2007/680/EC: Commission Decision of 22 October 2007 amending Decision 2006/410/EC, setting the amounts which, pursuant to Articles 10(2), 143d and 143e of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, are made available to the EAFRD and the amounts available for EAGF expenditure, and Decision 2006/636/EC fixing the annual breakdown by Member State for Community support to rural development for the period from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2013 (notified under document number C(2007) 5106)
Date: 2007-10-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agricultural expenditure, budgetary reserve (EU), financial year, fund (EU), rural development

24.10.2007

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 22 October 2007

amending Decision 2006/410/EC, setting the amounts which, pursuant to Articles 10(2), 143d and
143e of Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, are made available to the EAFRD and the amounts
available for EAGF expenditure, and Decision 2006/636/EC fixing the annual breakdown by
Member State for Community support to rural development for the period from 1 January 2007
to 31 December 2013

(notified under document number C(2007) 5106)

(2007/680/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 of
21 June 2005 on the financing of the common agricultural
policy (1), and in particular Article 12(2) and (3) thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 of
for rural development by
20 September 2005 on support
the European Agricultural
Fund for Rural Development
(EAFRD) (2), and in particular Article 69(4) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Article 4(1) of Council Regulation (EC) No 378/2007 of
27 March 2007 laying down rules for voluntary modu-
lation of direct payments provided for in Regulation (EC)
No 1782/2003 establishing common rules for direct
support schemes under the common agricultural policy
and establishing certain support schemes for farmers, and
amending Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005, stipulates that
the Commission should set the net amounts resulting
from the application of voluntary modulation and that
these amounts should be incorporated into the annual
breakdown by Member State relating to Community
support
referred to in Arti-
cle 69(4) and (5) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005.

to rural development

the Commission should set

Article 12 of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 stipulates
the amounts which,
that
pursuant
to Article 4(1) of Regulation (EC) No
378/2007 and Articles 10(2), 143d and 143e of
Council Regulation
of 29
(EC) No
September 2003 establishing common rules for direct
support schemes under the common agricultural policy

1782/2003

(1) OJ L 209, 11.8.2005, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 378/2007 (OJ L 95, 5.4.2007, p. 1).

(3)

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

and establishing certain support schemes for farmers (3),
are made available to the EAFRD, and the net balance
available for EAGF expenditure.

The amounts to be made available to the EAFRD and the
net balance available for EAGF expenditure have to be set
on the basis of the maximum annual amounts corre-
sponding to the financial years 2007 to 2013.

Commission Decision 2006/410/EC (4) established the
amounts resulting from the application of the reductions
of direct payments provided for in Articles 10(2), 143d
and 143e of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, which are
made available to EAFRD, and the net balance available
for EAGF expenditure,
the financial years 2007
to 2013.

for

Council Decision 2006/493/EC (5) fixed the amount of
Community support to rural development for the period
from 1 January 2007 to 31 December 2013, its annual
breakdown and the minimum amount to be concen-
trated in regions
the Convergence
eligible under
Objective.

Commission Decision 2006/636/EC (6) established the
breakdown by Member State of Community support to
rural development for the period from 1 January 2007 to
31 December 2013, including as regards the amount of
the transfers to the EAFRD.

As a result of the adoption of Commission Decision
2007/679/EC 22 October 2007 fixing the net amounts
resulting from the application of voluntary modulation
to the United Kingdom for the calendar years 2007 to
2012 (7), under Article 4(1) of Regulation (EC) No
378/2007,
the amounts which are made available to
the EAFRD should be adjusted and added to the annual
breakdown for Community support to rural development
for the United Kingdom.

(3) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 552/2007 (OJ L 131, 23.5.2007,
p. 10).

(4) OJ L 163, 15.6.2006, p. 10.
(5) OJ L 195, 15.7.2006, p. 22.
(6) OJ L 261, 22.9.2006, p. 32. Decision as amended by Decision

(2) OJ L 277, 21.10.2005, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

2007/383/EC (OJ L 142, 5.6.2007, p. 21).

lation (EC) No 2012/2006 (OJ L 384, 29.12.2006, p. 8).

(7) See p. 25 of this Official Journal.

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(8)

Decisions
therefore be amended accordingly,

2006/410/EC and

2006/636/EC should

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Decision 2006/410/EC is amended as follows:

Article 2

In the table appearing in the Annex to Decision 2006/636/EC,
the amounts concerning the United Kingdom and the total
amounts resulting from the addition of the amounts concerning
the Member States are replaced by the amounts which
all
appear in Annex II to this Decision.

Article 3

1. The sole article is replaced by the following:

This Decision applies as from the budget year 2008.

‘Sole Article

The amounts available for the budget years 2007-13 to the
European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD)
pursuant to Articles 10(2), 143d and 143e of Regulation
(EC) No 1782/2003 and Article 1(1) of Regulation (EC)
No 378/2007, as well as the net balance available for
European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) expenditure,
are set out in the Annex to this Decision.’;

2. The Annex to the Decision is replaced by the text appearing

in Annex I to this Decision.

Article 4

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 22 October 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX I

‘ANNEX

Amounts available for EAFRD

Budget year

Article 10(2) of
Regulation (EC)
No 1782/2003

Article 143d of
Regulation (EC)
No 1782/2003

Article 143e of
Regulation (EC)
No 1782/2003

Article 1(1) of
Regulation (EC)
No 378/2007

2007

2008

2009

2010

2011

2012

2013

984

1 241

1 252

1 257

1 231

1 231

1 228

22

22

22

22

22

22

22

362,0

424,0

464,4

475,5

481,6

481,6

484

484

484

(EUR million):

Net balance available
for EAGF expen-
diture

44 753

44 592

44 981

45 402,6

45 404,5

45 874,4

46 358,4’

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