Commission Regulation (EC) No 342/2007 of 29 March 2007 amending Regulation (EC) No 489/2005 as regards determining the intervention centres and the taking over of paddy rice by the intervention agencies as a result of the accession of Bulgaria and Romania to the European Union
Date: 2007-03-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Bulgaria, EU Member State, Romania, accession to the European Union, common organisation of markets, intervention agency, intervention price, product quality, rice

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 342/2007

of 29 March 2007

amending Regulation (EC) No 489/2005 as regards determining the intervention centres and the
taking over of paddy rice by the intervention agencies as a result of the accession of Bulgaria and
Romania to the European Union

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

common rules for direct support schemes under the
common agricultural policy and establishing certain
support schemes for farmers (3) and the average yields
set out in Annex VII to that Regulation. Following the
accession of Bulgaria and Romania,
the distribution
among the producer Member States should be revised,
applying the same distribution criteria as those used
when Regulation (EC) No 489/2005 was adopted but
taking account of
the base areas of Bulgaria and
Romania.

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1785/2003 of 29
September 2003 on the common organisation of the market in
rice (1), and in particular Article 6(3) and Article 7(5) thereof,

(3)

Regulation (EC) No 489/2005 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

Whereas:

(4)

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

(1)

(2)

Article 6(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1785/2003 provides
that the list of intervention centres for taking over paddy
rice is to be drawn up by the Commission after consul-
tation with the Member States. That list is set forth in
Annex I to Commission Regulation (EC) No 489/2005 of
29 March 2005 laying down detailed rules for imple-
menting Council Regulation (EC) No 1785/2003 as
regards determining the intervention centres and the
taking
intervention
agencies (2). Following the accession of Bulgaria and
Romania to the European Union on 1 January 2007, it
is necessary to determine the intervention centres for
these new Member States and add them to the above
mentioned list.

of paddy

over

rice

the

by

Article 7(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1785/2003 limits the
quantities that may be bought in by the intervention
agencies in all of the Community to 75 000 tonnes.
To distribute this quantity fairly, the quantities for each
producer Member State were laid down in Regulation
(EC) No 489/2005, taking account of the national base
laid down in Council Regulation (EC) No
areas
establishing
1782/2003

September

2003

29

of

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 489/2005 is hereby amended as follows:

1. Annex I is amended in accordance with Annex I to this

Regulation.

2. Annex V is replaced by Annex II to this Regulation.

Article 2

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

(1) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 96. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 797/2006 (OJ L 144, 31.5.2006, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 81, 30.3.2005, p. 26.

(3) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 2013/2006 (OJ L 384, 29.12.2006, p. 13).

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

Done at Brussels, 29 March 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX I

The following points 7 and 8 are added to Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 489/2005:

‘7. Bulgaria

Regions

Name of centre

Пазарджишка област

Пловдивска област

Старозагорска област

Пазарджик

Пловдив

Стара Загора

8. Romania

Region

Name of centre

Ialomita

Slobozia’

ANNEX II

‘ANNEX V

Tranche 1 referred to in Article 5

Member State

Tranche 1

584 t

4 636 t

20 320 t

4 148 t

40 432 t

305 t

4 549 t

26 t’

Bulgaria

Greece

Spain

France

Italy

Hungary

Portugal

Romania