2005/715/EC: Commission Decision of 10 October 2005 fixing, for the 2005 financial year and in respect of a certain number of hectares, the definitive financial allocations by Member State for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards under Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 (notified under document number C(2005) 3737)
Date: 2005-10-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, aid per hectare, common organisation of markets, policy on agricultural structures, redevelopment aid, redirection of production, vineyard, viticulture

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 10 October 2005

fixing, for the 2005 financial year and in respect of a certain number of hectares, the definitive
financial allocations by Member State for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards under
Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999

(notified under document number C(2005) 3737)

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

(2005/715/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of
in
wine (1), and in particular Article 14(2) thereof,

the market

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

for
are

the restructuring and conversion of
The rules
laid down in Regulation (EC) No
vineyards
1493/1999 and Commission Regulation (EC) No
1227/2000 of 31 May 2000 laying down detailed
rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No
1493/1999 on the common organisation of the market
in wine, as regards production potential (2).

The detailed rules on financial planning and participation
in financing the restructuring and conversion scheme laid
down in Regulation (EC) No 1227/2000 stipulate that
the references to a given financial year refer to the
payments actually made by the Member States between
16 October and the following 15 October.

(3)

In accordance with Article 14(1) of Regulation (EC) No
1493/1999, the Commission makes initial allocations to

(1) OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by the 2003

Act of Accession.

Member States each year on the basis of objective
criteria,
taking into account particular situations and
needs and the efforts to be undertaken in the light of
the objective of the scheme.

The Commission fixed the indicative financial allocations
for 2004/05 in Decision 2004/687/EC (3).

Under Article 17(1) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No
1227/2000, expenditure incurred and validated by the
Member States is limited to the amount allocated to
them as laid down in Decision 2004/687/EC. This limit
does not apply in 2005 to any Member State.

Under Article 17(4), a penalty is applied where the actual
per hectare expenditure of a Member State exceeds that
laid down in Decision 2004/687/EC. This year, a penalty
of EUR 289 applies to Luxembourg.

Under Article 16(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 1227/2000,
in the
Member States may submit a further request
current
Italy,
Austria and Portugal have done so.

financial year. Germany, Spain, France,

Under Article 17(9) of Regulation (EC) No 1227/2000,
Member States for which 2005 is the first year of imple-
mentation of the restructuring and conversion scheme
financing within
may submit a request
for additional
the limit of 90 % of
the financial allocation made
to them under Decision 2004/687/EC. The Czech
Republic, Hungary, Malta and Slovakia have done so.

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(2) OJ L 143, 16.6.2000, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1216/2005 (OJ L 199, 29.7.2005, p. 32).

(3) OJ L 313, 12.10.2004, p. 23.

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(9)

Under Article 17(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1227/2000,
requests submitted under Article 16(1)(c) of that Regu-
lation are accepted on a pro rata basis for those Member
States that have spent their initial allocation, using the
appropriations available after deducting for all Member
States the amounts notified in accordance with Article
16(1)(a) and (b) and corrected, where appropriate, under
Article 17(1) and (3), and the amounts notified and
accepted under Article 17(9) of that Regulation, from
the total amount allocated to the Member States. This
provision applies in 2005 to Germany, Spain, France,
Italy, Austria and Portugal,

lation (EC) No 1493/1999, for the period in the 2005 financial
year, shall be as set out in the Annex to this Decision.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Czech Republic, the Federal
Republic of Germany, the Hellenic Republic, the Kingdom of
Spain, the French Republic, the Italian Republic, the Republic of
Cyprus,
the Republic of
Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Austria, the
Portuguese Republic, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak
Republic.

the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The definitive financial allocations to the Member States for the
2004/05 wine year, in respect of a certain number of hectares,
for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards under Regu-

Done at Brussels, 10 October 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

Definitive financial allocations for the 2004/05 marketing year (2005 financial year)

Member State

Czech Republic

Germany

Greece

Spain

France

Italy

Cyprus

Luxembourg

Hungary

Malta

Austria

Portugal

Slovenia

Slovakia

Area
(ha)

84

1 975

988

19 888

13 691

14 633

193

10

1 132

15

1 275

7 153

172

221

Total

61 429

Financial allocation
(EUR)

772 352

12 695 680

7 047 724

149 316 032

108 227 509

103 757 903

2 340 941

83 200

9 054 545

154 474

7 248 066

45 588 331

2 913 565

799 448

449 999 711