CELEX: 31978D0231
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 Kingdom of Belgium on refunds on exports to non-member countries and intervention on the internal market in respect of the 1967/68 accounting period

13 . 3 . 78                                  Official Journal of the European Communities                                 No L 70/ 11
                                                         COMMISSION DECISION
                                                            of 20 December 1977
                 on aid from the Guidance Section of the EAGGF towards the expenditure of the Kingdom of
                 Belgium on refunds on exports to non-member countries and intervention on the internal
                                            market in respect of the 1967/68 accounting period
                                                 (Only the French and Dutch texts are authentic)
                                                                 (78 /231 /EEC)
THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES ,                                tions carried out show that a part of the expenditure
                                                                            declared amounting to Bfrs 19 691 821 (393 836-42
                                                                            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
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European                       been fully informed of these deductions and has been
Economic Community,                                                         able to give its views thereon ;
 Having regard to Council Regulation No 17/64/EEC of
 5 February 1964 on the conditions for granting aid                         Whereas the Commission, in its Decisions of 25 July
 from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guaran­                        1968 (5), 26 March 1969 (6) and 23 October 1970 ( 7),
 tee Fund ( x), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No                      fixed at 82 414 386 units of account the total of the
 3171 /75 (2), and in particular Article 10 (4) (b) thereof,                advances to be set against aid from the Fund towards
                                                                            the expenditure of the Kingdom of Belgium reimburs­
                                                                            able by the Guarantee Section in respect of the 1967/68
Having regard to the application for reimbursement                          accounting period; whereas this should be taken into
from the Kingdom of Belgium,                                                account when establishing the amount to be reimbursed
                                                                            by way of such aid,
After consultation with the Committee of the EAGGF,
Whereas Article 10 (4) (b ) of Regulation No 17/64/EEC
provides that the Commission is to decide before 31
December 1974 on aid from the Fund on the basis of
                                                                            HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION :
the applications for reimbursement of expenditure on
refunds on exports to non-member countries and inter­
vention on the internal market submitted by the
Member States in respect of the 1967/68 accounting
period; whereas, however, as a result of the consider­                                                 Article 1
able delays in submitting and verifying these appli­
cations it has not been possible to take a decision on                       1 . Aid from the European Agricultural Guidance and
this aid before December 1977 ;                                             Guarantee Fund, Guarantee Section, towards the eli­
                                                                            gible expenditure of the Kingdom of Belgium on refunds
Whereas Article 7 ( 1 ) of Council Regulation No                            on exports to non-member countries and intervention
 130/66/EEC of 26 July 1966 on the financing of the                         on the internal market in respect of the 1967/68 ac­
common agricultural policy (3) provides that the con­                       counting period is fixed at a total of Bfrs 4 667 291 772
tribution from the Fund is to cover all the expenditure                      (93 345 835-44 units of account).
eligible under Article 3 ( 1 ) ( a), (b) and (c) of Council
Regulation No 25 of 4 April 1962 on the financing of
the common agricultural policy (4); whereas the inspec                      2 . The sum to be reimbursed by the Fund as aid, after
                                                                            deduction of the advances, totalling 82 414 386 units of
(*)  OJ   No 34, 27. 2 . 1964, p. 586/64 .
(2)  OJ   No L 315 , 5 . 12 . 1975 , p. 1 .                                 (5) OJ No L 204, 14 . 8 . 1968 .
(3)  OJ   No 165 , 21 . 9 . 1966 , p. 2965 /66 .                            (6) OJ No L 103 , 30 . 4. 1969 .
(4)  OJ   No 30, 20 . 4 . 1962, p. 991 /62 .                                ( 7) OJ No L 244, 7. 11 . 1970 .
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account, approved on 25 July 1968 , 26 March 1969            Done at Brussels, 20 December 1977.
and 23 October 1970 is fixed at 10 931 449-44 units of
account.
                                                                                          For the Commission
                       Article 2                                                           Finn GUNDELACH
This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium .                                       Vice-President