Commission Regulation (EC) No 606/2005 of 19 April 2005 amending Regulation (EC) No 795/2004 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of the single payment scheme provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers
Date: 2005-04-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural product, aid system, common agricultural policy, farmers' income, production aid

20.4.2005

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 606/2005

of 19 April 2005

amending Regulation (EC) No 795/2004 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of the
single payment scheme provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 establishing
common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing
certain support schemes for farmers

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

support

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 of
29 September 2003 establishing common rules for direct
support schemes under the common agricultural policy and
establishing
and
(EC) No
amending
1452/2001,
(EC)
No 1868/94, (EC) No 1251/1999, (EC) No 1254/1999, (EC)
No 1673/2000, (EEC) No 2358/71 and (EC) No 2529/2001 (1),
and in particular the second subparagraph of Article 51(b) and
Article 145(c) and (d) thereof,

certain
Regulations
(EC) No 1453/2001,

(EC) No 1454/2001,

for
2019/93,

(EEC) No

schemes

farmers

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 795/2004 (2) introduces
the implementing rules for the single payment scheme as
from 2005. Experience of the administrative and opera-
tional
level
implementation of that scheme at national
has shown that in certain respects further detailed rules
are needed and in other respects the existing rules need
to be clarified and adapted.

Article 24(2) of Regulation (EC) No 795/2004 provides
that the beginning of the 10 month period referred to in
Article 44(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 for each
individual farmer is to be fixed by Member States at a
fixed between
single date within a period to be
1 September of the calendar year preceding the year of
lodging an application under the single payment scheme
and 30 April of the following calendar year or is to be
left at the farmer’s choice within the fixed period. It is
appropriate to allow farmers more flexibility for the
fixing of the beginning of the 10 month period at the
level of each parcel when specific agriculture conditions
so warrant.

from 1 January 2005 by
and made applicable as
Commission Regulation (EC) No 394/2005, authorises
Member States to allow secondary crops to be cultivated
on the eligible hectares during a period of maximum
three months starting each year on 15 August.
is
appropriate to bring forward that date to allow the
growing of temporary vegetable crops in regions where
cereals are usually harvested sooner for climatic reasons
as communicated by the Member States concerned to the
Commission.

It

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 795/2004 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

(5)

(6)

that Regulation (EC) No 795/2004
Due to the fact
applies as from 1 January 2005,
it is appropriate that
the provisions provided for in this Regulation apply
retroactively from that date.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Direct Payments,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 795/2004 is amended as follows:

1.

in Article 24(2) the following subparagraph is added:

(3)

Article 51 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003,
as
amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 864/2004 (3)

(1) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 1. Regulation last

amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 118/2005 (OJ L 24, 27.1.2005,
p. 15).

(2) OJ L 141, 30.4.2004, p. 1. Regulation last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 394/2005 (OJ L 63, 10.3.2005, p. 17).

(3) OJ L 161, 30.4.2004, p. 48.

‘However, where specific agricultural conditions so warrant,
Member States may authorise farmers to fix, within the fixed
period referred to in the first subparagraph, two different
dates for the beginning of the 10 month period in respect
of their holding. Farmers who make use of this possibility
indicate their choices in respect of each individual
shall
parcel
in their single application form in addition to the
information to be given by them in accordance with
Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 796/2004.’

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2. the following Article 28a is inserted:

3. an Annex as set out in the Annex to this Regulation is

added.

‘Article 28a

Three months period provided for in Article 51(b) of
Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003

The Member States indicated in the Annex are authorised to
allow secondary crops to be cultivated on the eligible
hectares during a period of maximum three months
starting each year on the date laid down in that Annex for
each Member State.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publi-
cation in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 January 2005.

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

Done at Brussels, 19 April 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

ANNEX

‘ANNEX

Member State

Date

Portugal

Germany

Austria

Denmark

Italy

1 March

15 July

30 June

15 July

11 June’