2007/719/EC: Commission Decision of 6 November 2007 fixing, for the 2007/2008 marketing year and in respect of a certain number of hectares, an indicative financial allocation by Member State for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards under Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999 (notified under document number C(2007) 5293)
Date: 2007-11-06
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 6 November 2007

fixing, for the 2007/2008 marketing year and in respect of a certain number of hectares, an
indicative financial allocation by Member State for the restructuring and conversion of vineyards
under Council Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999

(notified under document number C(2007) 5293)

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

(2007/719/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(5)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

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

the market

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

for
are

The rules
the restructuring and conversion of
laid down in Regulation (EC) No
vineyards
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).

(6)

(7)

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.

In accordance with Article 14(3) of Regulation (EC) No
the financial allocation between Member
1493/1999,
States must take due account of the proportion of the
Community
State
concerned.

in the Member

vineyard

area

For the purposes of implementing Article 14(4) of Regu-
lation (EC) No 1493/1999,
the financial allocations
should be made in respect of a certain number of
hectares.

regards

Under Article 1 of Commission Regulation (EC) No
968/2007 of 17 August 2007 as
the
Community contribution to the costs of restructuring
and conversion provided for in Council Regulation (EC)
No 1493/1999 for the 2007/2008 wine year (3), Article
13(3) is applicable, for the 2007/2008 wine year and
with certain exceptions,
to the regions eligible for
financing under the convergence objective in accordance
with Council Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 of 11 July
2006 laying down general provisions on the European
Regional Development Fund, the European Social Fund
and the Cohesion Fund and repealing Regulation (EC) No
1260/1999 (4). As a result, the Community contribution
to the costs of restructuring and conversion may be
higher in the convergence regions.

Account must be taken of the compensation for the loss
of
income incurred by the wine growers during the
period when the vineyard is not yet in production.

the initial allocation,

in the 2007/2008 wine year

In accordance with Article 17(5) of Regulation (EC) No
1227/2000, where expenditure actually incurred by a
Member State in a given financial year is less than
the expenditure to be
75 % of
recognised for the following financial year, and the corre-
sponding total area, are to be reduced by a third of the
difference between this threshold and the actual expen-
diture incurred during the financial year in question. This
to
provision applies
Germany and to Greece, whose expenditure in respect
of 2007 amounts to 74 % of their initial allocation, to
Luxembourg, whose expenditure in respect of 2007
to Malta,
amounts to 71 % of
to
whose expenditure in respect of 2007 amounts
40 % of
its initial allocation, and to Slovakia, whose
expenditure in respect of 2007 amounts to 27 % of its
initial allocation. Under Article 1(3) of Commission
Regulation (EC) No 922/2007 of 1 August 2007 dero-
gating from Regulation (EC) No 1227/2000 as regards
transitional arrangements concerning the financial allo-
cations for Bulgaria and Romania for the restructuring
and conversion (5),
this reduction does not apply to
Bulgaria and Romania for the 2007/2008 wine year.

its initial allocation,

(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).

(3) OJ L 215, 18.8.2007, p. 4.
(4) OJ L 210, 31.7.2006, p. 25. Regulation as amended by Regulation

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

(EC) No 1989/2006 (OJ L 411, 30.12.2006, p. 6).

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

(5) OJ L 201, 2.8.2007, p. 7.

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(8)

In accordance with Article 14(2) of Regulation (EC) No
1493/1999, the initial allocation should be adapted in
view of real expenditure and on the basis of revised
expenditure forecasts submitted by the Member States,
the scheme and
the objective of
taking account of
subject to the funds available,

HAS ADOPTED 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 Slovak Republic.

Article 1

Done at Brussels, 6 November 2007.

The indicative financial allocations by Member State, in respect
for the restructuring and
of a certain number of hectares,
conversion of vineyards under Regulation (EC) No 1493/1999
for the 2007/2008 marketing year shall be as set out in the
Annex hereto.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

Indicative financial allocations for the 2007/2008 marketing year

Member State

Area (ha)

Financial allocation (EUR)

Bulgaria

Czech Republic

Germany

Greece

Spain

France

Italy

Cyprus

Luxembourg

Hungary

Malta

Austria

Portugal

Romania

Slovenia

Slovakia

2 403

647

1 545

886

20 233

14 384

12 279

156

7

1 472

9

1 170

4 004

3 008

139

473

18 044 087

10 897 834

13 295 911

8 715 834

162 136 325

110 676 302

101 107 716

2 219 214

56 800

11 779 162

103 987

6 678 313

34 729 863

25 068 762

2 699 939

1 789 952

Total

62 816

510 000 000