Commission Regulation (EC) No 811/2007 of 11 July 2007 amending Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 on detailed rules to implement Council Regulation (EC) No 797/2004 on improving general conditions for the production and marketing of apiculture products
Date: 2007-07-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU law - national law, apiculture, marketing, production improvement

12.7.2007

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 811/2007

of 11 July 2007

amending Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 on detailed rules to implement Council Regulation (EC) No
797/2004 on improving general conditions for the production and marketing of apiculture products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 is amended as follows:

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 797/2004 of 26
April 2004 on improving general conditions for the production
and marketing of apiculture products (1), and in particular
Article 6 thereof,

1. Article 2 is amended as follows:

Whereas:

(a)

in paragraph 1, the second subparagraph is deleted;

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

ambiguity, Article 2(3) of
To avoid any risk of
Commission Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 (2) should
clearly lay down that measures in apiculture programmes
must be implemented before the end of
the year to
which they relate.

The possibility of amending the financial limits for each
measure in an apiculture programme during a year
without such amendment needing to be approved in
accordance with the procedure at Article 5 of Regulation
(EC) No 797/2004 is currently restricted to a maximum
of 20 % of those financial limits.

(b) in paragraph 3, the first sentence is replaced by the

following:

‘The apiculture programme measures laid down for every
year of the three-year period shall be implemented in full
by 31 August of the year to which they relate.’;

2. Article 6 is replaced by the following:

limit of 20 % has proved administratively too
and the

This
restrictive
States
Commission. It should therefore be abolished.

for both the Member

To achieve simplification, the adjustment of measures in
the apiculture programmes during a year should be made
more flexible; the limits on a new budgetary allocation
by type of measure within the budget allocated to each
Member State should therefore be abolished.

There should be provision for adjustments
to the
measures in the apiculture programmes to be notified
to the Commission where certain measures were not
notified in the three-year programme forwarded initially.

Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 should be amended
accordingly.

‘Article 6

Provided they continue to comply with Article 2 of
Regulation (EC) No 797/2004, measures
in apiculture
programmes may be adjusted during a year. The financial
limits for each of these measures may be amended provided
that the overall ceiling on planned annual expenditure is not
exceeded and that the Community contribution to financing
of the apiculture programme does not exceed 50 % of the
expenditure borne by the Member State concerned.

The Member State concerned shall notify the Commission of
any draft adjustment to the measures during a year, pursuant
to the first subparagraph, where a measure had not been
planned initially and notified in the three-year programme.
If the Commission raises no objection, the adjustment shall
take effect from the first day of the second month following
such notification.

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

At the latest two months after the end of each year of the
programme, Member States shall send the Commission a
implementation of expenditure by type of
summary of
measure.’;

(1) OJ L 125, 28.4.2004, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 163, 30.4.2004, p. 83. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1913/2006 (OJ L 365, 21.12.2006, p. 52).

3. Article 7 is deleted.

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

Article 2

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

Done at Brussels, 11 July 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission