Commission Regulation (EC) No 681/2005 of 29 April 2005 amending Regulation (EC) No 1973/2004, as regards the conditions for receiving area payments for flax grown for fibre
Date: 2005-04-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU aid, aid per hectare, flax

30.4.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 110/21

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 681/2005

of 29 April 2005

amending Regulation (EC) No 1973/2004, as regards the conditions for receiving area payments for
flax grown for fibre

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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
certain support schemes for farmers and amending Regulations
(EEC) No 2019/93, (EC) No 1452/2001, (EC) No 1453/2001,
(EC) No 1454/2001, (EC) 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 point (iii) of the first
indent of the second paragraph of Article 110 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1973/2004 of 29
October 2004 laying down detailed rules for the appli-
cation of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 as
regards the support schemes provided for in Titles IV
land set
and IVa of
aside for the production of raw materials (2), provides,
inter alia, for the conditions for the area payments for
flax grown for fibre.

that Regulation and the use of

According to Article 56(1)(b)(i) of Regulation (EC) No
1973/2004, the use of seed varieties listed in Annex V
to that Regulation is a condition for receiving area
payments for flax grown for fibre. However,
in the
framework for coupled payments established by Regu-
lation (EC) No 1782/2003, this eligibility condition is
not
for
coupled payments for flax and for other arable crops is
the same. In the decoupled system there is no provision

amount per hectare

justified because

the

which refers to the variety list for flax. With a view to
simplification,
it is therefore appropriate to repeal this
condition.

(3)

(4)

(5)

Regulation (EC) No 1973/2004 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

Since Regulation (EC) No 1973/2004 applies to aid
applications relating to marketing years starting from 1
January 2005, this Regulation should apply 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 1973/2004 is amended as follows:

1.

in Article 56(1)(b), point (i) is deleted;

2. Annex V is deleted.

Article 2

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

Journal of

It shall apply to aid applications relating to marketing years
starting from 1 January 2005.

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

Done at Brussels, 29 April 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(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 345, 20.11.2004, p. 1.