Commission Regulation (EC) No 2109/2005 of  21 December 2005  amending Regulation (EC) No 716/96 adopting exceptional support measures for the beef market in the United Kingdom
Date: 2005-12-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: State aid, United Kingdom, aid to agriculture, beef, bovine spongiform encephalopathy, domestic market, purchase, purchase price

22.12.2005

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2109/2005

of 21 December 2005

amending Regulation (EC) No 716/96 adopting exceptional support measures for the beef market in
the United Kingdom

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

bovine animals born or
reared within the United
Kingdom before 1 August 1996 should be placed on
the market.

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

(4)

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in beef
and veal (1), and in particular Article 39 thereof,

Whereas:

Article 2(1) and Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No
716/96 lay down, respectively, the price to be paid per
kilogram of animals going into the scheme provided for
by that Regulation, and the rate per animal at which the
the
Community shall
is
animals.
necessary to restrict the purchases and the Community
co-financing provided for in Regulation (EC) No 716/96
to animals born or reared within the United Kingdom
before 1 August 1996.

In view of Decision 2005/598/EC,

the purchases of

co-finance

it

Commission Regulation (EC) No 716/96 (2) provided for
a Community co-financed scheme authorising the United
Kingdom to purchase bovine animals aged more than 30
months and to kill them in specifically designated slaugh-
terhouses.

(5) With a view to simplification, a flat-rate purchase price
per head should be established for any animal purchased
In order to give an incentive to
under the scheme.
producers not to defer the disposal of these animals,
the purchase price should be gradually reduced in
subsequent years.

The opinion of the Scientific Panel on biological hazards
of the European Food Safety Authority of 21 April 2004
on the scientific justification for proposing amendments
to the United Kingdom Date Based Export Scheme and
to the Over Thirty Months rule, concludes that cattle
born or reared in the United Kingdom before 1 August
1996 should be kept out of the food and feed chain,
because of the higher bovine spongiform encephalopathy
(BSE) incidence in this group. For cattle born after that
date,
the BSE risk to
consumers is in a range comparable with that in other
Member States.

the opinion concludes

that

(6)

(7)

(8)

this

view of

opinion, Commission Decision
In
2005/598/EC of 2 August 2005 prohibiting
the
placing on the market of products derived from bovine
animals born or
reared within the United Kingdom
before 1 August 1996 for any purpose and exempting
from certain control and eradication
such animals
measures
(EC) No
in
999/2001 (3) establishes that no products consisting of
or incorporating materials, other than milk, derived from

Regulation

down

laid

The Community should co-finance 50 % of the purchases
under the scheme.

In order to ensure a smooth transition between the
current over-30 month scheme and the scheme limited
to animals born or reared within the United Kingdom
before 1 August 1996, it is necessary to specify the date
as of which the latter will apply.

In view of the decision of the United Kingdom autho-
rities to apply as of 1 January 2005 the single payment
scheme provided for in Title III of Council Regulation
(EC) No 1782/2003 of 29 September 2003 establishing
common rules for direct support schemes under the
common agricultural policy and establishing certain
support schemes for farmers and amending Regulations
(EC) No
(EEC) No 2019/93,
(EC)
1453/2001,
(EC) No
No
1673/2000,
(EC) No
2529/2001 (4), the provisions in Article 2(4) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 716/96 have become obsolete and
should therefore be deleted.

(EC) No 1454/2001,
(EC) No

1254/1999,
and

(EC) No 1452/2001,

(EC) 1868/94,

1251/1999,

(EEC) No

2358/71

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 21. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1913/2005 (OJ L 307, 25.11.2005, p. 2).

(2) OJ L 99, 20.4.1996, p. 14. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 667/2003 (OJ L 96, 12.4.2003, p. 13).

(3) OJ L 204, 5.8.2005, p. 22.

(4) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 118/2005 (OJ L 24, 27.1.2005,
p. 15).

(1)

(2)

(3)

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(9)

(10)

Regulation (EC) No 716/96 should be
accordingly.

amended

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
the Management
accordance with the opinion of
Committee for Beef and Veal,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 716/96 is amended as follows:

1.

in Article 1, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

‘1.
The United Kingdom competent authority shall be
authorised to purchase any bovine animal born or reared
within the United Kingdom before 1 August 1996, which
does not show any clinical sign of BSE, presented to it by
any producer or his agent, which was, during a period of at
least six months prior to its sale, present on a holding
located on the territory of the United Kingdom.’

2. Article 2 is amended as follows:

(a) Paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

‘1.
The price to be paid to producers or their agents
by the United Kingdom competent authority pursuant to
Article 1(1) shall be:

— EUR 360 per animal for purchases made until 31

December 2006,

— EUR 324 per animal for purchases made during the
period from 1 January 2007 until 31 December
2007,

— EUR 292 per animal for purchases made during the
period from 1 January 2008 until 31 December
2008.’

(b) paragraph 2 is deleted.

(c)

the first subparagraph of paragraph 3 is replaced by the
following:

‘For each purchased animal destroyed in accordance with
the provisions in Article 1, the Community shall co-
finance
the United
Kingdom for the purchases referred to under Article
1(1) at a rate of:

expenditure

incurred

the

by

— EUR 180 per animal for purchases made until 31

December 2006,

— EUR 162 per animal for purchases made during the
period from 1 January 2007 until 31 December
2007,

— EUR 146 per animal for purchases made during the
period from 1 January 2008 until 31 December
2008.’

(d) paragraph 4 is deleted.

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 23 January 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 21 December 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission