2009/87/EC: Commission Decision of 29 January 2009 on the clearance of the accounts of certain paying agencies in Estonia, The Netherlands and Portugal concerning expenditure financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) for the 2007 financial year (notified under document number C(2009) 414)
Date: 2009-01-29
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EAGGF Guarantee Section, Estonia, Netherlands, Portugal, agricultural expenditure, closing of accounts, rural development

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COMMISSION DECISION

of 29 January 2009

on the clearance of the accounts of certain paying agencies in Estonia, The Netherlands and Portugal
concerning expenditure financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) for the 2007
financial year

(notified under document number C(2009) 414)

(Only the Estonian, Dutch and Portuguese texts are authentic)

(2009/87/EC)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty
Community,

establishing the European

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 of
21 June 2005 on the financing of the common agricultural
policy (1), and in particular Articles 30 and 32 thereof,

paying agencies and other bodies and the clearance of the
accounts of the EAGF and of the EAFRD (3) lays down
that the amounts that are recoverable from, or payable
to, each Member State, in accordance with the accounts
clearance decision referred to in the first subparagraph of
Article 10(1) of the said Regulation, shall be determined
by deducting advances paid during the financial year in
question, i.e. 2007, from expenditure recognised for that
year in accordance with paragraph 1. Such amounts are
to be deducted from, or added to, the advances against
expenditure from the second month following that in
which the accounts clearance decision is taken.

After consulting the Committee on the Agricultural Funds,

(4)

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

the accounts of all

Commission Decision 2008/396/EC (2) cleared, for the
2007 financial year,
the paying
agencies except for the Estonian paying agency ‘PRIA’,
the Greek paying agency ‘OPEKEPE’, the Finnish paying
agency ‘MAVI’, the Italian paying agency ‘ARBEA’, the
Maltese paying agency ‘MRAE’,
the Dutch paying
agency ‘Dienst Regelingen’ and the Portuguese paying
agencies ‘IFADAP’, ‘INGA’ and ‘IFAP’.

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
accounts submitted by the Estonian paying agency ‘PRIA’,
the Dutch paying agency ‘Dienst Regelingen’ and the
Portuguese paying agency ‘INGA’.

The first subparagraph of Article 10(2) of Commission
Regulation (EC) No 885/2006 of 21 June 2006 laying
down detailed rules for the application of Council Regu­
lation (EC) No 1290/2005 as regards the accreditation of

if

the recovery of

finding, or within eight years if

to Article 32(5) of Regulation (EC) No
Pursuant
the financial consequences of
1290/2005, 50 % of
non-recovery of
irregularities shall be borne by the
Member State concerned and 50 % by the Community
budget
those irregularities has not
taken place within four years of the primary administra­
tive or judicial
the
recovery is taken to the national courts. Article 32(3)
of the said Regulation obliges Member States to submit
to the Commission, together with the annual accounts, a
summary report on the recovery procedures undertaken
in response to irregularities. Detailed rules on the appli­
cation of the Member States’ reporting obligation of the
amounts to be recovered are laid down in Regulation
(EC) No 885/2006. Annex III
to the said Regulation
provides the model
tables 1 and 2 that have to be
provided in 2008 by the Member States. On the basis
of
the
the tables completed by the Member States,
Commission should decide on the financial consequences
of non-recovery of irregularities older than four or eight
years respectively. This Decision is without prejudice to
future conformity decisions pursuant to Article 32(8) of
Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005.

(5)

to Article 32(6) of Regulation (EC) No
Pursuant
1290/2005, Member States may decide not to pursue
recovery. Such a decision may only be taken if
the
costs already and likely to be incurred total more than
the amount to be recovered or if the recovery proves
impossible owing to the
recorded and
the debtor or the
recognised under national
If that
persons legally responsible for the irregularity.

insolvency,
law, of

(1) OJ L 209, 11.8.2005, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 139, 29.5.2008, p. 33.

(3) OJ L 171, 23.6.2006, p. 90.

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decision has been taken within four years of the primary
administrative or judicial finding or within eight years if
the recovery is taken to the national courts, 100 % of the
financial consequences of the non-recovery should be
In the summary
borne by the Community budget.
report referred to in Article 32(3) of Regulation (EC)
No 1290/2005 the amounts for which the Member
State decided not to pursue recovery and the grounds
for the decision are shown. These amounts are not
charged to the Member States concerned and are conse­
quently to be borne by the Community budget. This
Decision is without prejudice to future conformity
decisions pursuant to Article 32(8) of the said Regu­
lation.

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 2008/396/EC.

the paying

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The accounts of the Estonian paying agency ‘PRIA’, the Dutch
paying agency ‘Dienst Regelingen’ and the Portuguese paying
agency
the
concerning
European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF),
in respect of
the 2007 financial year, are hereby cleared.

financed by

expenditure

‘INGA’

The amounts which are recoverable from, or payable to, each
Member State concerned pursuant to this Decision,
including
those resulting from the application of Article 32(5) of Regu­
lation (EC) No 1290/2005, are set out in the Annex.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Republic of Estonia,
Kingdom of the Netherlands and the Portuguese Republic.

the

Done at Brussels, 29 January 2009.

In accordance with Article 30(2) of Regulation (EC) No
1290/2005, this Decision does not prejudice decisions
taken subsequently by the Commission excluding from
Community
effected in
financing
accordance with Community rules,

expenditure not

For the Commission

Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission

(6)

(7)

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