Commission Regulation (EC) No 118/2005

of 26 January 2005

modifying Annex VIII to Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and establishing budgetary ceilings for partial or optional implementation of the Single Payment Scheme and annual financial envelopes for Single Area Payment Scheme provided for in that Regulation

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 of 29 September 2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers and amending Regulations (EEC) No 2019/93, (EC) No 1452/2001, (EC) No 1453/2001, (EC) No 1454/2001, (EC) N 1868/94, (EC) No 1251/1999, (EC) No 1254/1999, (EC) No 1673/2000, (EEC) No 2358/71 and (EC) No 2529/2001 [1], and in particular Articles 64(2), 70(2), 71(2), 143b(3) and 145(i) thereof,

Whereas:

(1) For the Member States making use of the option provided for in Article 62 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, and in function of the information communicated as referred to in Article 145(i) of that Regulation, the amounts of Annex VIII to that Regulation should be revised.

(2) For Member States implementing the single payment scheme provided for in Title III of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 in 2005, the budgetary ceilings for each of the payments referred to in Articles 66 to 69 of that Regulation should be fixed for 2005.

(3) For the Member States making use, in 2005, of the option provided for in Article 70 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, the budgetary ceilings applying to the direct payments excluded from the single payment scheme should be fixed for 2005.

(4) For the Member States making use of the transitional period provided for in Article 71 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, the budgetary ceilings applying to the direct payments listed in Annexe VI to that Regulation should be fixed for 2005.

(5) For the sake of clarity, it is appropriate to publish the budgetary ceilings for 2005 of the single payment scheme after deduction, from the revised ceilings of Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, of the ceilings established for the payments referred to in Articles 66 to 70 of that Regulation.

(6) For those of the Member States which acceded to the Community in 2004 and will implement the Single Area Payment Scheme provided for in Title IVa of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 in 2005, the annual financial envelopes for that year should be fixed in accordance with Article 143b (3) of that Regulation.

(7) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for direct payments,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 is replaced by the text set out in Annex I to this Regulation.

Article 2

1. The budgetary ceilings for 2005 referred to in Article 64(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 shall be as set out in Annexes II and III to this Regulation.

2. The budgetary ceilings for 2005 referred to in Article 71(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 shall be as set out in Annex IV to this Regulation.

3. The budgetary ceilings for the single payment scheme in 2005 shall be as set out in Annex V to this Regulation.

4. The annual financial envelopes for 2005 referred to in Article 143b(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 shall be as set out in Annex VI to this Regulation.

Article 3

The Member States choosing the regional implementation provided for in Article 58 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 shall communicate to the Commission the regional ceilings established by 31 December of the first year of implementation of the single payment scheme by 1st March of the following year.

Article 4

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

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

Done at Brussels, 26 January 2005.

For the Commission

Mariann Fischer Boel

Member of the Commission

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[1] OJ L 270, 21.10.2003, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2217/2004 (OJ L 375, 23.12.2004, p. 1).

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