CELEX: 51981DC0100
Language: en
Date: 1981-03-02
Title: TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 25/80 (compulsory expenditure)

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GENERAL
 GENERAL BUDGET FOR 1980                            COM(81 ) 100 final
SECTION
 SECTION III - COMMISSION
                                                    Brussels . 10th March 1981
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                   TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 25 / 80
                         ( compulsory expenditure )
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GENERAL BUDGET FOR 1980
SECTION III - COMMISSION
                      TRANSFER OF APPROPRIATIONS No 25/80
                          ( Compulsory expenditure )
Transfers from Chapter to Chapter
    From Chapter 62    -
                          Milk and. milk products
    Article      624   –  Other measures in the milk and milk
                          products sector
    Item         6240  –
                          Financial contribution by the
                          Guarantee Section to non-marketing
                          and conversion premiums               -
                                                                   9 750 000
    Article      629   –
                          Expenditure to promote the expansion
                          of markets for milk products
    Item         6299  –  Other measures                        – 10 000 000
    From Chapter 64    -
                          Sugar
    Article      640   –
                          Refunds on sugar and isoglucose
    Item         64OO  -
                          Refunds on sugar and isoglucose       -
                                                                   7 750 000
    Article      641   –
                          Intervention in respect of sugar
    Item         6411  –
                          Refunds for use in the chemical
                          industry                              -
                                                                     550 000
    Item         6412  –
                          Reimbursement of storage costs        –
                                                                   9 400 000
    Item         6413  –
                          Public storage                        -  2 000 000
    From Chapter 65    -  Beef and veal
    Article      651   –
                          Intervention storage
    Item         6510  -
                          Private storage                       -
                                                                     400 000
    Item         6512  -
                          Technical costs relating to public
                          storage                               -
                                                                   4 000 000
    Article      652   –  Other intervention
    Item         6522  –
                          Calving premiums                      -
                                                                   2 650 000
    From Chapter 67    -
                          Eggs and poultrymeat
    Article      670   -
                          Refunds on eggs                       -
                                                                   4 450 000
    Article      671   -
                          Refunds on poultrymeat                -
                                                                   4 000 000
    From Chapter 68    -
                          Fruit and vegetables
    Article      680   _  Refunds
    Item         6800  –
                          Refunds on fresh fruit and vegetables –
                                                                   5 650 000
    Item         6801  -
                          Refunds on products processed from
                          fruit and vegetables                  –
                                                                   5 800 000
    From Chapter 69    -  Wine
    Article      690   –  Refunds                               –
                                                                   3 350 000
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7, Prom Chapter 74  - Refunds on certain goods obtained by-
                      processing agricultural products
   Article      740 - Refunds on certain goods obtained by
                      processing agricultural products       - 8 700 000
8, Prom Chapter 75  - Accession compensatory amounts
                      granted in respect of intra-Commyjnity
                      trade                                       950 000
                                                             - 79 400 000
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    Article    600 - Refunds on cereals                                        • I
    Item       6000 - Refunds                                        + 29 550 PQO
    Article    602 - Intervention in the form of storage                           •|
    Item       6022 –  Technical costs relating to public                  .
                       storage                                       +7 400 boo
2 . To Chapter 63 : - Oils and fats                                             !' |
    Article    633 - Intervention in respect of colza, rape                        (|
                       and sunflower seeds                                      i ;|
    Item       6331 - Storage                                        + 1 000 boo
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3.  To Chapter 66   - Pigmeat                                                . ■. $
    Article    660 - Refunds                                         + 5 600 jj)0Q
    Article    66 1 -  Intervention                                  +  3 100 000
                                                                                     .»,·
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4.  To Chapter 10   -  Tobacco                                                         i
    Article    701  -  Intervention
    Item       7010 -  Premiums                                      + 17 90Q 000
5.  To Chapter 73   -  Other sectors or products subject to
                       common organization of the market
    Article    734  -  Dehydrated fodder                             +2 500 000
    Article    737  -  Broad beans , field beans and other
                       protein plants                                +   1 050 000
6.  To Chapter 78   - Monetary compensatory amounts
    Article    781  - MCAs in respect of trade with non-
                       Community countries                                 .
    Item       7811 ~ MCAs on exports                                +8 000 000
7.  To Chapter 83   -  Structural measures relating to the
                       common organizations of the market
    Article    831  -  Milk and meat
    Item       8312 - Premiums for the non-marketing of milk
                       and milk products ( appropriations
                       for commitment and payment )                  + 2 300 000
8.  To Chapter 88   -  Common organization of the market in
                       fishery products
    Article    881  -  Intervention
    Item       8810 - Withdrawal and buying-in                       +1 000 000
                                                                     + 79 400 000
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The Financial Controller approved the proposal in accordance with Article 21 (a')
of the Financial Regulation on 27 February 1?81     , attesting that               |5 |
appropriations were available .                                                    i |
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                                GROUNDS
I.    On 25 November 1980 , the Council proposed an initial batch of transfers
between Chapters within Titles 6 and 7 of the 1980 budget totalling
317 million ECU ( C0M(80)805 final );   the Council approved them on 17 December.
These transfers were based on information supplied by the Member States
regarding expenditure up to 31 August and forecasts as to expenditure up
to 30 November , together with additional information available to the
Commission regarding probable expenditure up to 31 December .
These transfers therefore constituted provisional corrections to budgetary
appropriations which the Commission referred to the budgetary authority when
informing it of the probable outturn regarding implementation of the budget
in 1980 .
II. Commission Regulation No 380/78 on the operation of the system of
advances in respect of expenditure financed by the Guarantee Section of the
EAGGF requires the Member States to supply the Commission with monthly
expenditure statements no later than the 20th of the following month , i.e.
20 January for December expenditure .     But corrections regarding expenditure
on storage may be notified to the Commission up to 20 February.
On the basis of these notifications the Commission is now proposing a final
batch of transfers between Chapters pursuant to Article 10l(l ) of the
Financial Regulation .
The EAGGF Committee has been consulted and has no objections to the transfers .
The Commission will supply the Committee with a detailed report on the rate
of utilization of appropriations in 1980 and all budget lines as soon as it
is available .    The same report will be laid before the budgetary authority.
III . The proposed transfers relate to a relatively small total amount of
79 400 000 ECU ; the largest individual transfers are 10 million ECU for
surplus items . and 29 .6 million ECU for deficit items .  The transfers are
proposed in order to permit commitment and charging as payments in accordance
with Article 97 of the Financial Regulation .     They constitute the second
and last adjustment to 1980 appropriations in the light of expenditure
declared by spending departments in the Member States .
Having regard to the transfers approved by the Council on 17 December , the
following comments must be made ,
1.   Additional transfers
These transfers are to be made in addition to those approved by the Council
on 17 December ; they constitute subsequent upward or downward adjustments
to the estimates made in November .
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1.1   For additional upward transfers , particular attention is drawn to
thase relating to cereals , pigmeat , tobacco and MCAs .
The exceptionally heavy cereal harvest in 1980 has provoked an increase in
expenditure on refunds ( 29.6 million ECU ) and on storage ( 7*4 million ECU ).
Firm world prices and strict management of the market have made it possible
to keep the shortfall in appropriations to a minimum .
For pigmeat ( 8,7 million ECU ), the depressed state of the market has meant
increased use of private storage measures and an export drive .
For tobacco ( l7»9 million ECU ), it has been found that the budget underforecast
production by 9     which has entailed extra expenditure on premiums to buyers
acquiring Community products .
An additional 8 million EUA will be required for MCAs paid on exports to
non-member countries ;   exports of cereals and beef and veal , in particular ,
have expanded .
1.2 As regards additional downward transfers , these largely concern sugar
and refunds on non-Annex II products .
For sugar , refunds concerning the first few months of 1980 , when they were
still being paid , must be revised downward by 7*8 million ECU .    Since last
May , world prices have been above Community prices , and export levies have
been charged , providing extra own resources .
Reimbursements of storage costs are also down by 9«4 million ECU ;     expanding
exports have reduced the volumes to be stored .
The extra saving of 8.7 million ECU on refunds on products not listed in
Annex II is the result of reduced rates of refund on products incorporated
in others ( sugar , milk products and cereals ).
2.   Transfers the other way from those approved in December
Certain transfers between Chapters constitute correction to those made in
December .
Apart from negligible corrections regarding oils and fats (+ 1 million ECU ),
dehydrated fodder (+ 2.5 million ECU ) and broad beans , field beans and
other protein plants (+ 1 million ECU ), there is a reduction of 7 million ECU
for beef and veal and 11.5 million ECU for fruit and vegetables .
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For beef and veal , the reduction is largely due to measures taken by the
Commission in November suspending certain forms of intervention .    The
effects appear to have been felt from December onwards , since a reduction
of 4 million ECU must be made at the public storage item .    There have
also been delays in payment of calving premiums (- 2,7 million ECU ),
Exports of fresh and processed fruit and vegetables have been below
forecasts , as the statistics became available later than expected .
3,  New transfers
New transfers must be proposed for milk , eggs and poultrymeat , accession
compensatory amounts and fisheries ; the amounts for the last two are
negligible (l million ECU ).
The reduction in expenditure on milk ( 19*8 million ECU ) is partly due to
delays in payment of premiums for non-marketing and conversion (9«8 million ECU )
and partly due to delays in implementing other measures to develop and
promote milk products .
The reduction of 8.5 million ECU for eggs and poultrymeat is due to the
below-forecast level of exports .
Particular attention is drawn to Chapter 83 , item 8312 ( premiums for the
non-marketing of milk and milk products : + 2.3 million ECU ).    These
premiums are governed by Regulation (EEC ) No 1078/77 , Article 8 of which
reads : "... 60% of the expenditure ... shall be financed by the Guarantee
Section of the EAGGF.    In addition , the Guidance Section of the EAGGP
shall refund to the Member States 4&J> of the eligible expenditure ...".
Article 10 goes on to provide : " for that part of the expenses financed by
the EAGGP Guidance Section , the detailed rules for the financial application
of the common measures shall , by way of exception , be those laid down by
Regulations (EEC ) No 2697/70* and (EEC ) No 1723/72 ".  Both these Regulations
concern the Guarantee Section :   the first governs advances and the second
governs clearance of accounts .
All the provisions governing the additional Guarantee Section period -
including those regarding transfers - accordingly apply. .
 Repealed and replaced by Regulation ( EEC)38O/78.