CELEX: 51973PC1533
Language: en
Date: 1973-09-17
Title: Amendment to the Proposal for a Regulation of the Council concerning interest on sums paid out of the EAGGF and by way of food aid which are recoverable (submitted to the Council by the Commission, pursuant to the second paragraph of Article 149 of the EEC Treaty)

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                                              COM(73)1533 final
                                              Brussels , 17 September 1973
     Amendment to the Proposal for a Regulation of the Council
         concerning interest on sums paid out of the EAGGF
             and by way of food aid which are recoverable
             ( submitted to the Council "by the Commission,
                  pursuant to the second paragraph of
                    Article 149 of the EEC Treaty)
      1533 final
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                        Explanatory Mémorandum
1.' By letter of 16 February 1973 » the Commission sent the Council a
    proposal for a regulation concerning interest on sums paid out of the
    EAGGP and "by way of food aid which are recoverable ( r/440/73 (AGRI 153)
    (PIN 106)).
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2# The Parliament adopted, at its May session, a resolution embodying
    its Opinion on the proposal mentioned in paragraph 1 . The Parliament
    requested that, .interest be payable under the proposal in all cases
    of bad faith on the part of the beneficiary , even where the reason for
    recovery was attributable to the Community or to the Member State
    concerned .                            .                  .•
3 * The Commission , believing that this request is in accordance with the
    aimp ,of the proposal , is therefore amending its proposal in pursuance
    of the second paragraph of article 149 or the Treaty *
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                        /ιΙΕΙ'Μ'ΙΠρΤΤ ΤΟ,.ΊΉΕ ΡΚ0Ρ05ΑΤ., ΡΟΗ Λ
concerning interest on sums paid out of the EAGGF and by way of             aid
which are recoverable .
Doc . COM ( 73 ) 206 final of 14.2.1973
R /44O/73 (AGRI 153 ) (FDI106 ) of 19.2.1973
1 . In the title to the proposal for a regulation , and in the first recital ,
    the phrase "out of EAGGP or by way of food aid " is substituted for "out
    of the EAGGP and by way of food aid ".
2 . The second recital is amended to read as follows s
    "whereas it seems fair not to apply such payment of interest at Community
    level where the reason £>r recovery is attributable to the Community or to
    the Member state concerned and where the beneficiary has acted in good faith "
3 . The first subparagraph of Article l(l ) is amended to read as follows :
    "Interest shall be payable on sums to be recovered from beneficiaries
    in respect of expenditure financed in whole or in part by the EAGGP or by
    way of food aid , from the date of payment of those sums to the beneficiary ".
4 » The following subparagraph is inserted after the first subparagraph of
    Article l(l ) s
    "However , where the reason for recovery is attributable to the Community .
    or to the Member State concerned :
    – interest shall not be payable where the beneficiary can plead good faith ;
    – the Commission shall lay down the criteria used to determine the sums
      to be taken into consideration where the beneficiary cannot plead good
      faith ."
5 . The second subparagraph of Article l(l ) becomes the third subparagraph .