Commission Regulation (EC) No 552/2007 of 22 May 2007 establishing the maximum Community contribution to financing the work programmes in the olive oil sector and fixing, for 2007, budgetary ceilings for the partial or optional implementation of the Single Payment Scheme and the annual financial envelopes for the Single Area Payment Scheme, provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, and amending that Regulation
Date: 2007-05-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU financing, aid system, aid to agriculture, common agricultural policy, olive oil, single payment scheme

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 552/2007

of 22 May 2007

establishing the maximum Community contribution to financing the work programmes in the olive
oil sector and fixing, for 2007, budgetary ceilings for the partial or optional implementation of the
Single Payment Scheme and the annual financial envelopes for the Single Area Payment Scheme,
provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, and amending that Regulation

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 of 29
September 2003 establishing common rules for direct support
schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing
certain support schemes for farmers and amending Regulations
(EEC) No 2019/93, (EC) No 1452/2001, (EC) No 1453/2001,
(EC) No 1454/2001, (EC) No 1868/94, (EC) No 1251/1999,
(EC) No 1254/1999, (EC) No 1673/2000, (EEC) No 2358/71
and (EC) No 2529/2001 (1), and in particular Articles 64(2),
70(2), 110i(3) and (4), 143b(3) and 145(i) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

For the Member State implementing the Single Payment
Scheme provided for in Title III of Regulation (EC) No
1782/2003 in 2007, the budgetary ceilings for each of
the payments referred to in Articles 66 to 69 of that
the
Regulation should be
conditions laid down in Section 2 of Chapter 5 of
Title III of that Regulation.

fixed for 2007 under

the
For the Member States making use,
option provided for
in Article 70 of Regulation
(EC) No 1782/2003, the budgetary ceilings applying to
the direct payments excluded from the Single Payment
Scheme should be fixed for 2007.

in 2007, of

The maximum amount of aid for olive groves referred to
in Article 110i(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003
should be adjusted according to the reduction of the
coefficient referred to in the third subparagraph of the
same provision and to the amount withheld under
States
Article
concerned. The national ceilings set in Annex VIIIa to
that Regulation should be adjusted accordingly.

the Member

110i(4),

notified

by

2007 after deduction, from the ceilings of Annex VIII
to Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, of the ceilings estab-
lished for the payments referred to in Articles 66 to 70
of that Regulation.

(5)

(6)

(7)

For Member States implementing in 2007 the Single
Area Payment Scheme provided for in Title IVa of Regu-
financial
lation (EC) No 1782/2003,
envelopes for 2007 should be fixed in accordance with
Article 143b(3) of that Regulation.

annual

the

For the sake of clarity, it is appropriate to publish the
maximum amount of funds available to Member States
applying the Single Area Payment Scheme for granting
separate sugar payments in 2007 under Article 143ba of
Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 established on the basis
of their notifications.

The maximum amount of Community contribution to
financing of work programmes drawn up by
the
certified organisations of operators
in the olive oil
coefficient
sector
applied to the amount withheld under Article 110(i)(4)
of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, notified by the
Member States concerned.

according to the

should be

set,

(8)

Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 should be amended
accordingly.

(9)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

(4)

For the sake of clarity, it is appropriate to publish the
budgetary ceilings for the Single Payment Scheme for

Article 1

(1) 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).

1.
The budgetary ceilings for 2007 referred to in Articles 66
to 69 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 are set out in Annex I
to this Regulation.

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The budgetary ceilings for 2007 referred to in Article
2.
70(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 are set out in Annex
II to this Regulation.

1. In the first subparagraph of Article 110i(3),

the table is

replaced by the following table:

The budgetary ceilings for the single payment scheme for
3.
2007 referred to in Title III of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003
are set out in Annex III to this Regulation.

Spain

Cyprus

‘EUR million

103,14
2,93’

4.
The annual financial envelopes for 2007 referred to in
Article 143b(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 are set out
in Annex IV to this Regulation.

2. In Annex VIIIa, the columns concerning Malta and Slovenia

are replaced by the following:

5.
The maximal amounts of funding available to the Czech
Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania and
Slovakia for granting the separate sugar payment in 2007, as
referred to in Article 143ba(4) of Regulation (EC) No
1782/2003, are published in Annex V to this Regulation.

Article 2

The maximum Community contribution to financing the work
programmes drawn up by certified operators in the olive oil
sector under Article 110i(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003
shall be as follows:

Greece

France

Italy

EUR million

11,098

0,576

35,991

‘Calendar year

2005

2006

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016 and subsequent years

Article 4

Malta

670

830

1 668

2 085

2 502

2 919

3 336

3 753

4 170

4 170

4 170

4 170

Slovenia

35 800

44 184

59 026

73 618

87 942

101 959

115 976

129 993

144 110

144 110

144 110
144 110’

Article 3

Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 is amended as follows:

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

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

Done at Brussels, 22 May 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX II

BUDGETARY CEILINGS FOR DIRECT PAYMENTS TO BE GRANTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH ARTICLE 70
OF REGULATION (EC) No 1782/2003

2007 Calendar year

Belgium

Greece

Spain

France

Italy

Netherlands

Portugal

Finland

(EUR thousand)

Article 70(1)(a)

Aid for seeds

1 397

1 400

10 347

2 310

13 321

726

272

1 150

Article 70(1)(b)

Arable crops
payments

Grain legumes aid

Crop specific aid for
rice

Tobacco aid

23

1

3 053

166

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ANNEX III

BUDGETARY CEILINGS FOR THE SINGLE PAYMENT SCHEME

2007 Calendar year

(EUR thousand)

Member State

Belgium

Denmark

Germany

Greece

Spain

France

Ireland

Italy

Luxembourg

Malta

Netherlands

Austria

Portugal

Slovenia

Finland

Sweden

488 660

987 356

5 693 330

2 069 049

3 542 583

6 107 448

1 337 919

3 612 988

37 051

1 668

730 632

643 956

432 636

50 454

521 285

714 201

United Kingdom

3 931 186

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ANNEX IV

ANNUAL FINANCIAL ENVELOPES FOR THE SINGLE AREA PAYMENT SCHEME

2007 Calendar year

(EUR thousand)

Member State

Bulgaria

Czech Republic

Estonia

Cyprus

Latvia

Lithuania

Hungary

Poland

Romania

Slovak Republic

202 097

355 384

40 503

19 439

55 815

147 781

509 562

1 145 834

440 635

147 342

ANNEX V

MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF FUNDING AVAILABLE TO MEMBER STATES FOR GRANTING THE SEPARATE
SUGAR PAYMENTS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 143ba OF REGULATION (EC) No 1782/2003

2007 Calendar year

(EUR thousand)

Member State

Czech Republic

Latvia

Lithuania

Hungary

Poland

Romania

Slovak Republic

24 490

5 164

8 012

31 986

122 906

1 930

14 762