Commission Regulation (EC) No 329/2008 of 10 April 2008 amending Regulation (EC) No 552/2007 as regards the fixing of budgetary ceilings for 2007
Date: 2008-04-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aid system, aid to agriculture, common agricultural policy, management accounting, production aid

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 329/2008

of 10 April 2008

amending 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

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
and
establishing
amending
(EC)
No 1452/2001,
(EC) No 1454/2001,
(EC) No 1868/94, (EC) No 1251/1999, (EC) No 1254/1999,
(EC)
(EC) No
No 2529/2001 (1), and in particular Article 64(2) thereof,

certain
Regulations

(EC) No 1453/2001,

schemes
No

1673/2000,

(EEC) No

2019/93,

2358/71

support

farmers

(EEC)

and

for

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

Annex I to Commission Regulation (EC) No 552/2007 of
22 May 2007 establishing the maximum Community
contribution to financing the work programmes in the
olive oil sector and fixing, for 2007, budgetary ceilings
for the partial or optional 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, and amending that
Regulation (2)
the budgetary
ceilings for direct payments to be granted in accordance
with Articles
(EC)
No 1782/2003.

lays down,

for 2007,

Regulation

66

69

to

of

In accordance with Article 64(1) of Regulation (EC)
No 1782/2003, France decided to partially implement
the Single Payment Scheme under the conditions laid
down in particular in Article 68(2)(a)(i) of that Regu-
lation as regards the additional payment for maintaining
suckler cows. However, under Article 8(4) of Council
Regulation (EC) No 1083/2006 (3), which lays down
general provisions on the European Regional Develop-
ment
Fund and the
European Social
Cohesion Fund,
the French regions of Corsica and
Hainault cannot, as from 2007, benefit from the tran-

Fund,

the

the

suckler

sitional aid provided for in that Article. Consequently, the
national premium supplementing
cow
premium provided for in Article 125(5) of Regulation
(EC) No 1782/2003 and granted to holdings situated
in the French regions of Corsica and Hainault cannot
be financed by the EAGF as from 1 January 2007. In
order
for
to ensure continued Community support
suckler cows, France has requested that an amount corre-
sponding to the payments made under the additional
national premium in Corsica and Hainault up to 2006
be transferred from the ceiling set for 2007 in Annex I
to Regulation (EC) No 552/2007 for
the additional
national premium to the ceiling set in that Annex for
the
abovementioned
cow premium.
budgetary ceilings should therefore be adjusted.

suckler

The

(3)

Regulation (EC) No 552/2007 should be amended
accordingly.

(4)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 552/2007 is hereby amended as
follows:

(a)

the amount for the ‘Suckler cow premium’ for France is
replaced by ‘734 416’;

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

France is replaced by ‘0’.

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

Regulation (EC) No 293/2008 (OJ L 90, 2.4.2008, p. 5).

(2) OJ L 131, 23.5.2007, p. 10. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1276/2007 (OJ L 284, 30.10.2007, p. 11).

(3) 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).

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publi-
cation in the Official Journal of the European Union.

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This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 10 April 2008.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission