2006/701/EC: Commission Decision of 19 October 2006 fixing, for the 2006/2007 marketing year and in respect of a certain number of hectares, an indicative financial allocation by Member State for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards under Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 (notified under document number C(2006) 4884)   (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 2006-10-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, aid per hectare, common organisation of markets, policy on agricultural structures, redevelopment aid, redirection of production, vineyard, viticulture

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COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 19 October 2006

fixing, for the 2006/2007 marketing year and in respect of a certain number of hectares, an
indicative financial allocation by Member State for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards
under Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999

(notified under document number C(2006) 4884)

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

(Text with EEA relevance)

(2006/701/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
in
wine (1), and in particular Article 14(1) thereof,

the market

Whereas:

(1)

for
are

the restructuring and conversion of
The rules
laid down in Regulation (EC) No
vineyards
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).

(3)

(4)

(5)

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(3) of Regulation (EC) No
1493/1999,
the financial allocation between Member
States must take due account of the proportion of the
Community
State
concerned.

in the Member

vineyard

area

For the purposes of implementing Article 14(4) of Regu-
the financial allocations
lation (EC) No 1493/1999,
should be made in respect of a certain number of
hectares.

Under Article 13(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999,
the Community contribution to the costs of restructuring
and conversion is higher in regions classified as Objective
1 in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No
1260/1999 of 21 June 1999 laying down general
provisions on the Structural Funds (3).

(2)

The detailed rules on financial planning and participation
in financing the restructuring and conversion scheme laid

(6)

(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).

Account must be taken of the compensation for the loss
of
income incurred by the wine growers during the
period when the vineyard is not yet in production.

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

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

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

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

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(7)

(8)

the initial allocation,

In accordance with Article 17(5) of Regulation (EC) No
1227/2000, where expenditure actually incurred by a
Member State in a given financial year is less than
75 % of
the expenditure to be
recognised for the following financial year, and the corre-
sponding total area, are to be reduced by a third of the
difference between this threshold and the actual expend-
iture incurred during the financial year in question. This
provision applies
to
in respect of 2006
Hungary, whose
amounts to 34 % of its initial allocation, to Slovakia,
whose expenditure in respect of 2006 amounts
to
15 % of its initial allocation and to the Czech Republic,
whose expenditure amounts to EUR 0.

in the 2006/2007 wine year
expenditure

of vineyards under Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 for the
2006/2007 marketing year shall be as set out in the Annex
hereto.

Article 2

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

the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg,

In accordance with Article 14(2) of Regulation (EC) No
1493/1999, the initial allocation is adapted in view of
real expenditure and on the basis of revised expenditure
forecasts submitted by the Member States, taking account
of the objective of the scheme and subject to the funds
available,

Done at Brussels, 19 October 2006.

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The financial allocations by Member State,
in respect of a
certain number of hectares, for the restructuring and conversion

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

Indicative financial allocations for 2006/2007

Member State

Czech Republic

Germany

Greece

Spain

France

Italy

Cyprus

Luxembourg

Hungary

Malta

Austria

Portugal

Slovenia

Slovakia

Area (ha)

1 214

1 906

1 118

19 567

12 734

13 056

150

11

1 211

16

1 066

3 918

122

400

Total

56 489

Financial allocation
(EUR)

2 869 670

12 690 042

8 725 230

159 524 473

110 973 729

99 825 428

2 033 953

84 000

9 688 862

107 545

6 449 988

32 626 123

2 400 955

2 000 000

450 000 000