Commission Regulation (EC) No 222/2005 of 10 February 2005 amending Regulation (EC) No 1943/2003 as regards the exchange rate applicable for the implementation of aid to producer groups granted preliminary recognition in the fruit and vegetable sector
Date: 2005-02-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aid system, aid to agriculture, exchange rate, non-participating country (euro area), producer organisation, production aid

11.2.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 39/17

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 222/2005

of 10 February 2005

amending Regulation (EC) No 1943/2003 as regards the exchange rate applicable for the
implementation of aid to producer groups granted preliminary recognition in the fruit and
vegetable sector

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 of 28
October 1996 on the common organisation of the market in
fruit and vegetables (1), and in particular Article 48 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

Article 3(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No
1943/2003 of 3 November 2003 laying down rules
the application of Council Regulation (EC) No
for
2200/96 as regards aid to producer groups granted preli-
minary recognition (2) sets the calculation parameters and
the ceilings for the aid provided for in Article 14(2)(a) of
Regulation (EC) No 2200/96. These parameters and
ceilings are not prices or amounts which are either
granted or collected. Articles 2 and 3 of Council Regu-
lation (EC) No 2799/98 of 15 December 1998 estab-
lishing agrimonetary arrangements for the euro (3) do
not, therefore, apply to them.

1943/2003. To express them in the national currencies
the non-participating Member States within the
of
meaning of Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 2799/98,
the exchange rates in force on the first day of
the
period for which the aid is granted should be used.

(3)

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 1943/2003 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The following paragraph 3 is hereby added to Article 3 of
Regulation (EC) No 1943/2003:

‘3.
The exchange rate applicable to the amounts in euro
referred to in paragraph 2 shall be the rate most recently
published by the European Central Bank prior to the first day
of the period for which the aid in question is granted.’

Article 2

(2)

These parameters and ceilings apply to each of the aid
instalments referred to in point (d) of the first subpa-
ragraph of Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No

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

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

Done at Brussels, 10 February 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 47/2003 (OJ L 7, 11.1.2003,
p. 64).

(2) OJ L 286, 4.11.2003, p. 5. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 2113/2004 (OJ L 366, 11.12.2004, p. 10).

(3) OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 1.