CELEX: 32013R0768
Language: en
Date: 2013-08-08 00:00:00
Title: Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 768/2013 of 8 August 2013 amending Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 on detailed rules to implement Council Regulation (EC) No 797/2004 on measures improving general conditions for the production and marketing of apiculture products

9.8.2013   
            
            
               EN
            
            
               Official Journal of the European Union
            
            
               L 214/7
            
         COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 768/2013
   of 8 August 2013
   amending Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 on detailed rules to implement Council Regulation (EC) No 797/2004 on measures improving general conditions for the production and marketing of apiculture products
   THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
   Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
   Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation) (1), and in particular Article 110 in conjunction with Article 4 thereof,
   Whereas:
   
               (1)
            
            
               Commission Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 (2) lays down provisions for the implementation of the national apiculture programmes provided for in Article 105 of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007. According to Article 2(2) and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 917/2004, the apiculture programme measures laid down for every year of the three-year period shall be implemented by 31 August of the year to which they relate and payments shall be carried out during the annual exercise established from 16 October of the same year to 15 October of the following year. As a result, Member States cannot implement apiculture measures between 1 September of the year of the apiculture programme and 15 October of the same year.
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               In order to avoid the gap between the implementation and the funding of apiculture measures, the relevant dates need to be changed so that measures can be implemented all year round.
            
         
               (3)
            
            
               The Union financial contribution to national apiculture programmes is based on the bee census/number of hives in each Member State as set out in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 917/2004.
            
         
               (4)
            
            
               In accordance with Article 109 of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007, Member States submitted their national apiculture programmes and updated the numbers of hives as provided for in Article 1(a) of Regulation (EC) No 917/2004. The updated numbers of hives should be reflected in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 917/2004.
            
         
               (5)
            
            
               Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 should therefore be amended accordingly.
            
         
               (6)
            
            
               The amendments provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for the Common Organisation for Agricultural Markets,
            
         HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
   Article 1
   Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 is amended as follows:
   
               (1)
            
            
               in Article 2, paragraphs 2 and 3 are replaced by the following:
               ‘2.   Each year of the apiculture programme (“apiculture year”) shall run for 12 consecutive months from 1 September until 31 August.
               3.   The apiculture programme measures laid down for each apiculture year shall be implemented in full within the apiculture year concerned.
               Payments related to measures implemented during each apiculture year shall be made within the 12-month period starting on 16 October of that apiculture year and ending on 15 October of the following year.’;
            
         
               (2)
            
            
               Annex I is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
            
         Article 2
   This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
   It shall apply as from the 2014 apiculture year starting on 1 September 2013.
   
      This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
      Done at Brussels, 8 August 2013.
      
         
            For the Commission
         
         
            The President
         
         José Manuel BARROSO
      
   
   
      (1)  OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1.
   
      (2)  OJ L 163, 30.4.2004, p. 83.
   
      ANNEX
      
         
            ‘ANNEX I
            
                        Member State
                     
                     
                        Bee census
                        Number of hives
                     
                  
                        BE
                     
                     
                        107 800
                     
                  
                        BG
                     
                     
                        526 014
                     
                  
                        CZ
                     
                     
                        540 705
                     
                  
                        DK
                     
                     
                        150 000
                     
                  
                        DE
                     
                     
                        711 299
                     
                  
                        EE
                     
                     
                        41 400
                     
                  
                        IE
                     
                     
                        15 710
                     
                  
                        EL
                     
                     
                        1 584 206
                     
                  
                        ES
                     
                     
                        2 459 292
                     
                  
                        FR
                     
                     
                        1 636 000
                     
                  
                        HR
                     
                     
                        491 481
                     
                  
                        IT
                     
                     
                        1 316 774
                     
                  
                        CY
                     
                     
                        44 953
                     
                  
                        LV
                     
                     
                        83 801
                     
                  
                        LT
                     
                     
                        144 969
                     
                  
                        LU
                     
                     
                        7 804
                     
                  
                        HU
                     
                     
                        1 088 590
                     
                  
                        MT
                     
                     
                        3 142
                     
                  
                        NL
                     
                     
                        80 000
                     
                  
                        AT
                     
                     
                        376 485
                     
                  
                        PL
                     
                     
                        1 280 693
                     
                  
                        PT
                     
                     
                        566 793
                     
                  
                        RO
                     
                     
                        1 550 000
                     
                  
                        SI
                     
                     
                        167 000
                     
                  
                        SK
                     
                     
                        254 859
                     
                  
                        FI
                     
                     
                        50 000
                     
                  
                        SE
                     
                     
                        150 000
                     
                  
                        UK
                     
                     
                        274 000
                     
                  
                        EU 28
                     
                     
                        15 704 270’