Commission Regulation (EC) No 153/2006 of  27 January 2006  amending Regulation (EC) No 1819/2005 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: 2006-01-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, aid to disadvantaged groups, food aid, foodstuff, intervention stock

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 153/2006

of 27 January 2006

amending Regulation (EC) No 1819/2005 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,

(2)

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,

(3)

(4)

To take into account the specific necessities of Greece,
the annual plan 2006 should be amended to authorise
the withdrawal of rice in payment for cereals and cereal
based products,
in accordance with the fourth subpar-
agraph of Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EEC) No
quantity of
3149/92. Therefore
initially
in Annex I to Regulation
allocated to Greece, as set
(EC) No 1819/2005, should be adapted accordingly.

rice

the

Regulation (EC) No 1819/2005 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

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

the

all

Whereas:

(1)

Regulation

Commission

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),
(EC) No
1819/2005 (4) adopted the distribution plan to be
financed from resources available in the 2006 budget
year. The plan lays 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,
to be
the quantity of each type of product
withdrawn from the stocks held by the intervention
agencies,
certain
products on the market.

for purchase of

and the grants

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex I
follows:

to Regulation (EC) No 1819/2005 is amended as

1. part (b) is replaced by the text set out in Annex I to this

Regulation;

2. the text set out in Annex II to this Regulation is added as

part (c).

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that
of 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, 27 January 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(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 133/2006 (OJ L 23, 27.1.2006, p. 11).

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

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ANNEX I

‘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):

(tonnes)

Member State

Cereals

Rice (paddy rice)

Butter

Sugar

Belgium

12 121

Greece

Spain

France

Ireland

Italy

Latvia

Lithuania

Hungary

Malta

Poland

Portugal

Slovenia

Finland

2 800

7 500

28 000

55 000

73 726

75 851

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

450

13 560

10 564

120

6 833

7 230

2 743

Total

500 778

153 500

41 500

2 000

3 500

4 847

1 700

300

500

12 847’

ANNEX II

‘(c) Quantities of rice authorized for removal from intervention stocks to pay for the supply of cereals or cereals products

mobilised on the market, subject to the maximum amounts laid down in (a):

Member State

Greece

Tonnes

7 500’