CELEX: 31978D0237
Language: en
Date: 1977-12-20 00:00:00
Title: Commission Decision of 20 December 1977 on aid from the Guidance Section of the EAGGF towards the expenditure of the French Republic on refunds on exports to non-member countries and intervention on the internal market in respect of the 1969 second half-year accounting period

13 . 3 . 78                              Official Journal of the European Communities                             No L 70/23
                                                     COMMISSION DECISION
                                                        of 20 December 1977
               on aid from the Guidance Section of the EAGGF towards the expenditure of the French
              Republic on refunds on exports to non-member countries and intervention on the internal
                               market in respect of the 1969 second half-year accounting period
                                                   (Only the French text is authentic)
                                                            ( 78 /237/EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                           the common agricultural policy (4); whereas the inspec­
                                                                       tions carried out show that a part of the expenditure
                                                                       declared amounting to FF 15 972 363-16 (2 875 732-22
 Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                 units of account) does not satisfy the above require­
 Economic Community,                                                   ments as to eligibility and therefore cannot be reim­
                                                                       bursed for this period; whereas the Member State has
                                                                       been fully informed of these deductions and has been
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 17/64/EEC of                   able to give its views thereon;
 5 February 1964 on the conditions for granting aid
 from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guaran­
 tee Fund (*), as last amended by Regulation (EEC)
 No 3171 /75 (2), and in particular Article 10 (5 ) (b)                Whereas the Commission, in its Decisions of 31 July
 thereof,                                                               1970 (5), 29 December 1970 (6), fixed at 361 346 146
                                                                       units of account the total of the advances to be set
                                                                        against aid from the Fund towards the expenditure of
                                                                       the French Republic reimbursable by the Guarantee
 Having regard to the application for reimbursement                    Section in respect of the 1969 second half-year account­
 from the French Republic,                                             ing period; whereas this should be taken into account
                                                                       when establishing the amount to be reimbursed by way
                                                                       of such aid,
After consultation with the Committee of the EAGGF,
Whereas Article 10 (5 ) (b) of Regulation No 17/64/EEC
provides that the Commission is to decide before 31                    HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
December 1974 on aid from the Fund on the basis of
the applications for reimbursement of expenditure on
 refunds on exports to non-member countries and inter­                                             Article 1
vention on the internal market submitted by the
Member States in respect of the 1969 second half-year
accounting period; whereas, however, as a result of the                1 . Aid from the European Agricultural Guidance and
considerable delays in submitting and verifying these                  Guarantee Fund, Guarantee Section, towards the eli­
applications it has not been possible to take a decision               gible expenditure of the French Republic on refunds on
on this aid before December 1977 ;                                     exports to non-member countries and intervention on
                                                                       the internal market in respect of the 1969 second half-
                                                                       year accounting period is fixed at a total of FF
Whereas Article 7 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation No                       2 644 920 434-13 (476 202 728-78 units of account).
130/66/EEC of 26 July 1966 on the financing of the
common agricultural policy (3) provides that the con­
tribution from the Fund is to cover all the expenditure
eligible under Article 3 ( 1 ) ( a), (b) and (c) of Council            2 . The sum to be reimbursed by the Fund as aid, after
Regulation No 25 of 4 April 1962 on the financing of                   deduction of the advances, totalling 361 346 146 units
 (!) OJ No 34, 27. 2. 1964, p. 586/64.                                  (4) OJ No 30, 20. 4 . 1962, p. 991 /62 .
 (2) OJ No L 315 , 5 . 12 . 1975 , p. 1 .                               (5) OJ No L 195 , 2. 9. 1970.
 (3) OJ No 165 , 21 . 9. 1966, p. 2965 /66 .                            (6) OJ No L 14, 18 . 1 . 1971 .
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of account, approved on 31 July 1970 and 29 December           Done at Brussels, 20 December 1977.
1970 is fixed at 114 856 582-78 units of account.
                                                                                           For the Commission
                       Article 2
                                                                                             Finn GUNDELACH
This Decision is addressed to the French Republic.                                             Vice-President