2008/788/EC: Commission Decision of 3 October 2008 fixing the net amounts resulting from the application of voluntary modulation in Portugal for the calendar years 2009 to 2012 (notified under document number C(2008) 5533)
Date: 2008-10-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Portugal, aid system, aid to agriculture, common agricultural policy, rural development

L 271/44

EN

Official Journal of the European Union

11.10.2008

COMMISSION DECISION

of 3 October 2008

fixing the net amounts resulting from the application of voluntary modulation in Portugal for the
calendar years 2009 to 2012

(notified under document number C(2008) 5533)

(Only the Portuguese text is authentic)

(2008/788/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 378/2007 of
27 March 2007 laying down rules for voluntary modulation
in Regulation (EC) No
of direct payments provided for
1782/2003 establishing common rules
support
schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing
certain support schemes for farmers, and amending Regulation
(EC) No 1290/2005 (1), and in particular Article 4(1) thereof,

for direct

Whereas:

Article 1(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 378/2007 provides
that Member States which by virtue of Article 70(4a) of
Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 of 20 September
2005 on support for rural development by the European
(EAFRD) (2)
Agricultural Fund for Rural Development
have been granted a derogation from the requirement
to co-finance Community support may apply, during
the period 2007 to 2012, a reduction, hereinafter
referred to as
the
amounts of direct payments within the meaning of
(EC) No
Article
1782/2003 (3) establishing common rules
for direct
support schemes under the common agricultural policy
and establishing certain support schemes for farmers.

‘voluntary modulation’,

Regulation

Council

to all

2(d)

of

(4)

(5)

(6)

(7)

Portugal has communicated to the Commission that a
single national voluntary modulation rate of 10 % is to
apply for the calendar years 2009 to 2012.

Portugal has also submitted an assessment of the impact
of the application of such modulation.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 333/2008 (4) lays down
the ceilings applicable to the additional amounts of aid to
be made to Portugal as part of the voluntary modulation
provided for in Regulation (EC) No 378/2007.

resulting from the application of
The net amounts
voluntary modulation in Portugal should therefore be
fixed,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The net amounts resulting from the application of voluntary
modulation in Portugal for the calendar years 2009 to 2012
shall be as follows:

Year

EUR million

2009

41,6

2010

40,8

2011

40,8

2012

40,8

Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 378/2007 provides that,
within two months of the entry into force of that Regu­
lation, Member States are to decide on and communicate
to the Commission the annual rate of voluntary modu­
lation that will apply for the period 2007 to 2012 with
an assessment of the impact of the application of such
modulation.

The net amounts
resulting from the application of
voluntary modulation should be fixed on the basis of a
calculation in the case of a single national
rate of
voluntary modulation or, in the case of Member States
applying regionally differentiated rates,
the amounts
communicated by the Member States as provided for in
Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 378/2007.

Article 2

This Decision shall apply as from budget year 2010.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Portuguese Republic.

Done at Brussels, 3 October 2008.

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(1)

(2)

(3)

(1) OJ L 95, 5.4.2007, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 277, 21.10.2005, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 1.

(4) OJ L 102, 12.4.2008, p. 19.