2008/53/EC: Commission Decision of 20 December 2007 on the clearance of the accounts of certain paying agencies in Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and Portugal concerning expenditure financed by the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), Guarantee Section, for the 2005 financial year (notified under document number C(2007) 6531)
Date: 2007-12-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EAGGF Guarantee Section, Germany, Italy, Luxembourg, Portugal, agricultural expenditure, closing of accounts

17.1.2008

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

L 14/5

(Acts adopted under the EC Treaty/Euratom Treaty whose publication is not obligatory)

II

DECISIONS

COMMISSION

COMMISSION DECISION

of 20 December 2007

on the clearance of the accounts of certain paying agencies in Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and
Portugal concerning expenditure financed by the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee
Fund (EAGGF), Guarantee Section, for the 2005 financial year

(notified under document number C(2007) 6531)

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

(2008/53/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

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:

(3)

(4)

decision on the integrality, accuracy and veracity of the
accounts
submitted by the German paying agency
‘Bayern-Umwelt’, the Italian paying agency ‘AGEA’, the
Luxembourg paying agency ‘Ministère de l’Agriculture’
and the Portuguese paying agency ‘IFADAP’.

the

accounts of

agencies
In clearing
concerned, the Commission must take account of the
amounts already withheld from the Member States
concerned on the basis of Decision 2006/322/EC.

the paying

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

(1)

Decisions

2006/322/EC (2)

and
Commission
2007/326/EC (3) cleared,
for the 2005 financial year,
the accounts of all the paying agencies except for the
German paying agency ‘Bayern-Umwelt’,
Italian
paying agency ‘AGEA’, the Luxembourg paying agency
‘Ministère de l’Agriculture’ and the Portuguese paying
agency ‘IFADAP’.

the

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

(2)

Following the transmission of new information and after
the Commission can now take a
additional checks,

(1) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 103.
(2) OJ L 118, 3.5.2006, p. 20.
(3) OJ L 122, 11.5.2007, p. 47.

Article 1
The accounts of the German paying agency ‘Bayern-Umwelt’,
the Italian paying agency ‘AGEA’,
the Luxembourg paying
agency ‘Ministère de l’Agriculture’ and the Portuguese paying
agency ‘IFADAP’
financed by the
concerning expenditure
European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF),
Guarantee Section,
for the 2005 financial year are hereby
cleared.

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EN

Official Journal of the European Union

17.1.2008

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.

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

Article 2

Done at Brussels, 20 December 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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Official Journal of the European Union

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