2008/54/EC: Commission Decision of 20 December 2007 on the clearance of the accounts of certain paying agencies in Germany, Spain, France, Italy and Luxembourg and concerning expenditure financed by the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), Guarantee Section, for the 2004 financial year (notified under document number C(2007) 6532)
Date: 2007-12-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EAGGF Guarantee Section, France, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, agricultural expenditure, closing of accounts

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Official Journal of the European Union

17.1.2008

COMMISSION DECISION

of 20 December 2007

on the clearance of the accounts of certain paying agencies in Germany, Spain, France, Italy and
Luxembourg and concerning expenditure financed by the European Agricultural Guidance and
Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), Guarantee Section, for the 2004 financial year

(notified under document number C(2007) 6532)

(Only the German, Spanish, French and Italian texts are authentic)

(2008/54/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

In accordance with the second subparagraph of Article
7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999, this Decision
does not prejudice decisions adopted subsequently by
the Commission excluding from Community financing
expenditure
with
not
Community rules,

accordance

effected

in

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The accounts of the German paying agency ‘Bayern-Umwelt’,
the Spanish paying agency ‘Madrid’, the French paying agency
‘SDE’, the Italian paying agency ‘AGEA’ and the Luxembourg
paying agency ‘Ministère de l’Agriculture’ concerning expen-
diture financed by the European Agricultural Guidance and
Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), Guarantee Section,
for the 2004
financial year are hereby cleared.

The amounts which are recoverable from, or payable to, each of
the Member States concerned pursuant to this Decision are set
out in the Annex.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of Germany,
the Kingdom of Spain, the French Republic, the Italian Republic
and the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Done at Brussels, 20 December 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999 of 17
May 1999 on the financing of
the common agricultural
policy (1), and in particular Article 7(3) thereof,

After consulting the Fund Committee,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

the accounts of all

Commission Decision 2005/385/EC (2) cleared, for the
2004 financial year,
the paying
agencies except for the German paying agency ‘Bayern-
Umwelt’, the Spanish paying agency ‘Madrid’, the French
paying agency ‘SDE’, the Italian paying agency ‘AGEA’
and the Luxembourg paying agency ‘Ministère de l’Agri-
culture’.

Following the transmission of new information and after
the Commission can now take a
additional checks,
decision on the integrality, accuracy and veracity of the
submitted by the German paying agency
accounts
the Spanish paying agency ‘Madrid’,
‘Bayern-Umwelt’,
the French paying agency ‘SDE’,
the Italian paying
agency ‘AGEA’ and the Luxembourg paying agency
‘Ministère de l’Agriculture’.

the

accounts of

In clearing
agencies
concerned, the Commission must take account of the
amounts already withheld from the Member States
concerned on the basis of Decision 2005/385/EC.

the paying

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 103.
(2) OJ L 127, 20.5.2005, p. 22.

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