Commission Regulation (EC) No 1607/2005 of 30 September 2005 amending Regulation (EC) No 296/96 on data to be transmitted by the Member States and the monthly booking of expenditure financed under the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural and Guidance Fund (EAGGF)
Date: 2005-09-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EAGGF Guarantee Section, accounting entry, agricultural expenditure, exchange of information

L 256/12

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

1.10.2005

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1607/2005

of 30 September 2005

amending Regulation (EC) No 296/96 on data to be transmitted by the Member States and the
monthly booking of expenditure financed under the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural
and Guidance Fund (EAGGF)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

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 (5) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 296/96 (2)
provides that the Commission is to place at the disposal
of
the
the Member States, within the framework of
budget appropriations, the funds needed to cover expen-
diture to be financed by the Guarantee Section of the
European Agricultural and Guidance Fund.

Article 7(1) of Regulation (EC) No 296/96 provides that
expenditure declared in respect of a given month must in
general fall within payments and receipts effected during
this month. Some exceptions
to that principle are
provided for.

To ensure the respect of the budget and to the extent
necessary to comply with the provisions of Article 1 of
Regulation (EC) No 296/96,
it should be possible for
Member States to adjust expenditure declarations other
than those for measures covered by Council Regulation

(EC) No 1257/1999 of 17 May 1999 on support for
from the European Agricultural
rural development
and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) (3)
and to
Guidance
declare expenditure in respect of the following month.

Regulation (EC) No 296/96 should therefore be amended
accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of the Committee for the
European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund,

(4)

(5)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

In the first subparagraph of Article 7 (1) of Regulation (EC)
No 296/96, the following point is added:

‘(d) expenditure effected by Member States from 1 to 15
October 2005, other than for measures covered by
Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 (*), may,
if
necessary to comply with the provisions of Article 1,
the month following the
be declared in respect of
month of payment to the beneficiary.

___________
(*) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 80.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh 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, 30 September 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 103.
(2) OJ L 39, 17.2.1996, p. 5. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 605/2005 (OJ L 100, 20.4.2005, p. 11).

(3) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 80. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 2223/2004 (OJ L 379, 24.12.2004, p. 1).