Commission Regulation (EC) No 551/2005 of 11 April 2005 setting the additional amount to be paid for tomatoes in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Malta, Poland and Slovakia under Regulation (EC) No 416/2004
Date: 2005-04-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Czechia, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovakia, aid to agriculture, fruit vegetable, regulation of agricultural production

12.4.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 93/5

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 551/2005

of 11 April 2005

setting the additional amount to be paid for tomatoes in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Malta,
Poland and Slovakia under Regulation (EC) No 416/2004

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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

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

(2)

(3)

Having regard to Commission Regulation (EC) No 416/2004 of
5 March 2004 laying down transitional measures for the appli-
cation of Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 and Regulation
(EC) No 1535/2003 by reason of the accession of the Czech
Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta,
Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia to the European Union (1), and
in particular Article 3(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

The quantities of tomatoes covered by aid applications
the 2004/2005 marketing years as notified by
for
in accordance with Article 39(2) of
Member States,
of
1535/2003
Commission Regulation
29 August 2003 laying down detailed rules
for
applying Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 as
regards the aid scheme for products processed from
the
Community
exceed
fruit
is therefore to be
threshold by 1,5 %. A supplement

vegetables (2),

(EC) No

and

paid during of the marketing year 2004/2005 in the
Member States who joined the European Union on 1
exceeded their national
May 2004 and have not
threshold or in which the threshold has been exceeded
by less than 25 %.

the marketing

year 2004/2005 the national
For
thresholds
in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Malta,
Poland and Slovakia have not been overrun. The full
aid supplement of EUR 8,62 per tonne should therefore
be paid in those countries.

For the marketing year 2004/2005, producers in Cyprus
have not submitted any application for aid for tomatoes
for the
for processing. Therefore no aid supplement
marketing year 2004/2005 should be paid in that
Member State,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The additional amount of EUR 8,62 per tonne of tomatoes for
processing referred to in Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC)
No 416/2004 shall be paid during the 2004/2005 marketing
year
in the Czech Republic, Hungary, Malta, Poland and
Slovakia.

Article 2

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, 11 April 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 68, 6.3.2004, p. 12.
(2) OJ L 218, 30.8.2003, p. 14. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 180/2005 (OJ L 30, 3.2.2005, p. 7).