Commission Regulation (EC) No 873/2007 of 24 July 2007 amending and correcting Regulation (EC) No 1913/2006 laying down detailed rules for the application of the agrimonetary system for the euro in agriculture
Date: 2007-07-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agri-monetary policy, aid to agriculture, common organisation of markets, export refund, production refund

25.7.2007

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 873/2007

of 24 July 2007

amending and correcting Regulation (EC) No 1913/2006 laying down detailed rules for the
application of the agrimonetary system for the euro in agriculture

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2799/98 of 15
December 1998 establishing agrimonetary arrangements for the
euro (1), and in particular Article 9 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

A drafting error slipped in Article 5(4) of Commission
Regulation (EC) No 1913/2006 (2) as regards the deter-
mination of the operative event for the aid granted for
supplying certain milk products provided for in Article 1
of Commission Regulation (EC) No 2707/2000 of 11
applying
December 2000 laying down rules
regards
Council Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 as
Community aid for supplying milk and certain milk
products to pupils in educational establishments (3).
It
is appropriate to correct this error so as to avoid any
misleading interpretation.

for

The wording in Article 11(c) of Regulation (EC) No
1913/2006 appears as redundant with Article 6. For
the sake of clarity the words ‘in which the operative
for the exchange rate is 1 October’ should be
event
deleted from that provision.

The codification procedure of Commission Regulation
(EEC) No 2825/93 of 15 October 1993 laying down
certain detailed rules for the application of Council Regu-
lation (EEC) No 1766/92 as regards the fixing and
granting of adjusted refunds
cereals
exported in the form of certain spirit drinks (4) and of
Commission Regulation (EC) No 562/2000 of 15 March
2000 laying down detailed rules for the application of
Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 as regards the
buying-in of beef (5) has been finalised before adoption

in respect of

and publication of Regulation (EC) No 1913/2006. Regu-
lations (EEC) No 2825/93 and (EC) No 562/2000 have
been repealed and replaced from 30 November 2006
respectively
(EC) No
by Commission Regulation
1670/2006 (codified version) (6) and Commission Regu-
lation (EC) No 1669/2006 (codified version) (7). The
references to Regulation (EEC) No 2825/93 and Regu-
lation (EC) No 562/2000 are consecutively obsolete and
should therefore be corrected in Regulation (EC) No
1913/2006.

The amendment and corrections provided for in this
Regulation should apply from the same date as the
amended Regulation.

Regulation (EC) No 1913/2006 should be amended and
corrected accordingly.

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of the relevant Management
Committees,

(4)

(5)

(6)

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 1913/2006 is amended as follows:

1.

in Article 5, paragraph 4 is replaced by the following:

‘4.
For aid granted for supplying certain milk products to
pupils as referred to in Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No
2707/2000, the operative event for the exchange rate shall
be the first day of the period to which the payment appli-
cation referred to in Article 11 of that Regulation relates.’;

2.

in Article 11, point (c) is replaced by the following text:

(1) OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 365, 21.12.2006, p. 52.
(3) OJ L 311, 12.12.2000, p. 37. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 704/2007 (OJ L 161, 22.6.2007, p. 31).

(4) OJ L 258, 16.10.1993, p. 6. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1913/2006.

(5) OJ L 68, 16.3.2000, p. 22. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1913/2006.

‘(c)

for the minimum price for beet referred to in Article 6,
the average rate established by the European Central
Bank (ECB) for the month prior to the operative event.’;

(6) OJ L 312, 11.11.2006, p. 33.
(7) OJ L 312, 11.11.2006, p. 6.

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3. Article 18 is replaced by the following:

‘Article 21

‘Article 18

Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1670/2006

Article 6(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1670/2006 is replaced by
the following:

“2.
The rate of the refund shall be that applicable on the
day on which the cereals are placed under control. However,
as regards the quantities distilled in each of the fiscal distil-
lation periods following that in which the placing under
control occurred, the rate shall be that applicable on the
first day of each fiscal distillation period concerned.

The operative event for the exchange rate applicable to the
referred to in Article 1(1) of
refund shall be
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1913/2006 (*).

that

Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1669/2006

Article 16 of Regulation (EC) No 1669/2006 is replaced by
the following:

“Article 16

Exchange rate

The operative event for the exchange rate applicable to the
amount and to the prices referred to in Article 11 and to the
security referred to in Article 9 shall be those referred to in
point
(a) of Article 8 and in Article 10 respectively of
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1913/2006 (*).

___________
(*) OJ L 365, 21.12.2006, p. 52.” ’

Article 2

___________
(*) OJ L 365, 21.12.2006, p. 52.” ’;

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

4. Article 21 is replaced by the following:

It shall apply from 1 January 2007.

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

Done at Brussels, 24 July 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission