Commission Regulation (EC) No 674/2008 of 16 July 2008 modifying Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, Council Regulation (EC) No 247/2006 and establishing budgetary ceilings for 2008 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 Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003
Date: 2008-07-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, EU aid, aid system, aid to agriculture, common agricultural policy

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 674/2008

of 16 July 2008

modifying Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, Council Regulation (EC) No 247/2006 and
establishing budgetary ceilings for 2008 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 Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(3)

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

support

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
and
(EC) No
amending
1452/2001,
(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), 70(2), 143b(3), 143bc(1) and
the second subparagraph of Article 143bc(2) thereof,

certain
Regulations
(EC) No 1453/2001,

(EC) No 1454/2001,

for
2019/93,

(EEC) No

schemes

farmers

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)

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

Pursuant to the first sentence of Article 20(3) of Regu­
lation (EC) No 247/2006, Portugal decided to reduce the
national ceiling of suckler cow premium rights for 2008
and subsequent years and to transfer the corresponding
financial amount in order to strengthen the contribution
made by the Community, in accordance with Article 23
of Regulation (EC) No 247/2006, to financing specific
that Regulation. The
measures provided for under
national
for 2008 and for
for Portugal
subsequent years, as set out in Annex VIII to Regulation
(EC) No 1782/2003 should therefore be reduced by the
amount to be added to the financial sums established in
Article 23(2) of Regulation (EC) No 247/2006 for 2009
and subsequent budgetary years.

ceilings

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

lation (EC) No 615/2008 (OJ L 168, 28.6.2008, p. 1).

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

(9)

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

(EC) No 1276/2007 (OJ

last amended by
L 284,

Commission Regulation
30.10.2007, p. 11).

For Member States implementing in 2008 the Single
Payment Scheme provided for under Title III of Regu­
lation (EC) No 1782/2003, the budgetary ceilings for
each of the payments referred to in Articles 66 to 69
of that Regulation should be established for 2008 under
the conditions laid down in Section 2 of Chapter 5 of
Title III of the Regulation.

For Member States making use of the option provided
for in Article 70 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, the
budgetary ceilings applicable to the direct payments
excluded from the Single Payment Scheme should be
established for 2008.

For the sake of clarity, the 2008 budgetary ceilings for
the Single Payment Scheme should be published after the
revised ceilings included in Annex VIII to Regulation (EC)
No 1782/2003 have been deducted from the ceilings
established for payments referred to in Articles 66 to
70 of that Regulation.

For Member States implementing in 2008 the Single
Area Payment Scheme provided for in Title IVa of Regu­
financial
lation (EC) No 1782/2003,
envelopes for 2008 should be established in accordance
with Article 143b(3) of that Regulation.

annual

the

For the sake of clarity, the maximum amount of funds
available to Member States applying the Single Area
Payment Scheme for granting separate sugar payments
in 2008 under Article 143ba of Regulation (EC) No
their notifi­
1782/2003, established on the basis of
cations, should be published.

For the sake of clarity, the maximum amount of funds
available to Member States applying the Single Area
Payment
and
vegetable payments in 2008 under Article 143bb of
Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, established on the
basis of their notifications, should be published.

granting

separate

Scheme

fruit

for

For Member States applying the Single Area Payment
Scheme, the 2008 budgetary ceilings applicable to transi­
tional payments for fruit and vegetables in accordance
with Article 143bc(1) and (2) of Regulation (EC) No
1782/2003,
should therefore be established, on the
basis of their notifications.

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(10)

(11)

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

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

In Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, the sums
relating to Portugal
for 2008 and subsequent years are
replaced with the following figures:

‘2008

2009

608 221

608 751

2010 and subsequent years 608 447’.

Article 2

The figures relating to the Azores and Madeira for the 2009
budgetary year and subsequent years contained in the table in
Article 23(2) of Regulation (EC) No 247/2006 are replaced as
follows:

‘2009

87,08

2010 and further 87,18’.

The

budgetary

to in
2.
Article 70(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 are listed in
Annex II to this Regulation.

for 2008 referred

ceilings

The budgetary ceilings for 2008 for the Single Payment
3.
Scheme referred to in Title III of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003
are listed in Annex III to this Regulation.

The annual financial envelopes for 2008 referred to in
4.
Article 143b(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 are set out
in Annex IV to this Regulation.

The maximum amounts of funding available to the Czech
5.
Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania and
Slovakia for granting the separate sugar payment in 2008, as
referred to in Article 143ba(4) of Regulation (EC) No
1782/2003, are listed in Annex V to this Regulation.

6.
The maximum amounts of funding available to the Czech
Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia for granting the
separate fruit and vegetable payment in 2008, as referred to
in Article 143bb(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, are
listed in Annex VI to this Regulation.

The

budgetary

to in
7.
Article
of
Article 143bc(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 are listed
in Annex VII to this Regulation.

for 2008 referred

ceilings
the

subparagraph

143bc(1)

second

and

Article 3

Article 4

1.
The budgetary ceilings for 2008 referred to in Articles 66
to 69 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 are listed in Annex I to
this Regulation.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh 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, 16 July 2008.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

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ANNEX III

BUDGETARY CEILINGS FOR THE SINGLE PAYMENT SCHEME

2008 calendar year

Member State

(EUR thousand)

Belgium

Denmark

Germany

Ireland

Greece

Spain

France

Italy

Luxembourg

Malta

Netherlands

Austria

Portugal

Slovenia

Finland

Sweden

502 200

993 338

5 741 963

1 340 752

2 234 039

3 600 357

6 159 613

3 827 342

37 051

3 017

743 163

649 473

434 232

62 902

523 362

719 414

United Kingdom

3 947 375

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ANNEX IV

ANNUAL FINANCIAL ENVELOPES FOR THE SINGLE AREA PAYMENT SCHEME

2008 calendar year

Member State

(EUR thousand)

Bulgaria

Czech Republic

Estonia

Cyprus

Latvia

Lithuania

Hungary

Poland

Romania

Slovakia

248 821

437 762

50 629

24 597

69 769

184 702

641 446

1 432 192

529 556

188 923

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ANNEX V

MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF FUNDING AVAILABLE TO MEMBER STATES FOR GRANTING THE SEPARATE
SUGAR PAYMENTS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 143ba OF REGULATION (EC) NO 1782/2003

2008 calendar year

Member State

(EUR thousand)

Czech Republic

Latvia

Lithuania

Hungary

Poland

Romania

Slovakia

34 730

6 110

9 476

37 865

146 677

2 781

17 712

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ANNEX VI

MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF FUNDING AVAILABLE TO MEMBER STATES FOR GRANTING THE SEPARATE
FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PAYMENTS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 143bb OF REGULATION (EC) No
1782/2003

2008 calendar year

Member State

(EUR thousand)

Czech Republic

Hungary

Poland

Slovakia

414

4 756

6 715

516

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ANNEX VII

BUDGETARY CEILINGS FOR TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS IN THE FRUIT AND VEGETABLE SECTOR
REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 143bc OF REGULATION (EC) No 1782/2003

2008 calendar year

Member State

Cyprus

Tomatoes — Article 143bc(1)

Fruit and vegetables other than tomatoes —
Article 143bc(2).

4 478

Romania

869

(1 000 EUR)

Slovakia

509