CELEX: 51990PC0309
Language: en
Date: 1990-07-09
Title: PROPOSAL FOR A COUNCIL REGULATION ( EEC ) ON STEPPING UP CHECKS ON EXPENDITURE IN PORTUGAL AND CHARGED TO THE GUARANTEE SECTION OF THE EUROPEAN AGRICULTURAL GUIDANCE AND GUARANTEE FUND

21. 8. 90                             Official Journal of the European Communities                             No C 208/7
                                                             II
                                                     (Preparatory Acts)
                                                COMMISSION
              Proposal for a Council Regulation (EEC) on stepping up checks on expenditure in Portugal and
              charged to the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund
                                                    COM(90) 309 final
                                      (Submitted by the Commission on 13 July 1990)
                                                       (90/C 208/11)
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                         that Regulation and in addition to ensure the coordi-
                                                                 nation and processing of data concerning all expen-
                                                                 diture, including those payments which are actually
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European            effected by other authorities designated for the purpose;
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43
thereof,
                                                                 Whereas the INGA does not have data-processing infra-
                                                                 structures optimally to ensure the collection, processing,
                                                                 checking and transmission of all data on expenditure
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,
                                                                 financed by the EAGGF Guarantee Section; whereas
                                                                 such a shortcoming is likely to hamper sound
                                                                 management, checks and the prevention of irregularities
Having regard       to   the  opinion   of  the   European       and fraud;
Parliament,
                                                                 Whereas the INGA has drawn up a project to make
Whereas, pursuant to Article 8 of Council Regulation             good that shortcoming and in view of the costs has
(EEC) No 729/70 of 21 April 1970 on the financing of             requested that the Community contribute financially
the common agricultural policy (1), as last amended by           towards its implementation,
Regulation (EEC) No 2048/88 (2), the Member States
are to take the measures necessary to satisfy themselves
that transactions financed by the European Agricultural
Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) are actually                 HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
carried out and are executed correctly, to prevent and
deal with irregularities and to recover sums lost as a
result of irregularities or negligence;
                                                                                           Article 1
                                                                 1.     A Community contribution shall be granted to
                                                                 Portugal to enable it to set up a data-processing system
Whereas on 1 January 1991 financing by the EAGGF                 in the Instituto Nacional de Intervencao e Garantia
Guarantee Section will extend in Portugal to products            Agricola and links with other paying and monitoring
subject to transition by stages and the tasks incumbent          agencies.
on the departments responsible for controls and auth-
orized to pay expenditure in that Member State will be
considerably greater as a result;
                                                                 2.     The data-processing system referred to in
                                                                 paragraph 1 must permit the collection, processing,
                                                                 monitoring and transmission to the Commission of data
Whereas the Instituto Nacional de Intervencao e                  on expenditure financed by the EAGGF Guarantee
Garantia Agricola (INGA) has been designated by the              Section in Portugal.
Portugese Government in accordance with Article 4 of
Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 to effect payment of most
of the expenditure referred to in Articles 2 and 3 of            It must relate in particular to the sound management and
                                                                 the effectiveness of checks and the prevention of irregu-
(') OJ No L 94, 28. 4. 1970, p. 13.                              larities and fraud which may be committed to the
O OJ No L 185, 15. 7. 1988, p. 1.                                detriment of that Fund.
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3.    The Community financial contribution may not                                       Article 3
exceed 70 % of the expenditure actually incurred in the
establishment and commissioning of the data-processing         Detailed rules for implementing this Regulation shall be
system referred to in paragraph 1 and must not exceed          adopted as the need arises in accordance with the
ECU 4 million in total.                                        procedure laid down in Article 13 of Regulation (EEC)
                                                               No 729/70.
                         Article 2
 1.   The Community financial contribution may be the                                    Article 4
subject of advance instalments.
                                                               This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its
2.    For the purposes of applying Article 1 (3), the ECU      publication in the Official Journal of the European
4 million shall be converted into Portuguese escudos by        Communities.
applying the exchange rate in force on the second-to-last
working day of the month preceding that during which
the balance is paid, and published in the Official Journal     This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and
of the European Communities, C C series.                       directly applicable in all Member States.