Commission Regulation (EC) No 1276/2007 of 29 October 2007 amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, Council Regulation (EC) No 247/2006 and Commission Regulation (EC) No 552/2007, as regards the fixing of budgetary ceilings for 2007
Date: 2007-10-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aid system, aid to agriculture, common agricultural policy, management accounting, production aid

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1276/2007

of 29 October 2007

amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, Council Regulation (EC) No 247/2006 and
Commission Regulation (EC) No 552/2007, as regards the fixing of budgetary ceilings for 2007

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

down respectively, for the 2007 calendar year in each
case, the budgetary ceilings for direct payments to be
granted in accordance with Articles 66 to 69 of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1782/2003, the budgetary ceilings for
direct payments
to be granted in accordance with
Article 70 of that Regulation and the budgetary ceilings
for the Single Payment Scheme.

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 of 29
September 2003 establishing common rules for direct support
schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing
certain support schemes for farmers and amending Regulations
(EEC) No 2019/93, (EC) No 1452/2001, (EC) No 1453/2001,
(EC) No 1454/2001, (EC) No 1868/94, (EC) No 1251/1999,
(EC) No 1254/1999, (EC) No 1673/2000, (EEC) No 2358/71
and (EC) No 2529/2001 (1), and in particular Articles 64(2) and
70(2) thereof,

(4)

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 247/2006 of 30
January 2006 laying down specific measures for agriculture in
the outermost regions of the Union (2), and in particular the
second sentence of Article 20(3) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 sets for
each Member State the national ceilings which cannot be
exceeded by the reference amounts mentioned in Chapter
2 of Title III of that Regulation.

(5)

Article 23(2) of Regulation (EC) No 247/2006 sets the
annual maximum amounts up to which the Community
finances the measures provided for in Titles II and III of
that Regulation.

Annexes I, II and III to Commission Regulation (EC) No
552/2007 of 22 May 2007 establishing the maximum
the work
contribution
to
Community
financing
sector and fixing,
programmes
for
in the olive oil
the partial or optional
2007, budgetary ceilings for
implementation of the Single Payment Scheme and the
annual financial envelopes for the Single Area Payment
Scheme, provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No
1782/2003,
lay

that Regulation (3),

and amending

(6)

(1) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 1182/2007 (OJ L 273, 17.10.2007, p. 1).

(2) OJ L 42, 14.2.2006, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation

(EC) No 2013/2006 (OJ L 384, 29.12.2006, p. 13).

(3) OJ L 131, 23.5.2007, p. 10.

the

the

financing of

In accordance with the first sentence of Article 20(3) of
Regulation (EC) No 247/2006, Portugal has decided to
reduce for 2007 the national ceiling for suckler cow
premium rights and to transfer
corresponding
financial amount in order to reinforce the Community
contribution, provided for in Article 23 of Regulation
the
towards
(EC) No 247/2006,
specific measures laid down in that Regulation. Conse-
quently,
from the national
ceiling for Portugal for 2007, set in Annex VIII to Regu-
lation (EC) No 1782/2003, the amount which is to be
added to the financial amount set in Article 23(2) of
the
Regulation (EC) No 247/2006 and to reduce
budgetary ceilings applicable in Portugal
for 2007 to
the suckler cow premium,
including the supplement
thereto, and to the beef and veal payments (Article 69
of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003), set in Annex I to
Regulation (EC) No 552/2007.

is necessary to deduct

it

to in Title

In accordance with a decision taken by Portugal, the
amounts deriving from the dairy premium and additional
payments, provided for in Articles 95 and 96 of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1782/2003, were included in the Single
Payment Scheme as from 2007. It is on this basis that
the budgetary ceiling for the Single Payment Scheme
referred
III of Regulation (EC) No
1782/2003 was calculated for 2007 for Portugal. This
to Regulation (EC) No
ceiling was set
552/2007. However, when the budgetary ceilings were
set for 2007, the exclusion from the Single Payment
Scheme of dairy premiums and additional payments for
farmers in the Azores and Madeira, in accordance with
Article 70(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, was
not taken into account.

in Annex III

Single

Payment

The budgetary ceilings applicable for 2007 in Portugal to
the direct payments to be granted in accordance with
Article 70 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and to
should therefore be
Scheme
the
amended by deducting from Annex III
to Regulation
(EC) No 552/2007 an amount corresponding to the
amounts relating to the dairy premium and additional
payments to milk producers, and by adding them to
Annex II to that Regulation.

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(7)

(8)

(9)

to implement
Spain decided, before 1 August 2004,
partially the Single Payment Scheme under the conditions
laid down in Articles 64 to 69 of Regulation (EC) No
1782/2003, including those for beef and veal payments.
However, under Article 8 of Council Regulation (EC) No
1083/2006 of 11 July 2006 laying down general
provisions on the European Regional Development
the European Social Fund and the Cohesion
Fund,
and repealing Regulation 1260/1999 (1),
the
Fund,
Spanish region of Cantabria cannot, as from 2007,
benefit from the transitional aid provided for in that
the national premium supple-
Article. Consequently,
menting the suckler cow premium provided for
in
Article 125(5) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and
granted to holdings situated in the Spanish region of
Cantabria cannot be financed by the EAGF as from
2007.
continued Community
support for suckler cows, Spain has requested that an
amount corresponding to the payments made under
the additional national premium in Cantabria up to
2006 be transferred from the ceiling set for 2007 in
Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 552/2007 for the addi-
tional national premium to the ceiling set in that Annex
the suckler cow premium. The above-mentioned
for
budgetary ceilings should therefore be adjusted.

to ensure

In order

Regulations (EC) No 1782/2003, (EC) No 247/2006 and
(EC) No 552/2007 should be amended accordingly.

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 2

In the table in Article 23(2) of Regulation (EC) No 247/2006,
the amount relating to the Azores and Madeira for the 2008
budget year is replaced by ‘86,98’.

Article 3

Regulation (EC) No 552/2007 is amended as follows:

1. Annex I is amended as follows:

(a)

the amount for the ‘Suckler cow premium’ for Spain is
replaced by ‘261 153’;

(b) the amount for the ‘Additional suckler cow premium’ for

Spain is replaced by ‘26 000’;

(c)

the amount for the ‘Suckler cow premium’ for Portugal is
replaced by ‘78 695’;

(d) the amount for the ‘Additional suckler cow premium’ for

Portugal is replaced by ‘9 462’;

(e)

the amount for ‘Article 69, beef and veal’ for Portugal is
replaced by ‘1 681’;

2. Annex II is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Regu-

lation;

3.

in Annex III, the amount concerning Portugal is replaced by
‘413 774’.

Article 1

Article 4

In Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, the amount
concerning Portugal for 2007 is replaced by ‘570 997’.

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, 29 October 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 210, 31.7.2006, p. 25. Regulation as amended by Regulation
(EC) No 1989/2006 (OJ L 411, 30.12.2006, p. 6), corrected by OJ
L 27, 2.2.2007, p. 5).

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