2007/653/EC: Commission Decision of 8 October 2007 fixing, for the 2007 financial year and in respect of a certain number of hectares, the definitive financial allocations to Member States for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards under Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 (notified under document number C(2007) 4524)
Date: 2007-10-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, agricultural expenditure, aid per hectare, redevelopment aid, redirection of production, vineyard

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 8 October 2007

fixing, for the 2007 financial year and in respect of a certain number of hectares, the definitive
financial allocations to Member States for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards under
Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999

(notified under document number C(2007) 4524)

(Only the Bulgarian, Spanish, Czech, German, Greek, French, Italian, Hungarian, Maltese, Portuguese, Romanian,
Slovak and Slovenian texts are authentic)

(2007/653/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

The Commission fixed the financial allocations for the
in Commission Decision
2006/07 marketing
2006/701/EC (3) and,
in
Commission Decision 2007/381/EC (4).

year
for Bulgaria and Romania,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the common organisation of
in
wine (1), and in particular Article 14(2) thereof,

the market

(5)

Under Article 17(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1227/2000,
expenditure incurred and validated by the Member States
is limited to the amount of their indicative allocations.
This limit applies in 2007 only to Italy, whose incurred
and validated expenditure together exceeded its initial
allocation.

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

for
are

the restructuring and conversion of
The rules
vineyards
laid down in Regulation (EC) No
1493/1999 and Commission Regulation (EC) No
1227/2000 of 31 May 2000 laying down detailed
rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No
1493/1999 on the common organisation of the market
in wine, as regards production potential (2).

The detailed rules on financial planning and participation
in financing the restructuring and conversion scheme laid
down in Regulation (EC) No 1227/2000 stipulate that
the references to a given financial year refer to the
payments actually made by the Member States between
16 October and the following 15 October.

(6)

(7)

In accordance with Article 14(1) of Regulation (EC) No
1493/1999, the Commission makes initial allocations to
Member States each year on the basis of objective
criteria,
taking into account particular situations and
needs and the efforts to be undertaken in the light of
the objective of the scheme.

Under Article 17(4), a penalty is applied where the actual
per hectare expenditure of a Member State exceeds that
laid down in the initial allocation. This year, penalties of
EUR 16 690 apply to Malta.

Under Article 16(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 1227/2000,
Member States may submit a further request
in the
current
financial year. The Czech Republic, Spain,
France, Italy, Hungary, Austria and Portugal have done
so. Under Article 1(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No
922/2007 of 1 August 2007 derogating from Regulation
(EC) No 1227/2000 as regards transitional arrangement
concerning the financial allocations for Bulgaria and
conversion (5),
Romania
restructuring
Bulgaria and Romania may apply to the Commission,
for a further contribution to expenditure in the 2007
financial year above that notified to the Commission
under Article 16(1)(a) and (b) of that Regulation, and
up to 90 % of the financial allocation awarded to them
by Decision 2007/381/EC. Bulgaria has indeed lodged
such an application with the Commission.

and

the

for

(1) OJ L 179, 14.7.1999, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1791/2006 (OJ L 363, 20.12.2006, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 143, 16.6.2000, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1216/2005 (OJ L 199, 29.7.2005, p. 32).

(3) OJ L 290, 20.10.2006, p. 41.
(4) OJ L 141, 2.6.2007, p. 80.
(5) OJ L 201, 2.8.2007, p. 7.

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(8)

(9)

Under Article 17(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1227/2000
and Article 1(2) of Regulation (EC) No 922/2007, appli-
cations for further funding sent to the Commission by
Member States other than Bulgaria and Romania are
accepted on a pro-rata basis, using the appropriations
available after deducting for all Member States
the
amounts notified in accordance with Article 16(1)(a)
and (b) of Regulation (EC) No 1227/2000 and the
amounts notified by Bulgaria and Romania in accordance
with that provision and Article 1(1) of Regulation (EC)
No 922/2007 from the total amount allocated to the
Member States. This provision applies in 2007 to the
Czech Republic, Spain, France,
Italy, Hungary, Austria
and Portugal.

to forward

the Member

Article 16(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1227/2000
requires
to the
States
later than 10 July of each year, a
Commission, not
statement of restructuring and conversion expenditure
validated as at 30 June of the current financial year, as
well as the total area involved. Article 17(2) of
that
Regulation lays down that Member States are to make
the statement referred to in Article 16(1)(b) only if the
amount which they have declared in accordance with
Article 16(1)(a), i.e. the expenditure actually incurred as
at 30 June of the current financial year, is at least equal
to 75 % of
the indicative amount allocated to the
Member State concerned. The expenditure validated by
Germany cannot be accepted as the expenditure actually
incurred did not reach 75 % of its initial allocations,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The definitive financial allocations to the Member States for the
2006/07 marketing year,
in respect of a certain number of
hectares,
for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards
under Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999, for the period in the
2007 financial year, shall be as set out in the Annex to this
Decision.

Article 2

the

the
This Decision is addressed to the Republic of Bulgaria,
Czech Republic,
the
Federal Republic of Germany,
Hellenic Republic, the Kingdom of Spain, the French Republic,
the Italian Republic, the Republic of Cyprus, the Grand Duchy
of Luxembourg, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta,
the Republic of Austria, the Portuguese Republic, Romania, the
Republic of Slovenia and the Republic of Slovakia.

Done at Brussels, 8 October 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

Definitive financial allocations for the 2006/07 marketing year (2007 financial year)

Member State

Bulgaria

Czech Republic

Germany

Greece

Spain

France

Italy

Cyprus

Luxembourg

Hungary

Malta

Austria

Portugal

Romania

Slovenia

Slovakia

Area (ha)

1 918

1 345

1 410

823

20 345

12 769

13 142

145

8

1 242

4

1 074

4 117

880

108

107

Financial allocation (EUR)

6 030 464

3 178 866

9 385 538

6 420 790

165 870 765

111 282 822

100 479 369

1 971 461

59 665

9 940 855

26 249

6 501 073

34 284 676

6 893 688

2 120 499

536 527

Total

59 438

464 983 308