Legal provisions of COM(2004)163 - Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1268/1999 on Community support for pre-accession measures for agriculture and rural development in the applicant countries of Central and Eastern Europe in the pre-accession period

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dossier COM(2004)163 - Amendment of Regulation (EC) No 1268/1999 on Community support for pre-accession measures for agriculture and rural ...
document COM(2004)163 EN
date November 16, 2004

Contents

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 1268/1999 is hereby amended as follows:

1.in Article 2, the following indent shall be added:

‘—with regard to Bulgaria and Romania, preparation of rural communities to conceive and implement local rural development strategies, and integrated territorial rural development strategies of a pilot nature, within the limits set by Article 33f of Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 of 17 May 1999 on support for rural development from the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) (5).

2.Article 8 shall be replaced by the following:

‘Article 8

Rate of Community contribution and aid intensities

1. The Community contribution shall not exceed the ceiling of 75 % of the total eligible public expenditure.

However, that ceiling shall be:

(a)80 % for measures referred to in the fourth, seventh, eleventh and sixteenth indents of Article 2, and any project concerning infrastructure;

(b)85 % for relevant projects under any measure where the Commission determines that exceptional natural disasters have occurred;

(c)100 % for the measure referred to in the fifteenth indent of Article 2 and in Article 7(4).

2. Public aid shall not exceed the ceiling of 50 % of the total eligible cost of the investment.

However, that ceiling shall be:

(a)55 % for investments in agricultural holdings made by young farmers;

(b)60 % for investments in agricultural holdings in mountain areas;

(c)65 % for investments in agricultural holdings in mountain areas made by young farmers;

(d)75 % for investments referred to in paragraph 1(b);

(e)100 % for investments in infrastructure not of a nature to generate substantial net revenue;

(f)100 % for measures referred to under the sixteenth indent of Article 2.

In determining the rate of public aid for the purposes of this paragraph, account shall not be taken of national aid of a nature to facilitate access to credits granted without the benefit of any Community contribution provided under the present instrument.

In any case the Community contribution shall comply with the ceilings on rates of aid and cumulation laid down for State aid in the Europe Agreements.

3. The amount of the Community contribution shall be expressed in euro.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

It shall apply from 1 January 2004.

However, point 2 of Article 1 shall apply from 1 January 2000 as far as the newly introduced second last subparagraph of Article 8(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1268/1999 is concerned.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.