Commission Regulation (EC) No 937/2007 of 6 August 2007 amending Regulation (EC) No 1539/2006 adopting a plan allocating resources to the Member States to be charged against 2007 budget year for the supply of food from intervention stocks for the benefit of the most deprived persons in the Community, and derogating from Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92
Date: 2007-08-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, aid to disadvantaged groups, food aid, foodstuff, intervention stock, poverty

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 937/2007

of 6 August 2007

amending Regulation (EC) No 1539/2006 adopting a plan allocating resources to the Member States
to be charged against 2007 budget year for the supply of food from intervention stocks for the
benefit of the most deprived persons in the Community, and derogating from Regulation (EEC)
No 3149/92

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

the total butter quantity in the annual plan 2007.
Furthermore, certain cereals and sugar quantities are no
longer required for the 2007 plan.

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3730/87 of 10
December 1987 laying down the general rules for the supply of
food from intervention stocks to designated organisations for
distribution to the most deprived persons in the Community (1),
and in particular Article 6 thereof,

Whereas:

the

adopted,

Commission

In accordance with Article 2 of Commission Regulation
(EEC) No 3149/92 of 29 October 1992 laying down
detailed rules for the supply of food from intervention
stocks for the benefit of the most deprived persons in the
Community (2),
by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1539/2006 (3), a plan
allocating resources to the Member States to be charged
against the 2007 budget year for the supply of food
from intervention stocks for the benefit of
the most
deprived persons in the Community. The plan lays
down in particular,
the Member States
for each of
applying the measure, the maximum financial resources
available to carry out
the plan, and the
quantity of each type of product to be withdrawn from
the stocks held by the intervention agencies.

its part of

(4)

(5)

(6)

In accordance with Article 3(4) of Regulation (EEC) No
3149/92,
should be
allocated to other Member States on the basis of their
applications.

the newly available

resources

During the withdrawal operations of rice held in Greek
intervention,
it was discovered that the available quan-
tities were not sufficient to allow for the full implemen-
is therefore
tation of
necessary
intervention
products or grants for the purchase on the market of
products temporarily unavailable in intervention stocks.

the annual plan in Greece.
the
to adapt

It
allocation of

The first and second subparagraphs of Article 3(2) of
Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 set the deadlines for with-
drawal of the products from intervention stocks. As the
modification of
the plan allocates to Poland supple-
mentary quantities of 203 tonnes of cereals and 3 224
tonnes of sugar and to Slovenia a supplementary quantity
of 1 000 tonnes of cereals to be withdrawn from inter-
vention stocks, it is appropriate to derogate from those
deadlines as regards those quantities.

(7)

Regulation (EC) No 1539/2006 should therefore be
amended accordingly.

Article 3(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 requires a
the annual plan when changes occurring
revision of
the Member States
implementation by
its
during
concern 5 % or more of
the quantities or values
entered per product in the Community plan.

(8)

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

under-utilisation

The
the
Commission concerns more than 5 % of the value of

notified

butter

to

of

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

(1) OJ L 352, 15.12.1987, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 2535/95 (OJ L 260, 31.10.1995, p. 3).

(2) OJ L 313, 30.10.1992, p. 50. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 758/2007 (OJ L 172, 30.6.2007, p. 47).

(3) OJ L 283, 14.10.2006, p. 14. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 306/2007 (OJ L 81, 22.3.2007, p. 22).

Article 1

The annexes to Regulation (EC) No 1539/2006 are amended in
accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.

(1)

(2)

(3)

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Article 2

By way of derogation from Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92, the deadlines provided for in the first
subparagraph and in the first and in the fourth sentences of the second subparagraph of that Article shall
not apply for the supplementary quantities of 1 203 tonnes of cereals and 3 224 tonnes of sugar allocated
pursuant to the Annex to this Regulation.

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

Article 3

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

Done at Brussels, 6 August 2007.

For the Commission

Jean-Luc DEMARTY
Director-General for Agriculturel and
Rural Development

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The annexes to Regulation (EC) No 1539/2006 are amended as follows:

ANNEX

(1) Annex I is amended as follows:

(a) the table in point (a) is replaced by the following:

‘Member State

Allocation

(EUR)

Belgique/België

Eesti

Éire/Ireland

Elláda

España

France

Italia

Latvija

Lietuva

Luxembourg

Magyarország

Malta

Polska

Portugal

România

Slovenija

Suomi/Finland

5 817 428

324 891

217 997

6 689 132

50 340 744

49 940 164

70 764 888

18 446

3 273 261

80 707

7 896 638

384 898

42 884 522

14 904 058

16 649 889

1 929 341

2 709 509

Total

274 826 513’

(b) the table in point (b) is replaced by the following:

‘

Member State

Cereals

Rice (paddy rice)

Butter

(tonnes)

Sugar

2 000

Belgique/België

Eesti

Éire/Ireland

Elláda

España

12 000

3 000

11 760

110 000

80

2 755

12 000

6 443

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(tonnes)

Sugar

3 338

6 847

2 760

900

11 522

1 435

11 986

653

47 884’

Member State

Cereals

Rice (paddy rice)

Butter

23 641

20 000

6 500

3 570

France

Italia

Latvija

Lietuva

Magyarország

Malta

Polska

Portugal

România

Slovenija

Suomi/Finland

82 641

122 465

173

12 000

52 000

1 550

120 433

20 000

96 712

3 610

14 651

14 000

Total

662 995

60 396

(2) In Annex II, the table in point (a) is replaced by the following:

‘Member State

Belgique/België

Eesti

Elláda

France

Italia

Luxembourg

Magyarország

Malta

Polska

Portugal

Slovenija

Total

2 400

3 160

422

28 132

EUR

2 893 618

5 190

4 765 946

14 494 803

39 261 578

76 864

1 797 520

118 789

16 770 240

1 141 888

1 051 634

82 378 070’

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(3) Annex III is replaced by the following:

‘ANNEX III

Intra-Community transfers authorised under the plan for the 2007 budget

Product

Quantity
(tonnes)

Holder

Consignee

Common wheat

2 207

MMM, Suomi/Finland

Põllumajanduse Registrite ja
Informatsiooni Amet, Eesti

Common wheat

11 760

BLE, Deutschland

OPEKEPE, Elláda

Common wheat

110 000

ONIGC, France

FEGA, España

Common wheat

103 429

BLE, Deutschland

AGEA, Italia

Common wheat

19 036

AMA, Österreich

AGEA, Italia

Common wheat

5 637

MMM, Suomi/Finland

Common wheat

1 550

ONIGC, France

Agricultural and Food Products
Market
Agency,
Regulation
Lietuva

National Research and Devel-
opment Centre, Malta

Common wheat

20 000

ONIGC, France

INGA, Portugal

Common wheat

96 712

MVH, Magyarország

Paying and Intervention Agency
for Agriculture, România

Common wheat
and other
cereals

Rice

Rice

Rice

3 610

MVH, Magyarország

AAMRD, Slovenija

23 641

OPEKEPE, Elláda

ONIGC, France

20 000

OPEKEPE, Elláda

Ente Risi, Italia

14 000

OPEKEPE, Elláda

INGA, Portugal

Butter

3 511

Department of Agriculture
and Food, Ireland

Office de l'Elevage, France

Sugar

Sugar

Sugar

Sugar

3 338

FEGA, España

ONIGC, France

2 760

ARR, Polska

Agricultural and Food Products
Market
Agency,
Regulation
Lietuva

1 435

FEGA, España

INGA, Portugal

11 986

MVH, Magyarország

Paying and Intervention Agency
for Agriculture, România’

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