Commission Regulation (EC) No 550/2005 of 7 April 2005 amending Regulation (EC) No 416/2004 laying down transitional measures for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 and Regulation (EC) No 1535/2003 as regards the aid scheme for products processed from fruit and vegetables
Date: 2005-04-07
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: accession to the European Union, aid to agriculture, common organisation of markets, fruit vegetable, guarantee threshold, marketing year

12.4.2005

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 550/2005

of 7 April 2005

amending Regulation (EC) No 416/2004 laying down transitional measures for the application of
Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 and Regulation (EC) No 1535/2003 as regards the aid scheme
for products processed from fruit and vegetables

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

(4)

(5)

Regulation (EC) No 416/2004 should be amended as a
result.

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

Having regard to the Treaty of Accession of the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland,
Slovenia and Slovakia,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Act of Accession of the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland,
Slovenia and Slovakia and in particular the first paragraph of
Article 41 thereof,

Whereas:

3(1)

establishes

Regulation

Commission

the accession of

of
416/2004 (1), which

(EC)
Article
No
transitional
measures by virtue of
the Czech
Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary,
(hereinafter
Malta,
referred to as the new Member States), provides for the
payment of an additional amount when an examination
of compliance with the threshold for fixing the aid for
the 2005/06 marketing year shows that the Community
threshold has not been exceeded.

Slovenia

Slovakia

Poland,

and

by

Regulation

established

Commission

As
(EC)
No 170/2005 of 31 January 2005 fixing the aid for
tomatoes for processing for the 2005/2006 marketing
year (2), the quantities of tomatoes in respect of which
aid applications have been lodged for the 2004/2005
marketing year in the new Member States fall within
their national and Community thresholds for tomato
processing, based on the quantities for which aid appli-
cations have been lodged for 2004/2005.

(1)

(2)

(3)

Article 1

Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 416/2004 is replaced by the
following:

‘Article 3

the purpose of

fixing the aid for

1. Where the examination of compliance with the
threshold for
the
2005/2006 marketing year shows that
the Community
threshold has not been exceeded, an additional amount
equal to 25 % of the aid provided for in Article 4(2) of
Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 shall be paid in all the new
Member States after the 2004/2005 marketing year, except
in the case of tomatoes for which the additional amount
shall be paid once it has been established that the new
Member States have observed their national thresholds.

the purpose of

fixing the aid for

2. Where the examination of compliance with the
threshold for
the
2005/2006 marketing year shows that
the Community
threshold has been exceeded, in those new Member States
in which the threshold has not been exceeded or in which
the threshold has been exceeded by less than 25 % an addi-
tional amount shall be paid after the end of the 2004/2005
marketing year, except in the case of tomatoes for which
the additional amount shall be paid once it has been estab-
the new Member States have observed their
lished that
national thresholds.

Having noted that the new Member States have complied
with their national thresholds, there are no grounds for
delaying payment of the additional amount provided for
in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 416/2004, since
precautionary measures are no longer necessary. This
payment should therefore proceed.

The additional amount referred to in the first subparagraph
shall be based on the actual amount by which the national
threshold concerned has been exceeded, up to a maximum
of 25 % of the aid laid down in Article 4(2) of Regulation
(EC) No 2201/96.’

Article 2

(1) OJ L 68, 5.3.2004, p. 12.
(2) OJ L 28, 1.2.2005, p. 29.

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

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

Done at Brussels, 7 April 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission