CELEX: 51993PC0213
Language: en
Date: 1993-05-17
Title: Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EEC, EURATOM) amending Council Regulation No 1552/89 implementing Decision 88/376/EEC, Euratom on the system of the Communities' own resources

COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES
                                                                 COM(93) 213 final
                                                                 Brussels, 17 May 1993
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                                                  Proposal for a
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                          Proposal for a Regulation
                   amending Council Regulation No 1552/89
                  implementing Decision 88/376/EEC, Euratom
                            EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM
Article 10 of Council Regulation (EEC) No 1765/92 of 30 June 1992
establishing a support system for producers of certain arable crops reads:
"The compensatory payments for cereals and protein crops, as well as the
compensation for the set-aside obligation, shall be paid between 16 October
and 31 December next following the harvest".
Pursuant to this article and to Articles 4 and 5 of council Regulation (EEC)
No 729/70 of 21 April 1970, the Member States' authorities must pay this aid
in November and December and the Commission must therefore reimburse the
Member states in January and February of the following year.
With effect from 1994 these new measures will substantially alter the
current profile of EAGGF Guarantee Section expenditure as, when fully
applied, they will mean that 40% to 50% of the annual payments made under
this head by the Commission will be concentrated in the first two months of
the year. This will be well in excess of the Commission's cash resources at
that time of the year.
Article 10(2) of council Regulation (EEC, Euratom) No 1552/89 of 29 May 1989
authorizes the commission to invite M    or States, if necessary, to bring
forward by one month the entry in the ccounts of own resources other than
VAT resources and the additional reso ,e. However, the amount yielded by
this early entry, around ECU 1 250 million at present, would still not cover
requirements.
The Commission must therefore be empowered to call on Member States, for the
specific needs of the EAGGF Guarantee Section, to bring forward the entry of
one or two twelfths of VAT and GNP-based own resources.
The proposed amendment is to Article 10 of Regulation No 1552/89 with the
appropriate provision being contained in a new subparagraph inserted after
the first subparagraph of paragraph 3.
 ---pagebreak---                             Proposal for a Regulation
                     amending Council Regulation No 1552/89
                    implementing Decision 88/376/EEC,Euratom
                on the system of the Communities' own resources
THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,
and in particular Article 209 thereof,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Atomic Energy
Community, and in particular Article 183 thereof,
Having regard to Council Decision 88/376/EEC, Euratom of 24 June 1988 on the
system of the Communities' own resources,1 and in particular Article 8(2)
thereof,
Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,^
Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,3
Having regard to the opinion of the Court of Auditors,4
Whereas the payment of aid resulting from application of Regulation
No 1765/92 is mainly concentrated in the opening months of the year;
whereas the Commission must have sufficient cash resources to make this
payment;
Whereas additional rules need to be laid down governing the arrangements
whereby Member states make available to the Commission the own resources due
to the Communities,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
                                    Article 1
Council Regulation (EEC, Euratom) No 1552/89 of 29 May 1989 implementing
Decision 88/376/EEC, Euratom on the system of the Community's own resources
is amended as follows:
Article 10
The following subparagraph is inserted after the first subparagraph of
paragraph 3 :
"For the specific needs of paying EAGGF Guarantee Section expenditure,
Member States may be invited by the Commission to bring forward
1  OJ L 185, 15.7.1988, p.24.
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3  OJ C
4  OJ C
 ---pagebreak--- by one or two months the entry of one-twelfth of the amounts in the budget
for VAT resources and the additional resource, but excluding own resources
to cover the EAGGF (European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund)
monetary reserve, [the reserve for loan guarantees and the reserve for
emergency aid]. The sixth subparagraph concerning the amount to be entered
in January each year and the seventh subparagraph applicable if the budget
has not been finally adopted before the beginning of the financial year
shall apply to these advance entries."
                                  Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication
in the Official Journal of the European Communities.
[It shall apply from 1 November 1993.]
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in
all Member States.
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