Commission Regulation (EC) No 1052/2006 of  11 July 2006  amending Regulation (EC) No 2222/2000 laying down financial rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1268/1999 on Community support for pre-accession measures for agriculture and rural development in the applicant countries of central and eastern Europe in the pre-accession period (Sapard)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-07-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Central and Eastern Europe, EU aid, accession to the European Union, aid to agriculture, coordination of aid, rural development

12.7.2006

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Official Journal of the European Union

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1052/2006

of 11 July 2006

amending Regulation (EC) No 2222/2000 laying down financial rules for the application of Council
Regulation (EC) No 1268/1999 on Community support for pre-accession measures for agriculture
and rural development in the applicant countries of central and eastern Europe in the pre-accession
period (Sapard)

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(5)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of the Committee of the
European Agriculture and Guidance Fund (EAGGF),

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1268/1999 of
for pre-accession
21 June 1999 on Community support
measures
in the
agriculture
applicant countries of central and eastern Europe in the pre-
accession period (1), and in particular Article 12(2)
thereof,

and rural development

for

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

7

Article
(EC) No
of Commission Regulation
2222/2000 (2) lays down the rules regarding automatic
and in
de-commitment of unused appropriations,
particular provides, for the years 2004 and 2005, that
this shall occur on 31 December of the second year
following
commitment
the
concerned (the n+2 rule for automatic de-commitment)
reflecting Article 31(2) of Council Regulation (EC) No
1260/1999 of 21 June 1999 laying down general
provisions on the Structural Funds (3).

year of

financial

the

In 2005 Bulgaria and especially Romania suffered under
severe floods which further hampered the implemen-
tation of the instrument and which is likely to have
repercussions on use of appropriations provided for the
years 2004 and 2005.

It is therefore justified to apply an ‘n+3’ automatic de-
commitment
the years 2004 and 2005 to
rule for
Bulgaria and Romania.

(4)

Regulation (EC) No 2222/2000 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

(1) OJ L 161, 26.6.1999, p. 87. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 2112/2005 (OJ L 344, 27.12.2005, p. 23).

(2) OJ L 253, 7.10.2000, p. 5. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 188/2003 (OJ L 27, 1.2.2003, p. 14).

(3) OJ L 161, 26.6.1999, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 173/2005 (OJ L 29, 2.2.2005, p. 3).

Article 1

Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2222/2000 is replaced by
the following:

‘3.
Taking account of the requirements of Article 10, the
Commission shall de-commit any part of a commitment
which has not been settled by the payment on account or
for which it has not received an acceptable payment appli-
cation by the following dates:

(a)

for appropriations corresponding to the 2000 annual
allocation: 31 December 2004;

(b) for appropriations corresponding to the annual allocation

for 2001: 31 December 2005;

(c)

for appropriations corresponding to the annual allocation
for 2002: 31 December 2006;

(d) for appropriations corresponding to the annual allocation

for 2003: 31 December 2006;

(e)

for appropriations corresponding to the annual allocation
for 2004: 31 December 2007;

(f)

for appropriations corresponding to the annual allocation
for 2005: 31 December 2008;

(g) for appropriations corresponding to the annual allocation

for 2006: 31 December 2008.’

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

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 11 July 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission