Commission Regulation (EC) No 1460/2006 of 2 October 2006 derogating from Regulation (EC) No 1227/2000 as regards transitional arrangement concerning the final allocations for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards
Date: 2006-10-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU financing arrangements, agricultural expenditure, aid for restructuring, derogation from EU law, redevelopment aid, validation of expenditure, viticulture

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1460/2006

of 2 October 2006

derogating from Regulation (EC) No 1227/2000 as regards transitional arrangement concerning the
final allocations for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

their initial allocation, though they validated a certain
part of it. The difficulties were related to the lack of
the scheme. Appli-
familiarity with the conditions of
cation of Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 1227/2000
would result in excessive reductions in the appropriations
available to those Member States for restructuring and
conversion in this financial year.

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 of
17 May 1999 on the common organisation of the market in
wine (1), and in particular Article 15 thereof,

(5)

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Articles 16 and 17 of Commission Regulation (EC)
No 1227/2000 of 31 May 2000 laying down detailed
the application of Council Regulation (EC)
rules for
No 1493/1999 on the common organisation of
the
market in wine, as regards production potential (2) lay
down the rules on financing the restructuring and
conversion scheme.

to Article 16(1)(b) of Regulation (EC)
According
the
States
No 1227/2000, Member
Commission, not
in
respect of the restructuring and conversion system, a
statement of expenditure validated at 30 June of the
current financial year and the total area concerned.

than 10 July each year

forward

later

to

Article 17(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1227/2000 provides
for that Member States make the statement referred to in
the amount which they have
Article 16(1)(b) only if
declared in accordance with Article 16(1)(a),
is at least
equal to 75 % of the amount of the initial allocation of
the given Member State. The absence of the statement
referred to in Article 16(1)(b) leads, in turn, to the ineli-
gibility of the validated expenditure for support under the
restructuring and conversion scheme.

(4)

Some Member States for which the 2005/2006 wine
year is the second year of application of the restructuring
and conversion scheme were unable to pay out 75 % of

(1) OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 2165/2005 (OJ L 345, 28.12.2005, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 143, 16.6.2000, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1216/2005 (OJ L 199, 29.7.2005, p. 32).

of

derogation

from Regulation

Therefore, on a transitional basis,
for the 2005/2006
wine year, these excessive reductions are to be avoided,
by way
(EC)
No 1227/2000, by allowing the Member States for
which the 2005/2006 wine year is the second year of
application of the restructuring and conversion scheme
to pay out, by the end of the current financial year, the
totality of their appropriations in respect of which the
corresponding expenditure was incurred or validated on
30 June 2006.

(6)

(7)

(8)

A similar
solution was applied in 2002 when the
vineyard restructuring and conversion scheme was in
the second year of application for the old Member
States and some of them had problems of the same
nature now encountered by some of the Member States
for in which the scheme is applied for the second year.

As this Regulation must apply from 1 July 2006,
it
should enter into force on the day of its publication in
the Official Journal of the European Union.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
the Management
accordance with the opinion of
Committee for Wine,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

By way of derogation from Article 17(2) of Regulation (EC)
No 1227/2000 and as the 2006 financial year concerns, no
conditions apply to the statement
referred to in Article
16(1)(b) of that Regulation in the case of Member States for
which the 2005/2006 wine year is the second year of appli-
cation of the restructuring and conversion scheme. They may
pay out, not later than 15 October 2006, the sum of the
expenditure they reported to the Commission under Article
16(1)(a) and (b) of this Regulation.

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

Article 2

It shall apply from 1 July 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 2 October 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission