CELEX: 31986D0306
Language: en
Date: 1986-06-11 00:00:00
Title: 86/306/EEC: Commission Decision of 11 June 1986 on the clearance of the accounts presented by the Kingdom of Belgium in respect of premium for leaf tobacco declared as expenditure chargeable to the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund, Guarantee Section, for 1980 and amending Decision 85/448/EEC

No L 194/44                                Official Journal of the European Communities                                17. 7. 86
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                          of 11 June 1986
                   on the clearance of the accounts presented by              the Kingdom of Belgium in
                   respect of premium for leaf tobacco declared as           expenditure chargeable to the
                   European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee               Fund, Guarantee Section, for
                                            1980 and amending Decision       85/448/EEC
                                          (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                            (86/306/EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                          Whereas, in the light of the inspections carried out, a part
                                                                     of the expenditure relating to the premium for leaf
                                                                     tobacco does not satisfy the conditions and must therefore
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                be disallowed ; whereas, the Member State has been fully
Economic Community,                                                  informed of the method used to calculate the correction
                                                                     and has had an opportunity to give its views thereon ;
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 of               Whereas, the Decisions on the clearance of the accounts
21 April 1970 on the financing of the common agricul­                for 1978 and 1979 excluded from financing the respective
tural policy ('), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No             amounts of Bfrs 109 567 307 and Bfrs 117 663 053 in the
3769/85 (2), and in particular Article 5 (2) thereof,                tobacco sector with the proviso that the said expenditure
                                                                     or a part thereof could be recognized in the accounts
                                                                     clearance procedure for 1980 on condition that the
After consulting the Fund Committee,
                                                                     Member State furnished the evidence required for
                                                                     Community financing ; whereas, in the light of the
Whereas, under Article 5 (2) (b) of Regulation (EEC) No              evidence furnished by the Member State, a part of the said
729/70, the Commission, on the basis of the annual                   expenditure can be financed in the context of the current
accounts presented by the Member States, clears the                  accounts clearance procedure ;
accounts of the authorities and bodies referred to in
Article 4 of that Regulation ;                                       Whereas this Decision is without prejudice to any finan­
                                                                     cial consequences which may be determined by the
                                                                     Commission in the course of a subsequent clearance of
Whereas, Belgium has transmitted to the Commission the               accounts relating to current investigations of financial
documents required to clear the accounts for 1980 ;                  losses resulting from irregularities within the meaning of
whereas the latter has carried out on-the-spot inspection            Article 8 of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70,
as provided for in Article 9 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No
729/70 ;
                                                                     HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
Whereas, according to documents sent by Belgium, the
expenditure declared in respect of premium for leaf
tobacco comes to Bfrs 168 541 883 ; whereas the latter
expenditure was excluded from Commission Decision                                             Article 1
85/448/EEC (3) on the clearance of the accounts for 1980 ;
                                                                     The expenditure by Belgium recognized as chargeable to
Whereas, Article 8 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No                  the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund,
 1723/72 of 26 July 1972 on the clearance of the accounts            Guarantee Section, in respect of premium for leaf tobacco
                                                                      for the 1980 amounts, in accordance with Annex I , to
of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee                   Bfrs 362 408 283 .
Fund, Guarantee Section (4), provides that the Decision to
clear the accounts must include the determination of the
amount of expenditure incurred in each Member State
during the financial year in question recognized as                                            Article 2
chargeable to the Fund, Guarantee Section, and also the
determination of the amount of the Community's finan­                The financial resources available at the end of 1980
cial resources still available in each Member State ;
                                                                      amount,    in   accordance    with   Annex    I,  to   Bfrs
                                                                      2 078 243 496 .
(') OJ No   L  94, 28 . 4. 1970, p. 13 .
(2) OJ No   L  362, 31 . 12. 1985, p. 17.
(3) OJ No  L   267, 9. 10. 1985, p. 1 .                               Annex I to Decision 85/448/EEC is hereby replaced by
0   OJ No  L   186, 16. 8 . 1972, p. 1 .                              the Annex to this Decision .
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                                                             Article 3
                This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium.
                 Done at Brussels, 11 June 1986.
                                                                              For the Commission
                                                                               Frans ANDRIESSEN
                                                                                  Vice-President
                                                             ANNEX
                                                            ANNEX I
          Clearance of the accounts concerning the expenditure financed by the EAGGF , Guarantee
                                                       Section , for 1980 (')
                                                                                                          (Bfrs)
           1 . Funds available after clearance of the accounts for 1979                                 866 705 556
          2. Advances received for 1980                                                              24 302 000 000
          3. Total funds available to cover expenditure for 1980                                     25 168 705 556
          4. Expenditure recognized for 1980 :
               (a) Expenditure declared                                           22 846 371 620
               (b) Supplementary expenditure recognized :                          +  34 260 704
                   — of which definitive decision referred to 1982
               (c) Elimination of reserves for the previous years                  + 209 829 736 (2)
               (d) Expenditure recognized                                                            23 090 462 060
          5. Funds available after the clearance of accounts for 1980                                 2 078 243 496
          (') Excluding expenditure on measures under Regulation (EEC) No 1078/77.
          (2) Of which Bfrs 100 517 059 for 1978 and Bfrs 109 312 677 for 1979.'