2005/716/EC: Commission Decision of 10 October 2005 fixing, for the 2005/06 marketing year and in respect of a certain number of hectares, an indicative financial allocation by Member State for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards under Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 (notified under document number C(2005) 3738)
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 DECISION

of 10 October 2005

fixing, for the 2005/06 marketing year and in respect of a certain number of hectares, an indicative
financial allocation by Member State for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards under
Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999

(notified under document number C(2005) 3738)

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

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(5)

(2005/716/EC)

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 the market in
wine (1), and in particular Article 14(1) thereof,

Whereas:

(6)

(7)

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

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.

In accordance with Article 14(3) of Regulation (EC) No
the financial allocation between Member
1493/1999,
States must take due account of the proportion of the
Community
State
concerned.

in the Member

vineyard

area

For the purposes of implementing Article 14(4) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1493/1999,
the financial allocations
should be made in respect of a certain number of
hectares.

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

Act of Accession.

Under Article 13(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999,
the Community contribution to the costs of restructuring
and conversion is higher in regions classified as Objective
1 in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No
1260/1999 of 21 June 1999 laying down general
provisions on the Structural Funds (3).

Account must be taken of the compensation for the loss
income incurred by the wine growers during the
of
period when the vineyard is not yet in production.

the initial allocation,

In accordance with Article 17(5) of Regulation (EC) No
1227/2000, where expenditure actually incurred by a
Member State in a given financial year is less than
75 % of
the expenditure to be
recognised for the following financial year, and the corre-
sponding total area, are to be reduced by a third of the
difference between this threshold and the actual expen-
diture incurred during the financial year in question. This
provision applies in the 2005/06 wine year to Greece,
whose expenditure in respect of 2005 amounts
to
its initial allocation, and to Luxembourg,
72,63 % of
whose expenditure amounts to 74,54 % of its initial allo-
cation. This provision does not apply to Member States
which took part for the first time in the restructuring and
conversion scheme during the 2004/05 wine year, under
Article 17(9) of Regulation (EC) No 1227/2000.

(8)

In accordance with Article 14(2) of Regulation (EC) No
1493/1999, the initial allocation is adapted in view of
real expenditure and on the basis of revised expenditure
forecasts submitted by the Member States, taking account
of the objective of the scheme and subject to the funds
available,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The financial allocations by Member State,
in respect of a
certain number of hectares, for the restructuring and conversion
of vineyards under Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 for the
2005/06 marketing year shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.

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

(3) OJ L 161, 26.6.1999, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

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

lation (EC) No 173/2005 (OJ L 29, 2.2.2005, p. 3).

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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 Grand Duchy
of Luxembourg, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Austria, the Portuguese
Republic, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic.

Done at Brussels, 10 October 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

Indicative financial allocations for 2005/06

Member State

Czech Republic

Germany

Greece

Spain

France

Italy

Cyprus

Luxembourg

Hungary

Malta

Austria

Portugal

Slovenia

Slovakia

Area
(ha)

526

1 998

1 249

21 131

11 380

13 874

206

10

1 331

23

1 077

5 747

153

299

Financial allocation
(EUR)

1 821 677

12 468 667

8 574 504

151 508 106

106 286 269

99 743 891

2 378 971

76 000

10 645 176

119 973

6 574 057

44 975 908

2 336 740

2 490 063

Total

59 002

450 000 000