2005/443/EC: Commission Decision of 14 June 2005 on the payment in euro by the United Kingdom of certain expenditure resulting from legal instruments relating to the common agricultural policy (notified under document number C(2005) 1730)
Date: 2005-02-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: United Kingdom, agricultural expenditure, aid to agriculture, common agricultural policy, euro, national currency

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 14 June 2005

on the payment in euro by the United Kingdom of certain expenditure resulting from legal
instruments relating to the common agricultural policy

(notified under document number C(2005) 1730)

(Only the English text is authentic)

(2005/443/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

On 14 April 2005, the United Kingdom informed the
Commission of
its intention to amend the measures
approved by Decision 2001/121/EC and communicated
the new measures it contemplated taking to prevent any
systematic advantage resulting from the use of the euro
rather than the pound sterling. That communication was
received on 14 April 2005.

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2799/98 of
15 December 1998 establishing agrimonetary arrangements
for the euro (1),

(4)

The measures planned by the United Kingdom can be
summarised as follows:

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 2808/98 of
22 December 1998 laying down detailed rules for the appli-
cation of the agrimonetary system for the euro in agriculture (2),
and in particular Article 12(4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Article 8 of Regulation (EC) No 2799/98 requires non-
participating Member States that contemplate paying
expenditure resulting from legal instruments relating to
the common agricultural policy in euro to take measures
to ensure that the use of the euro does not provide a
systematic advantage compared with the use of national
currency.

Commission Decision 2001/121/EC of 30 January 2001
in euro by the United Kingdom of
on the payment
instruments
certain expenditure resulting from legal
and
common agricultural policy
relating
repealing Decision 2000/121/EC (3)
such
approved
measures communicated by the United Kingdom.

to the

— operators may be paid in euro the amounts laid

down in Community legislation,

— operators shall bear the full exchange-rate risk arising

from subsequent conversion into sterling,

— operators must make a standing commitment for a

minimum of one year,

— concerning the single payment and other direct
payments as referred to in Council Regulation (EC)
No 1782/2003 of 29 September 2003 establishing
common rules for direct support schemes under the
common agricultural policy and establishing certain
support schemes for farmers and amending Regu-
(EC) No and amending
lations (EEC) No 2019/93,
No
2019/93,
Regulations
(EC)
1452/2001,
(EC) No
1453/2001,
1454/2001, 1868/94, (EC) No 1251/1999, (EC) No
1254/1999, (EC) No 1673/2000, (EEC) No 2358/71
and (EC) No 2529/2001 (4), operators shall opt for
payment in euro when they submit the single appli-
cation as referred to in Article 11 (2) of Commission

(EEC)
(EC) No

No

(1) OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 36. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1250/2004 (OJ L 237, 8.7.2004, p. 13).

(3) OJ L 44, 15.2.2001, p. 43.

(4) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 118/2005 (OJ L 24, 27.1.2005,
p. 15).

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Regulation (EC) No 796/2004 of 21 April 2004
laying down detailed rules for the implementation
of cross-compliance, modulation and the integrated
administration and control system provided for in
of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 estab-
lishing common rules for direct support schemes
under the common agricultural policy and estab-
lishing certain support schemes for farmers (1),

— concerning market support measures, operators must
apply three months in advance of the operative event
to be paid in euro; three months in advance of the
operative
also be given to
withdraw from the arrangement; new payments in
euro are then only possible after a one-year waiting
period.

event notice must

Those measures are in line with the objective fixed by
Regulation (EC) No 2799/98, namely to prevent a
systematic advantage resulting from the use of the euro
rather than the national currency. They should therefore
be approved.

that

For
repealed and replaced by this Decision,

reason, Decision 2001/121/EC should be

(5)

(6)

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The measures communicated by the United Kingdom on
14 April 2005 concerning the payment in euro of expenditure
resulting from legal instruments relating to the common agri-
cultural policy listed in the Annex are hereby approved.

Article 2

Decision 2001/121/EC is repealed.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the United Kingdom of Great
Britain and Northern Ireland.

Done at Brussels, 14 June 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 141, 30.4.2004, p. 18. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 436/2005 (OJ L 72, 18.3.2005, p. 4).

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ANNEX

Measures expressed and payable in euro

Scheme

Regulations

Single payment and other direct payments

Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003

Export refunds

Buying-in of beef

Commission Regulation (EC) No 800/1999 (1)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 562/2000 (2)

Private storage aid for Beef

Commission Regulation (EC) No 907/2000 (3)

Private storage aid for pigmeat

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3444/90 (4)

Private storage aid for sheepmeat

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3446/90 (5)

Buying-in of butter

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2771/1999 (6)

Private storage aid for butter and cream

Regulation (EC) No 2771/1999

Aid for butter supplied to non-profit-making organisations

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2191/81 (7)

Aid for butter manufacturing

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2571/97 (8)

Aid for concentrated butter for cooking

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 429/90 (9)

Aid for skimmed milk used in the manufacture of Casein
and caseinates

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2921/90 (10)

Community aid for
products to pupils in educational establishments

supplying milk and certain milk

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2707/2000 (11)

Buying-in of skimmed-milk powder

Commission Regulation (EC) No 214/2001 (12)

Aid for skimmed-milk powder used for animal feed

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2799/1999 (13)

Buying-in of cereals

Commission Regulation (EC) No 824/2000 (14)

Starch end-user refund

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1722/93 (15)

_____________
(1) OJ L 102, 17.4.1999, p. 11.
(2) OJ L 68, 16.3.2000, p. 22.
(3) OJ L 105, 3.5.2000, p. 6.
(4) OJ L 333, 30.11.1990, p. 22.
(5) OJ L 333, 30.11.1990, p. 39.
(6) OJ L 333, 24.12.1999, p. 11.
(7) OJ L 213, 1.8.1981, p. 20.
(8) OJ L 350, 20.12.1997, p. 3.
(9) OJ L 45, 21.2.1990, p. 8.
(10) OJ L 279, 11.10.1990, p. 22.
(11) OJ L 311, 12.2.2000, p. 37.
(12) OJ L 37, 7.2.2001, p. 100.
(13) OJ L 340, 31.12.1999, p. 3.
(14) OJ L 100, 20.4.2000, p. 31.
(15) OJ L 159, 1.7.1993, p. 112.

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Scheme

Whisky refunds

Regulations

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2825/93 (16)

Aid for dried fodder

Commission Regulation (EC) No 382/2005 (17)

Aid for the use of grape must

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1623/2000 (18)

Aid for sugar in the chemical industry

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1265/2001 (19)

Aid for refining preferential raw cane sugar

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1646/2001 (20)

Dairy promotion

Commission Regulation (EC) No 94/2002 (21)

(16) OJ L 258, 16.10.1993, p. 6.
(17) OJ L 61, 8.3.2005, p. 4.
(18) OJ L 194, 31.7.2000, p. 45.
(19) OJ L 178, 30.6.2001, p. 63.
(20) OJ L 219, 14.8.2001, p. 14.
(21) OJ L 17, 19.1.2002, p. 20.