Commission Decision 2008/395/EC

law://eu/dec/2008/395@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 1290/2005 of 21 June 2005 on the financing of the common agricultural policy^note, and in particular Articles 30 and 39 thereof,After consulting the Committee on the Agricultural Funds,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 6(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 are to be cleared. The clearance covers the completeness, 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 referred to in Article 7(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 885/2006^note laying down detailed rules for the application of the procedure for the clearance of accounts of the EAGF for the submission to the Commission of the documents referred to in Article 8(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 and in Article 7(1) of Regulation (EC) No 885/2006, 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 2008 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 completeness, 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 Article 30(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005, 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:

Article 1 #

Without prejudice to Article 2, the accounts of the paying agencies of the Member States concerning expenditure in the field of rural development financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) in respect of the 2007 financial year, are hereby cleared.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.

Article 2 #

For the 2007 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		2007 — 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^note
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	17817990,09		17817990,09	0,00	17817990,09	17817394,00	596,09
CZ	EUR	188407840,07		188407840,07	0,00	188407840,07	107317031,00	81090809,07
EE	EUR	0,00	36236291,00	36236291,00	0,00	36236291,00	36236291,00	0,00
HU	EUR	178498827,76		178498827,76	0,00	178498827,76	142520308,00	35978519,76
LT	EUR	156247750,70		156247750,70	0,00	156247750,70	137893174,00	18354576,70
LV	EUR	110967368,28		110967368,28	0,00	110967368,28	92775801,00	18191567,28
MT	EUR	0,00	4148025,00	4148025,00	0,00	4148025,00	4148025,00	0,00
PL	EUR	1085818964,54		1085818964,54	0,00	1085818964,54	624783864,00	461035100,54
SI	EUR	88853612,73		88853612,73	0,00	88853612,73	29882274,00	58971338,73
SK	EUR	144596146,16		144596146,16	0,00	144596146,16	105327185,00	39268961,16

Annex II

CYPRUS
No	Measures	Expenditure 2007Annex I column ‘a’	ReductionsAnnex I column ‘d’	Amount cleared for 2007Annex I column ‘e’
		i	ii	iii = i + ii
1	Support of investments for management of animal waste	3225390,38		3225390,38
2	Encouragement for improvement and development	2413832,05		2413832,05
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	476161,06		476161,06
7	Support for setting-up of young farmers	0,00		0,00
8	Meeting EU standards	1327209,76		1327209,76
9	Adoption of agri-environmental measures	5598846,60		5598846,60
10	Agri-environmental actions for the protection of natural value	1385404,31		1385404,31
11	Afforestation	80294,63		80294,63
12	Improving of infrastructure for livestock development	600274,13		600274,13
13	Less-favoured areas	1298319,91		1298319,91
14	Support for quality schemes	0,00		0,00
15	Support of small-scale traditional processing	211518,23		211518,23
16	Protection of agricultural and traditional landscapes	504899,70		504899,70
17	Protection from forest fires and other natural disasters	293655,31		293655,31
18	Afforestation of non-agricultural land	314776,22		314776,22
19	Improvement of harvesting process	79455,98		79455,98
20	Technical support of the implementation, monitoring	0,00		0,00
21	Technical support of collective initiatives at local level	7951,82		7951,82
	Total	17817990,09	0,00	17817990,09

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CLEARANCE OF THE PAYING AGENCIES' ACCOUNTS
Member State	Paying agency
Estonia	PRIA
Malta	MRAE

Commission Decision 2008/395/EC

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