CELEX: 31974D0118
Language: en
Date: 1973-12-21 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 21 December 1973 on the reimbursement by the Guidance Section of the EAGGF for premiums paid during 1970 and 1971 for grubbing apple trees, pear trees and peach trees to the Kingdom of the Netherlands

4. 3 . 74                              Official Journal of the European Communities                                No L 62/23
                                                   COMMISSION DECISION
                                                      of 21 December 1973
               on the reimbursement by the Guidance Section of the EAGGF for premiums
               paid during 1970 and 1971 for grubbing apple trees, pear trees and peach trees to
                                               the Kingdom of the Netherlands
                                                 (Only the Dutch text is authentic)
                                                           (74/ 1 18/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN                                        reimbursement, in accordance with the provisions of
COMMUNITIES,                                                          Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1096/71 of 27 May
                                                                       1971 , on applications for the reimbursement of
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                premiums granted by the Member States for grubbing
Economic Community ;                                                  apple trees, pear trees and peach trees (4) ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No
                                                                      Whereas      the   submitted     information shows    that
2517/69 (') of 9 December 1969 laying down certain
measures for reorganizing Community fruit produc­                     premiums have been paid for a total amount of
tion, as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                          4 151 592 units of account ; this amount includes :
2456/72 (2 ) ;
                                                                      — 2 741 445 units of account concerning new grub­
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No                                bing operations done in 1971 for which the
2093/70 (3) of 20 October 1970 adopting general rules                       premium was 800 units of account per grubbed
for the application of Articles 6 and 7 ( 1 ) of Regula­                    hectare ;
tion (EEC) No 2517/69 and in particular Article 2 (2)                 — 1 084 710 units of account concerning the amount
thereof ;
                                                                            of complementary payments which were necessary
Whereas for premiums paid in 1970 the Commission                            to bring the premiums paid in 1970 per grubbed
has statuated provisionally by Decision of 22                               hectare partially up to 800 units of account ;
December 1 972 that this grant was subordinated to                    — 325 437 units of account concerning the amount
the payment of the balance of these premiums which                          of new part payments relating to grubbing opera­
should be brought up to 800 units of account per                            tions done in 1970 ;
grubbed hectare ;
Whereas for the expenditures of 1970 the balance                      Whereas the part payment of these premiums shown
                                                                      in the third indent above is justified to avoid discrimi­
necessary to bring up to 800 units of account the
premiums per grubbed hectare has been paid in 1971                    nation of the beneficiaries who even for grubbing in
(1 084 710 units of account) and 1972 ( 139 340 units                  1970 have obtained the first payment during two
of account); the payments made during 1971 and                        different years, which is to say 1970 or 1971 ; however,
 1972 are being reimbursed by the EAGGF for these                     the balance has been paid in 1971 and in 1972, in the
civil years ;                                                         same way as for the expenditures of 1970 ;
Whereas the number of grubbed hectares in 1970 to                     Whereas, with reserve to what is mentioned above, the
be considered for the payment of the premium is,                      payment of 4 151 592 units of account in 1971 has
however, less high than initially indicated, so that the              been made under the conditions laid down in Regula­
amount of the premiums paid in 1970 under the                         tion (EEC) No 2517/ 69 and its rules of application ;
conditions laid down in Regulation (EEC) No 2517/69                   whereas the Guidance Section of the European Agri­
and its rules of application is 2 233 184 units of                    cultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund should there­
account    instead  of     2 313 627      units   of account ;        fore reimburse 50 % of that account, i.e. 2 075 796
whereas the Guidance Section of the European Agri­                    units of account ;
cultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund should there­
fore reimburse on expenditure of 1970, 50 % of                        Whereas however the balance allowed for in the exer­
2 233 184 units of account i.e.           1 116 592 units of
                                                                      cise for the financial year 1972 for reimbursing the
account ;
                                                                      payments under consideration and carried over with
Whereas for the premiums paid in 1971 the Kingdom                     the Council 's authority to the 1973 exercise, as the
of the Netherlands has made an application for the                    total grant cannot be made at the present time ;
                                                                      consequently a provisional sum should be decided
(>) OJ No L 318 , 18 . 12. 1969 , p. 15 .
                                                                      upon so that the necessary amount of assistance will
(2) OJ No L 2 66, 25. 11 . 1972, p. 9 .
(3 ) OJ No L 232, 21 . 10 . 1970, p . 5.                              (4 ) OJ No L 116, 28 . 5. 1971 , p . 35.
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be available and to establish a definite sum as soon as     towards the expenditure incurred by the Kingdom of
the necessary funds can be made available ;                  the Netherlands during 1971 in respect of premiums
Whereas the Fund Committee has been consulted on
                                                             for grubbing apple trees, pear trees and peach trees is
                                                             fixed provisionally at 1 339 278 units of account.
the financial aspects and in particular on the funds
available,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :                                                         Article 3
                       Article 1
                                                            This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of the
                                                             Netherlands .
The contribution by the Guidance Section, of the Euro­
pean Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund
towards the expenditure incurred by the Kingdom of           Done at Brussels, 21 December 1973 .
the Netherlands during 1970 in respect of premiums
for grubbing apple trees, pear trees and peach trees is
fixed definitely at 1 116 592 units of account.
                                                                                       For the Commission
                       Article 2
                                                                                           The President
The contribution by the Guidance Section of the Euro­
pean Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund                                         Francois-Xavier ORTOLI