2005/410/EC: Commission Decision of 31 May 2005 authorising Spain to extend for three years the application of a temporary measure excluding from compensatory aid marketed produce of new banana plantations planted on or after 1 June 2002(notified under document number C(2005) 1605)
Date: 2005-05-31
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Canary Islands, EU aid, Spain, aid to agriculture, environmental protection, monetary compensatory amount, tropical fruit

2.6.2005

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 139/19

COMMISSION DECISION

of 31 May 2005

authorising Spain to extend for three years the application of a temporary measure excluding from
compensatory aid marketed produce of new banana plantations planted on or after 1 June 2002

(notified under document number C(2005) 1605)

(Only the Spanish text is authentic)

(2005/410/EC)

production areas,
in order to protect the environment,
particularly as regards the use of water resources, soil
stability and the socioeconomic balance, and conser-
vation of the characteristic features of the countryside.

Examination of Spain’s request to extend the measure
excluding produce from compensatory aid for a period
of three years shows that it complies with the aim and
the provisions of Article 12(9) of Regulation (EEC)
No 404/93. This request should therefore be accepted.

The measure provided for
accordance with the opinion of
Committee for Bananas,

in this Decision is

in
the Management

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Spain’s request to the Commission to extend,
for a further
three-year period, the measure excluding the produce of new
banana plantations planted on or after 1 June 2002 from the
compensatory aid referred to in Article 12(9) of Regulation
(EEC) No 404/93, authorised by Decision 2002/414/EC,
is
hereby accepted.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Spain.

Done at Brussels, 31 May 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 of
the
13 February 1993 on the common organisation of
in bananas (1), and in particular the second subpar-
market
agraph of Article 12(9) thereof,

Whereas:

(4)

(5)

(1)

(2)

(3)

authorised to introduce

Under Article 12(9) of Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 a
Member State may be
a
temporary measure whereby no compensatory aid is
paid for marketed produce of new banana plantations
when, in the Member State’s view, there is a risk to the
sustainable development of the production areas, with
particular reference to conservation of the environment,
and protection of the soil and the characteristic features
of the countryside.

By Decision 2002/414/EC (2), the Commission authorised
Spain to introduce a temporary measure excluding from
compensatory aid marketed produce of new banana
plantations planted on or after 1 June 2002 for a
period of three years.

to extend,

for a further three years,

On 15 April 2005, Spain requested the Commission to
the
authorise it
measure excluding the Canary Islands from compen-
satory aid for marketed produce of new banana plan-
tations planted on or after 1 June 2002. The reason
given for this request
is the need to consolidate the
positive effects of the application of the measure imple-
mented in June 2002, and in particular to discourage the
traditional
development of new plantations outside

(1) OJ L 47, 25.2.1993, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by the 2003

Act of Accession.

(2) OJ L 148, 6.6.2002, p. 28.