2005/320/EC: Commission Decision of 21 April 2005 on the clearance of the accounts of certain paying agencies in Germany, Spain, Greece, France, Italy, Portugal and the United Kingdom in respect of expenditure financed by the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), Guarantee Section, for the 2002 financial year (notified under document number C(2005) 1210)
Date: 2005-04-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EAGGF Guarantee Section, France, Germany, Greece, Italy, Portugal, Spain, United Kingdom, closing of accounts, financial year

22.4.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 103/39

COMMISSION DECISION

of 21 April 2005

on the clearance of the accounts of certain paying agencies in Germany, Spain, Greece, France, Italy,
Portugal and the United Kingdom in respect of expenditure financed by the European Agricultural
Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), Guarantee Section, for the 2002 financial year

(notified under document number C(2005) 1210)

(Only the English, French, German, Greek, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish texts are authentic)

(2005/320/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

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,

After consulting the Fund Committee,

Whereas:

Commission Decision 2003/313/EC of 7 May 2003 on
the clearance of the accounts of Member States’ expen-
diture financed by the European Agricultural Guidance
for
and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), Guarantee Section,
the 2002 financial year (2) cleared the accounts of all
the German paying
the paying agencies except
agencies Baden-Württemberg and Bayern-Umwelt,
the
Spanish paying agencies Balearic Islands and Rioja, the
Greek paying agency Opekepe,
the French paying
agencies
SDE, Ofival, ONIC, Oniflhor, Onilait,
Odeadom, FIRS and Onivins, the Italian paying agencies
ARTEA and Lombardy,
the Portuguese paying agency
Ifadap and the United Kingdom paying agency NAWAD.

for

Following the transmission of new information by
Germany, Spain, Greece, France, Italy, Portugal and the
the
United Kingdom,
Commission can now take a decision on the veracity,
completeness, and accuracy of the accounts submitted
by the paying agencies concerned.

and after

additional

checks,

(1)

(2)

(3)

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
(EEC)
No 729/70 regarding the procedure for the clearance of
the accounts of the EAGGF Guarantee Section (3), this
Decision, adopted on the basis of accounting infor-
mation, does not prejudice decisions taken subsequently
by
from Community
financing expenditure not effected in accordance with
Community rules,

the Commission

excluding

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

the German paying agencies Baden-Würt-
The accounts of
temberg and Bayern-Umwelt,
the Spanish paying agencies
Balearic Islands and Rioja, the Greek paying agency Opekepe,
the French paying agencies SDE, Ofival, ONIC, Oniflhor, Onilait,
Odeadom, FIRS and Onivins, the Italian paying agencies ARTEA
and Lombardy, the Portuguese paying agency Ifadap, and the
UK paying agency NAWAD concerning expenditure financed by
the EAGGF Guarantee Section for the 2002 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.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of Germany,
the Hellenic Republic,
the French
Republic,
the Portuguese Republic and
the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

the Kingdom of Spain,

the Italian Republic,

In clearing the accounts of the German, Spanish, Greek,
French,
Italian, Portuguese and British paying agencies
concerned, the Commission must take account of the
amounts already paid to Italy and the United Kingdom
and withheld from Germany, Spain, Greece, France, Italy
and Portugal on the basis of Decision 2003/313/EC.

Done at Brussels, 21 April 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 103.
(2) OJ L 114, 8.5.2003, p. 55.

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

(EC) No 465/2005 (OJ L 77, 23.3.2005, p. 6).

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Official Journal of the European Union

22.4.2005

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