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9.8.2013 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
214/7
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 768/2013
of 8 August 2013
amending Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 on detailed rules to implement Council Regulation (EC) No
797/2004 on measures improving general conditions for the production and marketing of apiculture
products
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
hives as provided for in Article 1(a) of Regulation (EC)
No 917/2004. The updated numbers of hives should be
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
reflected in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 917/2004.
Union,
(5) Regulation
(EC)
No
917/2004
should
therefore
be
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of
amended accordingly.
22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agri
cultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agri
(6) The
amendments
provided
for
in
this
Regulation
are
in
cultural products (Single CMO Regulation) ( 1 ), and in particular
accordance with the opinion of the Management
Article 110 in conjunction with Article 4 thereof,
Committee for the Common Organisation for Agri
cultural Markets,
Whereas:
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
(1) Commission
Regulation
(EC)
No
917/2004
( 2 ) lays down
provisions for the implementation of the national
Article 1
apiculture programmes provided for in Article 105 of
Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 is amended as follows:
Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007. According to Article 2(2)
and (3) of Regulation (EC) No 917/2004, the apiculture
(1) in Article 2, paragraphs 2 and 3 are replaced by the
programme measures laid down for every year of the
following:
three-year period shall be implemented by 31 August
‘2. Each
year
of
the
apiculture
programme
(“apiculture
of the year to which they relate and payments shall be
year”) shall run for 12 consecutive months from 1
carried out during the annual exercise established from
September until 31 August.
16 October of the same year to 15 October of the
following year. As a result, Member States cannot
3. The
apiculture
programme
measures
laid
down
for
implement apiculture measures between 1 September of
each apiculture year shall be implemented in full within
the year of the apiculture programme and 15 October of
the apiculture year concerned.
the same year.
Payments related to measures implemented during each
(2)
In order to avoid the gap between the implementation
apiculture year shall be made within the 12-month period
and the funding of apiculture measures, the relevant
starting on 16 October of that apiculture year and ending
dates need to be changed so that measures can be imple
on 15 October of the following year.’;
mented all year round.
(2) Annex I is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this
(3) The
Union
financial
contribution
to
national
apiculture
Regulation.
programmes is based on the bee census/number of hives
in each Member State as set out in Annex I to Regulation
Article 2
(EC) No 917/2004.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that
of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
(4) In
accordance
with
Article
109
of
Regulation
(EC)
No
1234/2007, Member States submitted their national
It shall apply as from the 2014 apiculture year starting on
apiculture programmes and updated the numbers of
1 September 2013.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 8 August 2013.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
( 1 ) OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1.
( 2 ) OJ L 163, 30.4.2004, p. 83.

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Official Journal of the European Union
9.8.2013
ANNEX
‘ANNEX I
Member State
Bee census
Number of hives
BE 107
800
BG 526
014
CZ 540
705
DK 150
000
DE 711
299
EE 41
400
IE 15
710
EL 1
584
206
ES 2
459
292
FR 1
636
000
HR 491
481
IT 1
316
774
CY 44
953
LV 83
801
LT 144
969
LU 7
804
HU 1
088
590
MT 3
142
NL 80
000
AT 376
485
PL 1
280
693
PT 566
793
RO 1
550
000
SI 167
000
SK 254
859
FI 50
000
SE 150
000
UK 274
000
EU 28 15
704
270’

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