Commission Regulation (EC) No 2003/2005 of  8 December 2005  amending Regulation (EC) No 447/2004 as regards  ex-post  evaluation of the Sapard programme
Date: 2005-12-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Central and Eastern Europe, EAGGF Guarantee Section, EU financing, EU programme, accession to the European Union, aid to agriculture, project evaluation, rural development

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2003/2005

of 8 December 2005
amending Regulation (EC) No 447/2004 as regards ex-post evaluation of the Sapard programme

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

under

Regulation

from support

transition
(EC)
No 1268/1999 to that provided for by Regulation (EC)
Nos 1257/1999 and 1260/1999 for the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Slovenia and
Slovakia (3) should, therefore, be amended to cover ex-
post evaluations of the Sapard programme.

Having regard to the Treaty of Accession of the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland,
Slovenia and Slovakia,

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 447/2004 should be amended
accordingly.

Having regard to the Act of Accession of the Czech Republic,
Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland,
Slovenia and Slovakia, and in particular Articles 32(5) and
33(5) thereof,

(5)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of the Committee on Agri-
cultural Structures and Rural Development,

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

(1)

(EC) No

2759/1999

In accordance with the provisions of Article 12 of
Commission Regulation
of
22 December 1999 laying down rules for the application
of Council Regulation
on
Community support for pre-accession measures for agri-
culture and rural development in the applicant countries
of central and eastern Europe in the pre-accession
period (1), ex-post evaluation of the Sapard programme
must be carried out not later than three years after the
end of the programming period.

1268/1999

(EC) No

(2)

It has to be ensured that these evaluations may still be
carried out and financed after 2006, beyond the period
of eligibility under Sapard in accordance with Council
Regulation (EC) No 1268/1999 (2).

Article 1

Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 447/2004 is hereby replaced
by the following:

the

The

ex-post

relevant

evaluations of

‘2.
Sapard
programmes provided for in Article 12 of Commission
Regulation (EC) No 2759/1999 (*), as well as payments
for projects
for which appropriations under Regulation
(EC) No 1268/1999 are exhausted or insufficient, may be
included in rural development programming for the period
2004 to 2006 under Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 and
financed by the EAGGF Guarantee Section.

___________
(*) OJ L 331, 23.12.1999, p. 51.’

(3)

Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 447/2004
of 10 March 2004 laying down rules to facilitate the

(1) OJ L 331, 23.12.1999, p. 51. Regulation last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 2278/2004 (OJ L 396, 31.12.2004, p. 36).

(2) OJ L 161, 26.6.1999, p. 87. Regulation last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 2257/2004 (OJ L 389, 30.12.2004, p. 1).

Article 2

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

(3) OJ L 72, 11.3.2004, p. 64.

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

Done at Brussels, 8 December 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission