2006/669/EC: Commission Decision of 4 October 2006 fixing, for the 2006 financial year and in respect of a certain number of hectares, the definitive financial allocations to Member States for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards under Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 (notified under document number C(2006) 4348)
Date: 2006-10-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, agricultural production policy, aid for restructuring, aid per hectare, redevelopment aid, redirection of production, vineyard, viticulture

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Official Journal of the European Union

6.10.2006

COMMISSION DECISION

of 4 October 2006

fixing, for the 2006 financial year and in respect of a certain number of hectares, the definitive
financial allocations to Member States for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards under
Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999

(notified under document number C(2006) 4348)

(Only the English, Spanish, Czech, German, Greek, French, Italian, Hungarian, Portuguese, Slovak and Slovenian
texts are authentic)

(2006/669/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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 14(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

for
are

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

The detailed rules on financial planning and participation
in financing the restructuring and conversion scheme laid
down in Regulation (EC) No 1227/2000 stipulate that
the references to a given financial year refer to the
payments actually made by the Member States between
16 October and the following 15 October.

In accordance with Article 14(1) of Regulation (EC) No
1493/1999, the Commission makes initial allocations to
Member States each year on the basis of objective
criteria,
taking into account particular situations and
needs and the efforts to be undertaken in the light of
the objective of the scheme.

The Commission fixed the financial allocations for the
2005/2006 marketing year in Decision 2005/716/EC (3).

Under Article 17(1) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No
1227/2000, expenditure incurred and validated by the

(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).

(3) OJ L 271, 15.10.2005, p. 45.

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

Member States is limited to the amount allocated to
them as laid down in Decision 2005/716/EC. This limit
does not apply in 2006 to any Member State.

Under Article 17(4), a penalty is applied where the actual
per hectare expenditure of a Member State exceeds that
laid down in Decision 2005/716/EC. This year, penalties
of EUR 1 129 015, EUR 1 377 and EUR 550 apply to
Greece, Luxembourg and Malta respectively.

Under Article 16(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 1227/2000,
in the
Member States may submit a further request
current
Italy,
Austria and Slovenia have done so.

financial year. Germany, Spain, France,

requests
that Regulation,
Under Article 17(3) of
submitted pursuant
to Article 16(1)(c) of Regulation
(EC) No 1227/2000 are accepted on a pro-rata basis
for Member States, using the appropriations available
the amounts
after deducting for all Member States
notified in accordance with Article 16(1)(a) and (b) and
corrected, where appropriate, under Article 17(1) and (3),
from the total amount allocated to the Member States.
This provision applies in 2006 to Germany, Spain,
France, Italy, Austria and Slovenia.

to forward

the Member

Article 16(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1227/2000
requires
to the
States
Commission, not
later than 10 July of each year, a
statement of restructuring and conversion expenditure
validated as of 30 June of the current financial year, as
that
well as the total area involved. Article 17(2) of
Regulation lays down that Member States are to make
the statement referred to in Article 16(1)(b) only if the
amount which they have declared in accordance with
Article 16(1)(a), i.e. the expenditure actually incurred as
of 30 June of the current financial year, is at least equal
to 75 % of
the indicative amount allocated to the
Member State concerned. According to the derogation
in Commission Regulation (EC) No
provided for
1460/2006 (4),
to
this provision does not
Member States for which the 2005/2006 marketing
year is the second year of application of the restructuring
and conversion scheme,

apply

(4) OJ L 272, 3.10.2006, p. 9.

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HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The definitive financial allocations to the Member States for the
2005/2006 marketing year, in respect of a certain number of
hectares,
for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards
under Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999, for the period in the
2006 financial year, shall be as set out in the Annex to this
Decision.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Czech Republic, the Federal
Republic of Germany, the Hellenic Republic, the Kingdom of

the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg,

Spain, the French Republic, the Italian Republic, the Republic of
Cyprus,
the Republic of
Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Austria, the
Portuguese Republic, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak
Republic.

Done at Brussels, 4 October 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

Definitive financial allocations for the 2005/2006 marketing year (2006 financial year)

Member State

Area (ha)

Financial allocation
(EUR)

Czech Republic

Germany

Greece

Spain

France

Italy

Cyprus

Luxembourg

Hungary

Malta

Austria

Portugal

Slovenia

Slovakia

634

1 966

788

23 325

12 302

14 714

191

7

1 482

20

1 347

6 437

298

221

803 923

12 497 530

5 700 190

158 047 002

108 193 418

96 673 218

2 286 674

56 000

10 645 176

109 815

6 583 657

44 412 387

2 338 514

521 555

TOTAL

63 732

448 869 060