Legal provisions of COM(2014)31 - Amendment of Regulation (EU) No 1370/2013 determining measures on fixing certain aids and refunds related to the common organisation of the markets in agricultural products - Main contents
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| dossier | COM(2014)31 - Amendment of Regulation (EU) No 1370/2013 determining measures on fixing certain aids and refunds related to the common ... |
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| document | COM(2014)31  |
| date | April 11, 2016 |
Contents
Article 1 - Amendments to Regulation (EU) No 1370/2013
| (1) | Articles 5 and 6 are replaced by the following: ‘Article 5 Aid for the supply of school fruit and vegetables and of school milk, accompanying educational measures and related costs 1. Union aid for the financing of accompanying educational measures as referred to in point (b) of Article 23(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 shall not exceed 15 % of Member States' annual definitive allocations as referred to in paragraph 6 of this Article. 2. Union aid for related costs as referred to in point (c) of Article 23(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 shall in total not exceed 10 % of Member States' annual definitive allocations as referred to in paragraph 6 of this Article. The Commission shall adopt implementing acts fixing the maximum level of Union aid per category of such costs as a percentage of Member States' annual definitive allocations or as a percentage of the costs of the products concerned. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 15(2) of this Regulation. 3. The amount of Union aid for the milk component of the products referred to in Article 23(5) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 shall not exceed EUR 27/100 kg. 4. The aid referred to in Article 23(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 shall be allocated to each Member State in accordance with this paragraph and taking into account the criteria laid down in the first subparagraph of Article 23a(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013. From 1 August 2017 until 31 July 2023, the indicative allocations of the aid referred to in points (a) and (b) of the second subparagraph of Article 23a(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 for each Member State shall be as set out in Annex I. During that period, point (c) of the first subparagraph of Article 23a(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 shall not apply to Croatia. From 1 August 2023, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts fixing, on the basis of the criteria referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 23a(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, the indicative allocations to each Member State of the aid referred to in points (a) and (b) of the second subparagraph of Article 23a(1) of that Regulation. However, Member States shall each receive at least EUR 290 000 of Union aid for the distribution of school fruit and vegetables and at least EUR 193 000 of Union aid for the distribution of school milk, as defined in Article 23(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013. The Commission shall subsequently assess at least every 3 years whether those indicative allocations remain consistent with the criteria laid down in Article 23a(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013. Where necessary, the Commission shall adopt implementing acts fixing new indicative allocations. The implementing acts referred to in this paragraph shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 15(2) of this Regulation. 5. Where, for a given year, a Member State has not submitted a request for Union aid in accordance with Article 23a(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 or has requested only part of its indicative allocation as referred to in paragraph 4 of this Article, the Commission shall reallocate that indicative allocation or the unrequested part thereof to those Member States who have notified it of their willingness to use more than their indicative allocation. The Commission shall, by means of implementing acts, adopt the measures necessary for carrying out such a reallocation, which shall be based on the criterion referred to in point (a) of the first subparagraph of Article 23a(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and limited according to the level of use of the definitive allocation of Union aid as referred to in paragraph 6 of this Article by the Member State concerned for the school year that ended prior to the annual request for Union aid. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 15(2) of this Regulation. 6. Following the requests submitted by the Member States in accordance with Article 23a(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, the Commission shall each year adopt implementing acts fixing the definitive allocation of aid for school fruit and vegetables and for school milk among participating Member States within the limits set out in Article 23a(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, taking account of the transfers referred to in Article 23a(4) of that Regulation. Those implementing acts shall be adopted in accordance with the examination procedure referred to in Article 15(2) of this Regulation.’; |
| (2) | the following Annex is inserted: ‘ANNEX I INDICATIVE ALLOCATIONS for the period 1 August 2017 to 31 July 2023 (as referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 5(4))
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| (3) | the Annex is numbered as ‘Annex II’. |
Article 2 - Entry into force and application
It shall apply from 1 August 2017.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.