Commission Regulation (EC) No 1629/2006 of 31 October 2006 amending Regulation (EC) No 1010/2006 on certain exceptional market support measures in the eggs and poultry sector in certain Member States
Date: 2006-10-31
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: animal disease, common organisation of markets, disease prevention, egg, market support, poultry, poultrymeat

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1629/2006

of 31 October 2006

amending Regulation (EC) No 1010/2006 on certain exceptional market support measures in the
eggs and poultry sector in certain Member States

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2771/75 of 29
October 1975 on the common organisation of the market in
eggs (1), and in particular point (b) of the first subparagraph of
Article 14(1) thereof,

(4)

(5)

(6)

Regulation (EC) No 1010/2006 should therefore be
amended.

Article 14 of Regulation (EEC) No 2771/75 and Article
14 of Regulation (EEC) No 2777/75 providing for the
adoption of the measures concerned have been in force
since 11 May 2006. This Regulation should therefore
also apply from that date.

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

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 2777/75 of 29
October 1975 on the common organisation of the market in
poultrymeat (2), and in particular point (b) of the first subpa-
ragraph of Article 14(1) thereof,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Whereas:

Regulation (EC) No 1010/2006 is amended as follows:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Council Directive 93/119/EC (3) on the protection of
animals at the time of slaughter or killing defines the
concepts of ‘slaughter’ and ‘killing’.

1. Article 4 is amended as follows:

(a) paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

Articles 4 and 7 of Commission Regulation (EC) No
the ‘killing’ of
1010/2006 (4) do not
animals must be considered to be an exceptional
market support measure in the same way as slaughter.

stipulate that

‘killing’

Given that the Member States did not have time to take
into account in their national
the concept of
legislation and in view of the recent amendment of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1010/2006, some Member States might
have problems meeting the deadline laid down in Article
10 of that Regulation for making payments to the bene-
ficiaries of exceptional market support measures, i.e. 31
December 2006. The payment deadline should therefore
be extended by several months.

‘1.
The slaughter or killing of part of a breeding flock
shall, where it is brought forward by six weeks or more
in order to reduce the production of eggs for hatching
falling within CN codes 0105 92 00, 0105 93 00,
0105 99 10,
and
0105 99 50, be regarded as an exceptional market
support measure pursuant to Article 14 of Regulation
(EEC) No 2777/75, provided no bird is then put into
the location in question during that
production at
period.’;

0105 99 20,

0105 99 30

(b) the first subparagraph of paragraph 2 is replaced by the

following:

(1) OJ L 282, 1.11.1975, p. 49. Regulation last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 679/2006 (OJ L 119, 4.5.2006, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 282, 1.11.1975, p. 77. Regulation last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 679/2006.

(3) OJ L 340, 31.12.1993, p. 21.
(4) OJ L 180, 4.7.2006, p. 3. Regulation amended by Regulation (EC)

No 1256/2006 (OJ L 228, 22.8.2006, p. 9).

‘Compensation shall be payable,
in respect of each
Member State concerned,
the early slaughter or
killing referred to in paragraph 1, subject to both the
maximum number of pieces laid down in Annex IV
and the time limits specified therein.’.

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2. Article 7 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 7

The early slaughter or killing of ready-to-lay pullets
support
to Article 14 of Regulation (EEC) No

an exceptional market

regarded as

1.
shall be
measure pursuant
2777/75.

Compensation shall be payable,
concerned,

in respect of each
2.
Member State
slaughter or killing as
for
referred to in paragraph 1, subject to both the maximum
number of birds laid down in Annex VII and the time limits
specified therein.

The maximum level of compensation shall be set at a flat
rate of EUR 3,2 per ready-to-lay pullet.’.

3. In Article 10, ‘31 December 2006’ is replaced by ‘31 March

2007’.

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 11 May 2006.

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

Done at Brussels, 31 October 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission