Commission Decision 2007/325/EC

law://eu/dec/2007/325@2026-11-14

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THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the financing of the common agricultural policy^note, and in particular Article 7(3) thereof,After consulting the Fund Committee,Whereas:

(1)On the basis of the annual accounts submitted by the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia concerning expenditure in the field of rural development measures, accompanied by the information required, the accounts of the paying agencies referred to in Article 4(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999 are to be cleared. The clearance covers the integrality, accuracy and veracity of the accounts transmitted in the light of the reports established by the certification bodies.

(2)The time limits granted to the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia for the submission to the Commission of the documents referred to in Article 6(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) 1258/1999 and in Article 4(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1663/95 of 7 July 1995 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 regarding the procedure for the clearance of accounts of the EAGGF Guarantee Section^note, have expired.

(3)The Commission has checked the information submitted and communicated to the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia before 31 March 2007 the results of its verifications, along with the necessary amendments.

(4)For the rural development expenditure covered by Article 7(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 27/2004 of 5 January 2004 laying down transitional detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 as regards the financing by the EAGGF Guarantee Section of rural development measures in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia^note the outcome of the clearance decision is to be deducted from or added to subsequent payments made by the Commission.

(5)In the light of the verifications made, the annual accounts and the accompanying documents permit the Commission to take, for certain paying agencies, a decision on the integrality, accuracy and veracity of the accounts submitted. The details of these amounts were described in the Summary Report that was presented to the Fund Committee at the same time as this Decision.

(6)In the light of the verifications made, the information submitted by certain paying agencies requires additional inquiries and their accounts cannot be therefore cleared in this Decision.

(7)For the rural development expenditure covered by Regulation (EC) No 27/2004, the amounts recoverable or payable under the clearance of accounts decision are to be deducted from or added to subsequent payments.

(8)In accordance with the second subparagraph of Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999 and Article 7(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1663/95, this Decision, does not prejudice decisions taken subsequently by the Commission excluding from Community financing expenditure not effected in accordance with Community rules,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

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Without prejudice to Article 2, the amounts which are recoverable from, or payable to, each Member State pursuant to this Decision in the field of rural development measures applicable in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia are set out in Annex I and Annex II.

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For the 2006 financial year, the accounts of the Member States’ paying agencies in the field of rural development measures applicable in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia, set out in Annex III, are disjoined from this Decision and shall be the subject of a future clearance Decision.

Article 3 #

This Decision is addressed to the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic.

Annex I

CLEARANCE OF THE PAYING AGENCIES' ACCOUNTS
MS		Expenditure for the Paying Agencies for which the accounts are	Total a + b	Reductions	Total	Interim Payments reimbursed to the Member State for the financial year	Amount to be recovered from (–) or paid to (+) the Member State
cleared	disjoined
= expenditure declared in the annual declaration	= total of Interim Payments reimbursed to the Member State for the financial year
		a	b	c = a + b	d	e = c + d	f	g = e – f
CY	EUR	24796690,13	0,00	24796690,13	0,00	24796690,13	24797284,89	–594,76
CZ	EUR	176491761,34	0,00	176491761,34	–10444,11	176481317,23	176353014,70	128302,53
EE	EUR	42423603,39	0,00	42423603,39	–15231,72	42408371,67	42408371,67	0,00
HU	EUR	296033597,90	0,00	296033597,90	–9339,13	296024258,77	296024258,77	0,00
LT	EUR	0,00	140016475,42	140016475,42	0,00	140016475,42	140016475,42	0,00
LV	EUR	95213650,83	0,00	95213650,83	0,00	95213650,83	95213651,75	–0,92
MT	EUR	7944230,12	0,00	7944230,12	–4618,97	7939611,15	7939611,15	0,00
PL	EUR	1149569960,50	0,00	1149569960,50	–13069,51	1149556890,99	1149556398,09	492,90
SI	EUR	118941385,27	0,00	118941385,27	0,00	118941385,27	118942873,75	–1488,48
SK	EUR	0,00	117783440,91	117783440,91	0,00	117783440,91	117783440,91	0,00

Annex II

Cyprus
No	Measure	Expenditure 2006Annex I column ‘a’	Amount cleared 2006Annex I column ‘e’
1	Support of investments for management of animal waste	9443852,29	9443852,29
2	Encouragement of the improvement and the development	1239312,75	1239312,75
3	Encouragement of the set up of producer groups	0,00	0,00
4	Promotion of vocational training of farmers	0,00	0,00
5	Technical and advisory service to the farmers	0,00	0,00
6	Early retirement	486308,23	486308,23
7	Support for setting up of young farmers	1275250,49	1275250,49
8	Meeting EU standards	1360168,93	1360168,93
9	Adoption of agri-environmental measures	4130349,24	4130349,24
10	Agri-environmental actions for the protection of natural value	556903,68	556903,68
11	Afforestation	13952,08	13952,08
12	Improving of infrastructure for livestock development	192901,09	192901,09
13	Less Favourite Areas	4881517,45	4881517,45
14	Support for quality schemes	0,00	0,00
15	Support of small scale, traditional processing	209556,17	209556,17
16	Protection of agricultural and traditional landscapes	696713,67	696713,67
17	Protection of forest fires and other natural disasters	200764,44	200764,44
18	Afforestation of non-agricultural land	55636,33	55636,33
19	Improvement of harvesting process	53503,29	53503,29
20	Technical support of the implementation, monitoring	0,00	0,00
21	Technical support of collective initiatives at local level	0,00	0,00
	Total	24796690,13	24796690,13

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CLEARANCE OF THE PAYING AGENCIES' ACCOUNTS
Member State	Paying Agency
Lithuania	NMA
Slovakia	APA

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