Commission Regulation (EC) No 1146/2007 of 2 October 2007 adopting the plan allocating to the Member States resources to be charged to the 2008 budget year for the supply of food from intervention stocks for the benefit of the most deprived persons in the Community
Date: 2007-10-02
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, agricultural product, aid to disadvantaged groups, financial year, food aid, intervention stock

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1146/2007

of 2 October 2007

adopting the plan allocating to the Member States resources to be charged to the 2008 budget year
for the supply of food from intervention stocks for the benefit of the most deprived persons in the
Community

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

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,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2799/98 of 15
December 1998 establishing agrimonetary arrangements for the
euro (2), and in particular Article 3(2) thereof,

Whereas:

In accordance with Article 2 of Commission Regulation
(EEC) No 3149/92 laying down detailed rules for the
supply of food from intervention stocks for the benefit
of the most deprived persons in the Community (3), the
Commission must adopt a distribution plan to be
financed from resources available in the 2008 budget
year. The plan should lay down in particular, for each
the
of
maximum financial resources available to carry out its
part of
the plan, and the quantity of each type of
product to be withdrawn from the stocks held by the
intervention agencies.

applying the measure,

the Member States

The Member States involved in the plan for the 2008
budget year have supplied the information required in
accordance with Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No
3149/92.

(1)

(2)

(3)

the

stocks of

Article 2(3)(c) of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 provides
for the allocation of resources for the purchase on the
market of products temporarily unavailable in inter-
vention stocks. Given that
cereals,
skimmed-milk powder and rice currently held by the
intervention agencies are very low and that measures
have already been taken, regarding both their sale on
the market and their distribution under Regulation
(EEC) No 3149/92, and given the fact that no sale of
these foods is planned for 2007, these resource allo-
cations should be fixed to enable the purchase on the
market of cereals, skimmed-milk powder and rice as
required to implement the plan for the 2008 budget
year.

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

in which

transfer between Member

Article 7(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 provides for
the
States of products
unavailable in the intervention stocks of the Member
to
State
implement
the annual plan. Accordingly the intra-
Community transfers necessary to implement the plan
for 2008 should be authorised, subject to the conditions
laid down in Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92.

products

required

such

are

To implement the plan, the operative event within the
meaning of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 2799/98
should be the date on which the financial year for
administration of stocks in public storage starts.

In accordance with Article 2(2) of Regulation (EEC) No
3149/92, the Commission has consulted the major orga-
nisations familiar with the problems of the most deprived
persons in the Community when drawing up the plan.

The Management Committee
for Cereals has not
delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its
chairman,

For the purposes of resource allocation, account must be
taken of experience and of
the degree to which the
Member States used the resources allocated to them in
previous years.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

(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 349, 24.12.1998, p. 1.
(3) ОJ L 313, 30.10.1992, р. 50. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

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

In 2008, the distribution of food to the most deprived persons
in the Community under Regulation (EEC) No 3730/87 shall be
implemented in accordance with the annual distribution plan
set out in Annex I to this Regulation.

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Article 2

Article 4

Allocations to Member States for
the purchase of cereals,
skimmed-milk powder and rice on the market, as required
under the plan referred to in Article 1, shall be as set out in
Annex II.

For the purpose of implementing the annual plan referred to in
Article 1 of this Regulation, the date of the operative event
within the meaning of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No
2799/98 shall be 1 October 2007.

Article 3

to this Regulation shall be authorised,

The intra-Community transfer of the products listed in Annex
to the
III
conditions laid down in Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No
3149/92.

subject

Article 5

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 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, 2 October 2007.

For the Commission

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

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ANNEX I

ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION PLAN FOR 2008

(a) Financial resources made available to implement the plan in each Member State:

(in EUR)

Member State

Belgique/België

България

Česká republika

Eesti

Éire/Ireland

Elláda

España

France

Italia

Latvija

Lietuva

Luxembourg

Magyarország

Malta

Polska

Portugal

România

Slovenija

Suomi/Finland

Distribution

8 461 690

6 883 712

155 443

192 388

155 965

13 228 830

50 419 083

48 605 224

66 367 975

153 910

4 249 149

81 090

7 788 270

360 603

47 640 750

12 568 188

23 126 824

1 429 303

2 631 603

Total

294 500 000

(b) Quantity of each type of product to be withdrawn from Community intervention stocks for distribution in each

Member State subject to the maximum amounts laid down in (a):

(tonnes)

Member State

Belgique/België

България

Česká republika

España

France

Italia

Lietuva

Sugar

4 154

6 385

67

6 500

3 718

7 000

2 889

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(tonnes)

Member State

Magyarország

Malta

Polska

Portugal

România

Slovenija

Total

Sugar

1 544

397

14 826

1 627

15 157

769

65 034

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ANNEX II

Allocations to Member States for purchase on the Community market, subject to the maximum amounts laid down in
Annex I(a):

(in EUR)

Member State

Cereals

Rice

Skimmed-milk powder

Belgique/België

България

Česká republika

Eesti

Éire/Ireland

Elláda

España

France

Italia

Latvija

Lietuva

Luxembourg

Magyarország

Malta

Polska

Portugal

România

Slovenija

Suomi/Finland

2 120 960

1 990 461

36 472

182 358

4 535 189

11 144 100

8 718 857

10 637 550

145 886

1 463 223

5 713 309

62 275

16 569 956

1 208 732

15 355 270

173 087

1 620 960

800 000

1 768 251

1 800 000

5 225 181

2 800 000

606 607

25 078

1 423 588

102 509

3 300 000

81 843

147 834

8 003 986

32 030 700

30 516 427

46 438 083

706 455

76 864

1 000 000

82 327

22 164 340

8 575 856

746 140

873 450

Total

81 678 645

14 551 214

154 744 304

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Intra-Community transfers of sugar authorised under the plan for the 2008 budget year

ANNEX III

Quantity
(tonnes)

3 718

2 889

6 385

14 826

15 157

769

397

Holder

Recipient

BIRB, Belgique

BIRB, Belgique

ONIGC, France

The Lithuanian Agricultural and Food Products
Market regulation Agency, Lietuva

MVH, Magyarország

ДФЗ, България

MVH, Magyarország

ARR, Polska

MVH, Magyarország

APIA, România

MVH, Magyarország

AAMRD, Slovenija

AGEA, Italia

National Research and Development Centre,
Malta

1 627

FEGA, España

INGA, Portugal

1.

2.

3.

4.

5.

6.

7.

8.