Commission Regulation (EC) No 1111/2009 of 19 November 2009 adopting the plan allocating to the Member States resources to be charged to the 2010 budget year for the supply of food from intervention stocks for the benefit of the most deprived persons in the Community and derogating from certain provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92
Date: 2009-11-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU Member State, EU aid, aid to disadvantaged groups, food aid, foodstuff, intervention stock




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20.11.2009   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


L 306/5








            COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1111/2009
of 19 November 2009
         
adopting the plan allocating to the Member States resources to be charged to the 2010 budget year for the supply of food from intervention stocks for the benefit of the most deprived persons in the Community and derogating from certain provisions of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92


THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,


Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation) (1), and in particular Article 43(f) and (g), in conjunction with Article 4 thereof,


Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2799/98 of 15 December 1998 establishing agrimonetary arrangements for the euro (2), and in particular Article 3(2) thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


In accordance with Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 of 29 October 1992 laying down detailed rules for the supply of food from intervention stocks for the benefit of the most deprived persons in the Community (3), the Commission should adopt a distribution plan to be financed from resources available in the 2010 budget year. That plan should lay down, in particular, for each of the Member States applying the measure, the maximum financial resources available to carry out its part of the plan, and the quantity of each type of product to be withdrawn from the stocks held by the intervention agencies.












(2)


The Member States involved in the distribution plan for the 2010 budget year have supplied the Commission with the information required in accordance with Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92.












(3)


For the purposes of resource allocation, account must be taken of experience and of the degree to which the Member States used the resources allocated to them in previous years.












(4)


Point 1(c) of Article 2(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 provides for the allocation of resources for the purchase on the market of products temporarily unavailable in intervention stocks. Given that the stocks of cereals currently held by the intervention agencies are not sufficient to cover the allocations corresponding to the requests for cereals and rice, resource allocations should be fixed to enable the purchase on the market of cereals or rice as required to implement the distribution plan for the 2010 budget year.












(5)


Article 7(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 provides for the transfer between Member States of products unavailable in the intervention stocks of the Member State in which such products are required to implement the annual distribution plan. Accordingly, the intra-Community transfers necessary to implement that plan for 2010 should be authorised, subject to the conditions laid down in Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92.












(6)


Article 7(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 provides the option, in cases where transfer of products from the Member State in which they are held in intervention to another Member State is foreseen, for operators to submit a bid without transferring the products released from intervention stocks to the applicant Member State. Article 25 of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 provides that disposal of products bought into public intervention should take place in such a way as to avoid disturbances in the market.












(7)


Due to the current market situation in the dairy sector, which is marked by low price levels, the use of the option provided in Article 7(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 should not be allowed in the 2010 distribution plan for butter and skimmed milk powder in order to avoid possible disturbances in the market following the release of those products in certain markets that are already well supplied. For the same reason, the use of the possibilities offered to operators in paragraphs 2 and 2a of Article 4 of that Regulation should be limited so that dairy products intended for distribution to the most deprived persons in the Community comply with certain requirements concerning their composition and quantity of milk used in their manufacturing. In order to monitor the compliance with that rule, the Member States should provide in their progress reports a detailed list of distributed products placed under the categories ‘high fat content’ or ‘other’.












(8)


In order to ensure that the dairy products from the intervention stocks do not enter the market at an inappropriate moment during the year, the time period provided in the third subparagraph of Article 3(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 during which butter and skimmed milk powder may be withdrawn from the intervention stocks should be shortened.












(9)


Taking into account the complexity of the implementation of the 2010 distribution plan requiring a high volume of intra-Community transfers, it is appropriate to increase the 5 % margin provided in Article 3(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92.












(10)


To implement the annual distribution plan, the operative event within the meaning of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 2799/98 should be the date on which the financial year for administration of stocks in public storage starts.












(11)


In accordance with Article 2(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92, the Commission has consulted the major organisations familiar with the problems of the most deprived persons in the Community when drawing up the annual distribution plan.












(12)


Article 2(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 provides that the Commission adopts the annual distribution plan before 1 October of each year. Due to the current market situation in the dairy sector and taking into account the need for further consultations with the Member States on their requests, it still has not been possible for the Commission to adopt the distribution plan. Therefore, in order to ensure timely execution of the annual distribution plan this Regulation should enter into force immediately after its publication.












(13)


The Management Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural Markets has not delivered an opinion within the time limit set by its Chair,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
In 2010, the distribution of food to the most deprived persons in the Community under Article 27 of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 shall be implemented in accordance with the annual distribution plan set out in Annex I to this Regulation.


Article 2
Allocations to Member States for the purchase of cereals on the market, as required under the plan referred to in Article 1, shall be as set out in Annex II.


Article 3

1.   By way of derogation from Article 3(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92, for the 2010 distribution plan, butter and skimmed milk powder must be withdrawn from intervention storage from 1 May to 30 September 2010. The sixty days deadline for the withdrawal of the products provided in the fifth subparagraph of Article 3(2) of that Regulation shall not apply in this case.
However, the first subparagraph shall not apply to allocations of 500 tonnes or less.


2.   By way of derogation from Article 3(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92, for the 2010 distribution plan where substantiated changes concern 10 % or more of the quantities or values entered per product in the Community plan, the plan shall be revised.



Article 4

1.   By way of derogation from paragraphs 2 and 2a of Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92, when implementing the 2010 distribution plan the Member States shall place the dairy products intended for distribution either under the category ‘high fat content’ or under the category ‘other’.


2.   The Member States shall ensure that the total quantity of milk fat accounts for a minimum of 20 % of the total weight of the products falling within the first category and that the manufacturing of the total quantity of the products within the second category has required a quantity of milk of at least 90 % of their total weight.


3.   The progress report for the 2010 distribution plan, provided for in Article 10 of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92, shall contain a detailed list of distributed products placed either under the category ‘high fat content’ or under the category ‘other’.



Article 5

1.   The intra-community transfer of products listed in Annex III to this Regulation shall be authorised, subject to the conditions laid down in Article 7 of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92.


2.   By way of derogation from Article 7(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92, in case where a transfer of skimmed milk powder or butter from a Member State in which these products are present in intervention stocks to the Member State where those products will be used to implement the annual distribution plan is foreseen in this Regulation the operator shall not have the option of placing the withdrawn products on the Community market in the first Member State but will have to transfer them to the second Member State.



Article 6
For the purpose of implementing the annual distribution plan referred to in Article 1 of this Regulation, the date of the operative event within the meaning of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 2799/98 shall be 1 October 2009.


Article 7
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 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, 19 November 2009.


For the Commission

Jean-Luc DEMARTY
            

Director-General for Agriculture and Rural Development






(1)  
            OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1.

(2)  
            OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 1.

(3)  
            OJ L 313, 30.10.1992, p. 50.




ANNEX I

ANNUAL DISTRIBUTION PLAN FOR 2010









(a)


Financial resources made available to implement the 2010 plan in each Member State:






(in EUR)




Member State


Distribution




Belgique/België


7 806 433 




България


8 565 832 




Česká republika


133 893 




Eesti


761 012 




Éire/Ireland


818 816 




Elláda


20 044 478 




España


52 623 664 




France


78 103 609 




Italia


122 456 856 




Latvija


5 119 849 




Lietuva


8 859 115 




Luxembourg


107 483 




Magyarország


14 770 126 




Malta


698 841 




Polska


97 405 034 




Portugal


22 516 761 




România


29 951 704 




Slovenija


2 619 927 




Suomi/Finland


4 636 567 




Total


478 000 000 
















(b)


Quantity of each type of product to be withdrawn from Community intervention stocks for distribution in each Member State subject to the maximum amounts laid down in a):









(in tonnes)




Member State


Cereals


Butter


Skimmed milk powder


Sugar




Belgique/België


29 067 


1 285 


—


1 507 




България


54 104 


—


—


1 724 




Česká republika


302 


20 


22 


9 




Eesti


5 147 


—


1 


—




Eire/Ireland


—


350 


—


—




Elláda


64 397 


—


5 889 


—




España


181 248 


9 335 


1 603 


3 483 




France


168 998 


13 033 


12 050 


3 247 




Italia


283 206 


20 000 


18 166 


4 006 




Latvija


22 951 


—


969 


—




Lietuva


40 317 


145 


1 212 


1 182 




Magyarország


95 687 


—


—


1 938 




Malta


4 740 


—


—


—




Polska


387 305 


1 901 


17 952 


10 823 




Portugal


47 522 


5 079 


1 826 


1 045 




România


135 555 


—


4 500 


5 577 




Slovenija


9 810 


—


600 


289 




Suomi/Finland


25 371 


—


500 


—




Total


1 555 726 


51 148 


65 290 


34 832 




Allocation for Luxembourg for the purchase of milk powder on the EU market: EUR 101 880 













ANNEX II
Allocations to Member States for purchase of cereals on the Community market:






(in EUR)




Member State


Cereals




Belgique/België


1 117 572 




България


2 080 196 




Česká republika


11 600 




Eesti


197 884 




Éire/Ireland


—




Elláda


2 475 950 




España


6 968 699 




France


6 497 704 




Italia


10 888 824 




Latvija


882 424 




Lietuva


1 550 130 




Luxembourg


—




Magyarország


3 679 017 




Malta


182 233 




Polska


14 891 236 




Portugal


1 827 127 




România


5 211 876 




Slovenija


377 183 




Suomi/Finland


975 485 




Total


59 815 140 









ANNEX III

(a)   
Intra-Community transfers of cereals authorised under the plan for the 2010 budget year:








 


Quantity
(tonnes)


Holder


Recipient




1.


102 940 


SZIF, Česká republika


FEGA, España




2.


87 816 


SZIF, Česká republika


FranceAgriMer, France




3.


29 067 


BLE, Deutschland


BIRB, Belgique




4.


81 182 


BLE, Deutschland


FranceAgriMer, France




5.


31 423 


BLE, Deutschland


ARR, Polska




6.


1 022 


PRIA, Eesti


Rural Support Service, Latvia




7.


36 172 


Lietuvos žemės ūkio ir maisto produktų rinkos reguliavimo agentūra, Lietuva


ARR, Polska




8.


44 239 


Mezőgazdasági és Vidékfejlesztési Hivatal, Magyarország


Държавен фонд ‘Земеделие’ — Разплащателна агенция, България




9.


64 397 


Mezőgazdasági és Vidékfejlesztési Hivatal, Magyarország


OPEKEPE, Elláda




10.


204 593 


Mezőgazdasági és Vidékfejlesztési Hivatal, Magyarország


AGEA, Italia




11.


4 740 


Mezőgazdasági és Vidékfejlesztési Hivatal, Magyarország


Ministry for Resources and Rural Affairs Paying Agency, Malta




12.


39 351 


Mezőgazdasági és Vidékfejlesztési Hivatal, Magyarország


ARR, Polska




13.


11 640 


Mezőgazdasági és Vidékfejlesztési Hivatal, Magyarország


IFAP I.P., Portugal




14.


135 555 


Mezőgazdasági és Vidékfejlesztési Hivatal, Magyarország


Agenția de Plăți și Intervenție pentru Agricultură, România




15.


9 810 


Mezőgazdasági és Vidékfejlesztési Hivatal, Magyarország


Agencija Republike Slovenije za kmetijske trge in razvoj podeželja, Slovenija




16.


6 852 


AMA, Austria


Държавен фонд ‘Земеделие’ — Разплащателна агенция, България




17.


65 045 


Pôdohospodárska platobná agentúra, Slovenská Republika


FEGA, España




18.


78 613 


Pôdohospodárska platobná agentúra, Slovenská Republika


AGEA, Italia




19.


199 816 


Agency for Rural Affairs, Suomi/Finland


ARR, Polska




20.


13 263 


SJV, Sverige


FEGA, España




21.


21 929 


SJV, Sverige


Rural Support Service, Latvia




22.


35 882 


SJV, Sverige


IFAP I.P., Portugal






(b)   
Intra-Community transfers of sugar authorised under the plan for the 2010 budget year:








 


Quantity
(tonnes)


Holder


Recipient




1.


2 129 


SZIF, Česká republika


ARR, Polska




2.


397 


OFI, Ireland


BIRB, Belgique




3.


995 


OFI, Ireland


FranceAgriMer, France




4.


1 724 


AGEA, Italia


Държавен фонд ‘Земеделие’ — Разплащателна агенция, България




5.


3 483 


AGEA, Italia


FEGA, España




6.


2 252 


AGEA, Italia


FranceAgriMer, France




7.


1 182 


AGEA, Italia


Lietuvos žemės ūkio ir maisto produktų rinkos reguliavimo agentūra, Lietuva




8.


1 938 


AGEA, Italia


Mezőgazdasági és Vidékfejlesztési Hivatal, Magyarország




9.


8 694 


AGEA, Italia


ARR, Polska




10.


1 045 


AGEA, Italia


IFAP I.P., Portugal




11.


5 577 


AGEA, Italia


Agenția de Plăți și Intervenție pentru Agricultură, România




12.


289 


AGEA, Italia


Agencija Republike Slovenije za kmetijske trge in razvoj podeželja, Slovenija






(c)   
Intra-Community transfers of butter authorised under the plan for the 2010 budget year:








 


Quantity
(tonnes)


Holder


Recipient




1.


9 894 


BLE, Deutschland


AGEA, Italia




2.


10 106 


Dienst Regelingen Roermond, Netherlands


AGEA, Italia






(d)   
Intra-Community transfers of skimmed milk powder authorised under the plan for the 2010 budget year:








 


Quantity
(tonnes)


Holder


Recipient




1.


600 


SZIF, Česká republika


Agencija Republike Slovenije za kmetijske trge in razvoj podeželja, Slovenija




2.


5 889 


BLE, Deutschland


OPEKEPE, Elláda




3.


969 


PRIA, Eesti


Rural Support Service, Latvia




4.


18 166 


FranceAgriMer, France


AGEA, Italia




5.


4 500 


Lietuvos žemės ūkio ir maisto produktų rinkos reguliavimo agentūra, Lietuva


Agenția de Plăți și Intervenție pentru Agricultură, România