Commission Regulation (EC) No 133/2006 of  26 January 2006  amending Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 laying down detailed rules for the supply of food from intervention stocks for the benefit of the most deprived persons in the Community
Date: 2006-01-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU aid, aid to disadvantaged groups, food aid, foodstuff, intervention stock

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 133/2006

of 26 January 2006

amending Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 laying down detailed rules 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,

supporting documents concerning the distances covered
for reimbursement purposes.

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,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 (2) lays down
food from inter-
the detailed rules for the supply of
vention stocks for the benefit of
the most deprived
persons.

In order to ensure proper implementation of the annual
distribution plan for 2006, as established by Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1819/2005 of 8 November 2005
adopting a plan allocating resources to the Member
States to be charged against the 2006 budget year for
the supply of
food from intervention stocks for the
the
benefit
Community (3), the deadlines set for the withdrawal of
dairy products
should be
adapted.

from intervention stocks

the most

deprived

persons

of

in

for

the

supply or manufacture of

The products to be withdrawn from intervention stocks
under the annual plan may be supplied unprocessed or
processed for the manufacture of food, or withdrawn in
food
payment
mobilised on the Community market. In the latter case,
in intervention stocks which may be
the products
withdrawn in payment
for the manufacture of cereal
products should be specified. The conditions, laid down
in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92, governing
calls for tender for the organisation of supplies in the
Member States must in this case be specified accordingly.

Since intra-Community transport costs are borne by the
Community on the basis of
as
determined by means of calls for tender, it is no longer
the production of
necessary to make provision for

actual

costs,

the

(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 313, 30.10.1992, p. 50. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1608/2005 (OJ L 256, 1.10.2005, p. 13).

(3) OJ L 293, 9.11.2005, p. 3.

(5)

(6)

(7)

as
Article 3(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92,
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1903/2004 (4),
lays
down that the period for implementing the annual plan
ends on 31 December. The deadline for sending annual
reports, laid down in Article 10 of Regulation (EEC) No
3149/92, should therefore be adapted accordingly.

Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 should be amended
accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
the Management
accordance with the opinion of
Committees concerned,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 is hereby amended as follows:

1. In Article 3(2), third subparagraph, the following sentence is

added:

‘In the case of butter allocated to Member States under the
2006 annual plan, where the allocations involve amounts in
excess of 500 tonnes, 70 % of the butter must be withdrawn
from intervention stocks before 1 March 2006.’

2. Article 4 is amended as follows:

(a)

in paragraph 1(b), the following subparagraph is inserted
after the third subparagraph:

‘Similarly, where no cereals are available in intervention
stocks, the Commission may authorise the removal of
rice from intervention stocks to pay for the supply of
cereals or cereal products mobilised on the market.’

(b) in paragraph 2(a),
sentence is added:

fourth subparagraph, the following

‘Similarly, where
cereal
supply involves
products in exchange for rice withdrawn from inter-
vention stocks,
the invitation to tender shall specify
that the product to be withdrawn is a specific rice held
by an intervention agency.’

cereals or

(4) OJ L 328, 30.10.2004, p. 77.

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3. In Article 7(2),

the second sentence is replaced by the

following:
‘The
necessary
concerning the transport.’

application for
supporting

reimbursement
documents,

include

shall
particularly

all
those

‘No later than 30 June each year, the Member States shall
send the Commission a report on the implementation of the
plan on their territory during the previous year.’

Article 2

4. In Article 10, the first sentence of the first subparagraph is

replaced by the following:

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

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

Done at Brussels, 26 January 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission