2006/246/EC,Euratom: Commission Decision of  21 March 2006  amending Decision 97/245/EC, Euratom laying down the arrangements for the transmission of information to the Commission by the Member States under the Communities' own resources system  (notified under document number C(2006) 845)
Date: 2006-03-21
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: exchange of information, own resources

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 21 March 2006

amending Decision 97/245/EC, Euratom laying down the arrangements for the transmission of
information to the Commission by the Member States under the Communities' own resources
system

(notified under document number C(2006) 845)

(2006/246/EC, Euratom)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(2)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic
Energy Community,

Having regard to Council Decision 2000/597/EC, Euratom of
29 September 2000 on the system of the European Commu-
nities' own resources (1),

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No
1150/2000 of 22 May 2000 implementing Council Decision
2000/597/EC, Euratom on the system of the Communities' own
resources (2), and in particular the second subparagraph of
Article 6(4) thereof,

Having consulted the Advisory Committee on Own Resources,

Whereas:

(1)

Euratom (3) was
Commission Decision 97/245/EC,
adopted to take account of the changes which Regulation
(EC, Euratom) No 1355/96 (4) had made to Council
Regulation (EEC, Euratom) No 1552/89 of 29 May
1989 implementing Decision 88/376/EEC, Euratom on
the Communities' own resources (5).
the system of
Decision 97/245/EC, Euratom thus
laid down the
procedure for the transmission of certain information
by the Member States to the Commission under the
Communities' own resources system.

(1) OJ L 253, 7.10.2000, p. 42.
(2) OJ L 130, 31.5.2000, p. 1. Regulation amended by Regulation (EC,

Euratom) No 2028/2004 (OJ L 352, 27.11.2004, p. 1).

(3) OJ L 97, 12.4.1997, p. 12. Decision amended by Decision

2002/235/EC (OJ L 79, 22.3.2002, p. 61).

(4) OJ L 175, 13.7.1996, p. 3.
(5) OJ L 155, 7.6.1989, p. 1.

(3)

(4)

(5)

Since Regulation (EEC, Euratom) No 1552/89 was conso-
lidated by Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1150/2000, the
references to Regulation (EEC, Euratom) No 1552/89
given in some of the annexes to Decision 97/245/EC,
Euratom must be amended for the sake of clarity.

The Treaty establishing the European Coal and Steel
(ECSC)
Community
2002.
expired
on
Accordingly,
there are no longer any customs duties
which have to be entered in the accounts as own
resources under this Treaty.

July

23

2000/597/EC,

Euratom, which

Account must be taken of the changes resulting from
replaced
Decision
Council Decision 94/728/EC, Euratom (6),
in particular
as regards the adjustment of the rate of the deduction
to cover the costs involved in collecting ‘traditional’ own
resources. Decision 2000/597/EC, Euratom laid down a
new 25% deduction rate, except
for amounts which
should have been made available before 28 February
2001 for which the Member States will continue to
deduct 10%.

by

(EC,

Euratom)

Regulation

the new reporting obli-
Account should be taken of
inserted in Regulation (EC, Euratom) No
gations
1150/2000
No
2028/2004. It is thus laid down that, together with the
final quarterly statement for a given year, the Member
States must submit an estimate of the total amount of
entitlements entered in the separate account at the end of
each year for which recovery is unlikely. The Member
States are also obliged to mention amounts declared or
deemed to be irrecoverable in an annex to the quarterly
statement for the separate account.

(6) OJ L 293, 12.11.1994, p. 9.

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(6)

(7)

(8)

Steps should be taken to capitalise on the experience
acquired by the Member States in the transmission of
the accounting statements referred to in Article 6(3)(a)
and (b) of Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1150/2000 and
to improve the presentation of the forms used to that
end.

Decision 97/245/EC, Euratom should,
amended accordingly.

therefore, be

A suitable length of time should be allowed to apply the
reporting procedures for the amended statements,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

(b) Annex IIIa, contained in Annex II to this Decision, shall be

inserted after Annex III.

Article 2

The first statements to be produced using the models contained
in Annexes I and II shall be the monthly statement for June
2006 and the quarterly statement for the second quarter of
2006.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Article 1

Done at Brussels, 21 March 2006.

Decision 97/245/EC, Euratom is hereby amended as follows:

(a) Annexes I, II and III shall be replaced by the text contained

in Annex I to this Decision.

For the Commission
Dalia GRYBAUSKAITĖ
Member of the Commission

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