Commission Regulation (EU) No 726/2010 of 12 August 2010 amending Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 on detailed rules to implement Council Regulation (EC) No 797/2004 on measures improving general conditions for the production and marketing of apiculture products
Date: 2010-08-12
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: EU law - national law, apiculture, marketing, production improvement








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13.8.2010   


EN


Official Journal of the European Union


L 213/29








            COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 726/2010
of 12 August 2010
         
amending Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 on detailed rules to implement Council Regulation (EC) No 797/2004 on measures improving general conditions for the production and marketing of apiculture products


THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,


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 110 in conjunction with Article 4 thereof,

Whereas:







(1)


Commission Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 (2) lays down provisions for the implementation of the national apiculture programmes provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007. The Community’s financial contribution to those programmes is based on the bee census in each Member State as set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 917/2004.












(2)


In the Member States’ communications updating the structural data on the situation in the sector as provided for in Article 1(a) of Regulation (EC) No 917/2004, there have been changes in the number of hives.












(3)


Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 should therefore be amended accordingly.












(4)


Given that Article 2(3) of Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 fixes 31 August as the final date for implementation of measures under the apiculture programmes for the year to which those measures relate, this Regulation should apply from the 2010/2011 marketing year.












(5)


The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for the Common Organisation for Agricultural Markets,





HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:



Article 1
Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.


Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply for the first time to programmes covering the 2010/2011 marketing year.




This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 12 August 2010.


For the Commission


The President

José Manuel BARROSO
            





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

(2)  
            OJ L 163, 30.4.2004, p. 83.




ANNEX




                     ‘ANNEX I






Member State


Bee census
Number of hives




BE


112 000 




BG


617 420 




CZ


497 946 




DK


170 000 




DE


711 913 




EE


24 800 




EL


1 502 239 




ES


2 459 373 




FR


1 338 650 




IE


24 000 




IT


1 127 836 




CY


43 975 




LV


64 133 




LT


117 977 




LU


8 171 




HU


900 000 




MT


2 722 




NL


80 000 




AT


367 583 




PL


1 123 356 




PT


562 557 




RO


1 280 000 




SI


142 751 




SK


235 689 




FI


46 000 




SE


150 000 




UK


274 000 





EU 27



13 985 091 ’