2005/127/EC: Commission Decision of 11 February 2005 on the clearance of the accounts of certain paying agencies in Belgium, Spain and Greece in respect of expenditure financed by the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), Guarantee Section, for the 2001 financial year (notified under document number C(2005) 295)
Date: 2005-02-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Belgium, EAGGF Guarantee Section, Greece, Spain, closing of accounts, financial year

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(Acts whose publication is not obligatory)

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 11 February 2005

on the clearance of the accounts of certain paying agencies in Belgium, Spain and Greece in respect
of expenditure financed by the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF),
Guarantee Section, for the 2001 financial year

(notified under document number C(2005) 295)

(Only the Dutch, French, Greek and Spanish texts are authentic)

(2005/127/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(2)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999 of
17 May 1999 on the financing of the common agricultural
policy (1), and in particular Article 7(3) thereof,

(3)

After consulting the Fund Committee,

Whereas:

(4)

(1)

Commission Decision 2002/461/EC of 12 June 2002 on
the clearance of the accounts of Member States' expen-
diture financed by the European Agricultural Guidance
and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), Guarantee Section,
for
the 2001 financial year (2) cleared the accounts of all
the Belgian agency
the paying agencies except
‘Betaalorgaan van de Vlaamse Gemeenschap’,
the
Spanish FEGA and Basque Country paying agencies,
and the Greek paying agencies.

for

Following the transmission of new information by
Belgium, Spain and Greece, and after additional checks,
the Commission can now take a decision on the veracity,
completeness, and accuracy of the accounts submitted by
the paying agencies concerned.

the Belgian, Spanish and
In clearing the accounts of
the Commission
Greek paying agencies
must
the amounts already paid to
take account of
Belgium and withheld from Spain and Greece on the
basis of Decision 2002/461/EC. Accordingly,
this
Decision has no financial consequences.

concerned,

In accordance with Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC)
No 1258/1999 and Article 7(1) of Commission Regu-
lation (EC) No 1663/95 of 7 July 1995 laying down
detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation
the
(EEC) No 729/70 regarding the procedure for
clearance of
the EAGGF Guarantee
Section (3),
this Decision, adopted on the basis of
accounting information, does not prejudice decisions
taken subsequently by the Commission excluding from
Community
effected in
financing
accordance with Community rules,

expenditure not

the accounts of

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 103.
(2) OJ L 160, 18.6.2002, p. 28.

(3) OJ L 158, 8.7.1995, p. 6. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 2025/2001 (OJ L 274, 17.10.2001, p. 3).

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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 2

Article 1

This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium, the
Kingdom of Spain and the Hellenic Republic.

The accounts of the Belgian paying agency ‘Betaalorgaan van de
Vlaamse Gemeenschap’, the Spanish FEGA and Basque Country
paying agencies, and the Greek paying agencies GEDIDAGEP/
OPEKEPE concerning expenditure financed by the EAGGF
Guarantee Section for
the 2001 financial year are hereby
cleared.

The amounts which are recoverable from, or payable to, each
Member State in accordance with this Decision are set out in
the Annex.

Done at Brussels, 11 February 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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