356 tonnes

The financial ceilings for the measures that are eligible
for reimbursement from the Guarantee Section of the
European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund
should be fixed.

As the measures have relatively fixed minimum costs, the
ceilings on total financing laid down in Article 3(3) of

For the production cycle from 1 May 2005 to 30 April 2006,
the ceilings on financing for the measures laid down in the first
subparagraph of Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 528/1999
shall be:

Greece

Spain

France

Italy

Portugal

EUR 6 331 014

EUR 11 099 557

EUR 60 804

EUR 0

EUR 644 052

Article 2

Notwithstanding Article 3(3) of Regulation (EC) No 528/1999,
the additional national
financial contribution from Member
States, whose ceiling on financing laid down in Article 1 is
EUR 100 000 or less, shall be no more than EUR 250 000.

Article 3

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

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

Done at Brussels, 27 January 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ 172, 30.9.1966, p. 3025/66. Regulation as last amended by

Regulation (EC) No 865/2004 (OJ L 161, 30.4.2004, p. 97).

(2) OJ L 62, 11.3.1999, p. 8. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 629/2003 (OJ L 92, 9.4.2003, p. 3).

(3) OJ L 318, 19.10.2004, p. 13.