Commission Regulation (EC) No 1819/2005 of 8 November 2005 adopting a plan allocating resources to the Member States to be charged against 2006 budget year for the supply of food from intervention stocks for the benefit of the most deprived persons in the Community
Date: 2005-11-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, aid to disadvantaged groups, food aid, foodstuff, intervention stock

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1819/2005

of 8 November 2005

adopting a plan allocating resources to the Member States to be charged against 2006 budget year
for the supply of food from intervention stocks for the benefit of the most deprived persons in the
Community

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3730/87 of 10
December 1987 laying down the general rules for the supply of
food from intervention stocks to designated organisations for
distribution to the most deprived persons in the Community (1)
and in particular Article 6 thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2799/98 of 15
December 1998 establishing agrimonetary arrangements for the
euro (2), and in particular Article 3(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

In accordance with Article 2 of Commission Regulation
(EEC) No 3149/92 of 29 October 1992 laying down
detailed rules for the supply of food from intervention
stocks for the benefit of the most deprived persons in the
Community (3), the Commission has to adopt a distri-
bution plan to be financed from resources available in
the 2006 budget year. The plan should lay down in
particular, for each of the Member States applying the
measure, the maximum financial resources available to
carry out its part of the plan, and the quantity of each
type of product to be withdrawn from the stocks held by
the intervention agencies.

The Member States involved in the plan for 2006 have
supplied the information required in accordance with
Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92.

For the purposes of resource allocation, account must be
the degree to which the
taken of experience and of
Member States have used the resources allocated to
them in previous years.

Article 2(3)(1)(c) of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92
provides for the making of grants for the purchase on
the market of products temporarily unavailable in inter-
vention stocks. Since stocks of skimmed-milk powder

(1) OJ L 352, 15.12.1987, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 2535/95 (OJ L 260, 31.10.1995, p. 3).

(2) OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 313, 30.10.1992, p. 50. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1608/2005 (OJ L 256, 30.9.2005, p. 13).

currently held by intervention agencies are very low and
arrangements have already been made for their sale on
the market, it is necessary to fix the grant in order to
allow skimmed-milk powder required for the 2006 plan
to be purchased on the market. Furthermore, specific
provisions need to be introduced to ensure that
the
supply contract is properly carried out.

transfer between Member

Article 7(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 provides for
States of products
the
unavailable in intervention stocks of the Member State
where such products are required for the implementation
of an annual plan. The
intra-Community transfers
necessary to carry through the 2006 plan should
authorised subject
therefore be
conditions
provided for
in Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No
3149/92.

to the

To implement the plan, the operative event within the
meaning of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 2799/98
should be the date on which the financial year for
administration of stocks in public storage starts.

In accordance with Article 2(2) of Regulation (EEC) No
3149/92 the Commission has consulted the major orga-
nisations familiar with the problems of the most deprived
persons in the Community when drawing up the plan.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinions of
relevant
management committees,

the

all

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For 2006, the distribution of foodstuffs for the benefit of the
most deprived persons in the Community under Regulation
(EEC) No 3730/87 shall be supplied in accordance with the
distribution plan set out in Annex I to this Regulation.

Article 2

The grants to Member States for the purchase on the
the plan

1.
market of
referred to in Article 1 are fixed in Annex II.

skimmed-milk powder

required for

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The award to the successful tenderer of the contract for
2.
the supply of
referred to in
the skimmed-milk powder
paragraph 1 is subject to the provision by the tenderer of a
security equivalent to the offer price, made out in the name of
the intervention agency.

Article 3

Article 4

In order to implement the plan referred to in Article 1 of this
Regulation, the date of the operative event referred to in Article
3 of Regulation (EC) No 2799/98 shall be 1 October 2005.

The intra-Community transfer of products listed in Annex III to
this Regulation are hereby authorised subject to the conditions
provided for in Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92.

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

Article 5

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

Done at Brussels, 8 November 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX I

Annual distribution plan for 2006

(a) Financial resources made available to implement the plan in each Member State:

(in euro)

Member State

Belgium

Greece

Spain

France

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Luxembourg

Hungary

Malta

Poland

Portugal

Slovenia

Finland

Allocation

3 064 940

7 127 822

53 793 470

48 059 949

355 874

73 538 420

2 096 236

2 489 508

34 959

6 764 115

401 030

43 408 602

13 306 532

1 334 827

3 637 860

Total

259 414 143

(b) Quantity of each type of product to be withdrawn from Community intervention stocks for distribution in each

Member State subject to the maximum amounts laid down in (a):

Member State

Belgium

Greece

Spain

France

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Hungary

Malta

Poland

Portugal

Slovenia

Finland

Cereals

12 121

73 726

75 851

Rice (paddy rice)

2 800

15 000

28 000

55 000

115 253

20 000

19 706

16 000

63 587

1 877

85 608

17 287

1 262

18 500

5 000

600

20 000

14 000

600

Butter

450

13 560

10 564

120

6 833

7 230

2 743

(tonnes)

Sugar

2 000

3 500

4 847

1 700

300

500

Total

500 778

161 000

41 500

12 847

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ANNEX II

Grants to Member States for purchase of skimmed-milk powder on the Community market subject to the maximum
amounts laid down in Annex I(a):

Member State

Greece

Italy

Luxembourg

Malta

Poland

Slovenia

Finland

Euros

4 538 402

33 849 510

33 295

101 734

6 185 397

863 810

1 274 443

Total

46 846 591

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6. Rice

5 000

Ministry of Agriculture, Greece

Ministry of Agriculture, Greece

ARR, Poland

ANNEX III

Intra-Community transfers authorised under the plan for 2006

Quantity
(tonnes)

Holder

Consignee

73 726

Ministry of Agriculture, France

115 253

Ministry of Agriculture, France

FEGA, Spain

AGEA, Italy

17 287

Ministry of Agriculture, France

INGA, Portugal

MVH, Hungary

AAMRD, Slovenia

Ministry of Agriculture, France

FEGA, Spain

2 800

Ente Risi, Italy

38 396

Ente Risi, Italy

600

Ente Risi, Italy

600

Ente Risi, Italy

1 700

FEGA Spain

1 262

1 877

20 000

14 000

500

300

450

8 997

6 164

ARR, Poland

AGEA, Italy

Department of Agriculture and Food,
Ireland

Department of Agriculture and Food,
Ireland

National Research and Development
Centre, Malta

Agricultural and Food Products Market
Regulation Agency, Lithuania

INGA, Portugal

BIRB, Belgium

Ministry of Agriculture, France

National Research and Development
Centre, Malta

AAMRD, Slovenia

INGA, Portugal

Ministry of Agriculture, Finland

AAMRD, Slovenia

BIRB, Belgium

Ministry of Agriculture, France

Product

1. Cereals

2. Cereals

3. Cereals

4. Cereals

5. Cereals

7. Rice

8. Rice

9. Rice

10. Rice

11. Rice

12. Rice

13. Sugar

14. Sugar

15. Sugar

16. Butter

17. Butter

18. Butter

Department of Agriculture and Food,
Ireland

ARR, Poland

19. Butter

631

FEGA, Spain

AGEA, Italy