CELEX: 31978D0229
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 Federal Republic of Germany 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 70/7
                                                          COMMISSION DECISION
                                                            of 20 December 19 77
                  on aid from the Guidance Section of the EAGGF towards the expenditure of the Federal
                  Republic of Germany 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 German text is authentic)
                                                                 (78 /229/EEC)
 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,                               units of account) does not satisfy the above require­
                                                                           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 the Treaty establishing the European                     able to give its views thereon; whereas, however, appeal
 Economic Community,                                                       proceedings in respect of the refusal, for identical
                                                                           reasons, of a part of the expenditure declared for the
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 17/64/EEC of                       1971 financial year are still pending before the Court of
 5 February 1964 on the conditions for granting aid                        Justice; whereas, in consequence, the abovementioned
 from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guaran­                       amount will be corrected, if necessary, after the judg­
 tee Fund ( x), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                     ment of the Court;
 3171 /75 (2), and in particular Article 10 (5 ) (b) thereof,
                                                                          Whereas the Commission, in its Decisions of 31 July
 Having regard to the application for reimbursement                        1970    (*} and 29 December 1970           (6), fixed at
 from the Federal Republic of Germany,                                    306 896 356 units of account the total of the advances
                                                                          to be set against aid from the Fund towards the expen­
                                                                          diture of the Federal Republic of Germany reimbursable
 After consultation with the Committee of the EAGGF,                      by the Guarantee Section in respect of the 1969 second
                                                                          half-year accounting period; whereas this should be
Whereas Article 10 (5 ) (b) of Regulation No                              taken into account when establishing the amount to be
 17/64/EEC provides that the Commission is to decide                      reimbursed by way of such aid,
 before 31 December 1974 on aid from the Fund on the
basis of the applications for reimbursement of expendi­
ture on refunds on exports to non-member countries
and intervention on the internal market submitted by
the Member States in respect of the 1969 second half-                      HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
year accounting period; whereas, however, as a result of
the considerable delays in submitting and verifying these
applications it has not been possible to take a decision                                             Article 1
on this aid before December 1977;
                                                                           1 . Aid from the European Agricultural Guidance and
Whereas Article 7 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation No                           Guarantee Fund, Guarantee Section, towards the eligi­
130/66/EEC of 26 July 1966 on the financing of the                         ble expenditure of the Federal Republic of Germany on
common agricultural policy (3) provides that the con­                      refunds on exports to non-member countries and inter­
tribution from the Fund is to cover all the expenditure                    vention on the internal market in respect of the 1969
eligible under Article 3 ( 1 ) ( a), (b) and (c) of Council                second half-year accounting period is fixed at a total of
Regulation No 25 of 4 April 1962 on the financing of                       DM 1 673 399 640-86 (457 213 016-63 units of ac­
the common agricultural policy (4); whereas the inspec­                    count).
tions carried out show that a part of the expenditure
declared amounting to DM 6 031 907-63 (1 648 062 19
                                                                          2 . The sum to be reimbursed by the Fund as aid, after
                                                                          deduction of the advances, totalling 306 896 356 units
(*)  OJ   No  34, 27. 2 . 1964, p. 586/64 .
(2)  OJ   No  L 315, 5 . 12 . 1975 , p. 1 .
(3)  OJ   No  165 , 21 . 9 . 1966, p. 2965 /66.                           (5) OJ No L 195 , 2 . 9. 1970.
(4)  OJ   No  30, 20. 4 . 1962, p. 991 /62 .                              (6) OJ No L 14, 18 . 1 . 1971 .
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No L 70/8                          Official Journal of the European Communities
of account, approved on 31 July 1970 and 24 December         Done at Brussels, 20 December 1977.
1970 is fixed at 150 316 660-63 units of account.
                                                                                          For the Commission
                       Article 2
                                                                                            Finn GUNDELACH
This Decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of
                                                                                              Vice-President
Germany.