Council Regulation (EC) No 456/2006 of  20 March 2006  correcting Regulation (EC) No 1786/2003 on the common organisation of the market in dried fodder
Date: 2006-03-20
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: common organisation of markets, fodder, regulation of agricultural production

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(Acts whose publication is obligatory)

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 456/2006

of 20 March 2006

correcting Regulation (EC) No 1786/2003 on the common organisation of the market in dried
fodder

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

date of

the
1786/2003,

application of Regulation (EC) No

Having regard to the Treaty
establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 36 and the third subpar-
agraph of Article 37(2) thereof,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Article 1

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (1),

Whereas:

The text of Regulation (EC) No 1786/2003 (2) contains a
number of errors.

the

In Article 1 of
said Regulation, CN codes
ex 1214 90 91 and ex 1214 90 99 should be replaced
by CN code ex 1214 90 90 following an amendment
to the combined nomenclature.

In Article 5(1) of the said Regulation,
the maximum
guaranteed quantity of 4 855 900 tonnes should be
replaced by the maximum guaranteed quantity of
4 960 723 tonnes, the sum of the guaranteed national
quantities listed in paragraph 2 of that Article.

The first subparagraph of Article 6 of the said Regulation
should be reworded in order to describe correctly the
method of decreasing the aid, should the maximum guar-
anteed quantity be overrun. In the second subparagraph
of
linguistic versions should be
aligned in order to use the same terminology when
expressing the principle that no increase in budget
expenditure is possible in the event of an overrun of
the maximum guaranteed quantity.

the same Article, all

Regulation (EC) No 1786/2003 should therefore be
corrected accordingly.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

Regulation (EC) No 1786/2003 is hereby corrected as follows:

1. In point (a) of the first column of the table in Article 1, CN
codes ‘ex 1214 90 91 and ex 1214 90 99’ shall be replaced
by CN code ‘ex 1214 90 90’.

2. In Article 5(1),

the maximum guaranteed quantity of
‘4 855 900’ tonnes shall be replaced by the maximum guar-
anteed quantity of ‘4 960 723’ tonnes.

3. Article 6 shall be replaced as follows:

‘Article 6

the maximum guaranteed quantity set out

Where during a marketing year the volume of dried fodder
is claimed
for which aid as provided for in Article 4(2)
exceeds
in
Article 5(1), the aid shall be reduced in each Member State
in which production exceeds
the guaranteed national
the
quantity by reducing expenditure as a function of
percentage of the sum of the overruns represented by the
overrun of that Member State.

The reduction shall be set, in accordance with the procedure
referred to in Article 18(2), at a level ensuring that budget
expenditure expressed in euro does not exceed that which
would have been attained had the maximum guaranteed
quantity not been exceeded.’.

Article 2

Given that the corrections have no negative effect on
economic operators, this Regulation should apply from

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

(1) Not yet published in the Official Journal.
(2) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 114. Regulation as amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 583/2004 (OJ L 91, 30.3.2004, p. 1).

It shall apply from 1 April 2005.

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

Done at Brussels, 20 March 2006.

For the Council
The President

J. PRÖLL