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21.6.2012 Official
Journal
of
the
European
Union L
160/13
COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING REGULATION (EU) No 524/2012
of 20 June 2012
amending Annex I to Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 establishing common rules for direct
support schemes for farmers under the common agricultural policy
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
limits of the amounts referred to in Annex XII to that
Regulation corresponding to the soft fruit payment.
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European
Union,
(4) For
that
reason,
the
non-inclusion
of
the
separate
soft
fruit payment in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 73/2009
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 of
constitutes an omission that needs to be remedied.
19 January 2009 establishing common rules for direct
support schemes for farmers under the common agricultural
(5) Annex
I
to
Regulation
(EC)
No
73/2009
should
therefore
policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers,
be amended accordingly.
amending Regulations (EC) No 1290/2005, (EC) No
247/2006, (EC) No 378/2007 and repealing Regulation (EC)
(6) Since
the
separate
soft
fruit
payment
may
be
granted
No 1782/2003 ( 1 ), and in particular Article 142(i) thereof,
from 2012, this Regulation should apply from
1 January 2012.
Whereas:
(7) The
measures
provided
for
in
this
Regulation
are
in
(1) Annex
I
to
Regulation
(EC)
No
73/2009
establishes
the
accordance with the opinion of the Management
list of support schemes giving right to a direct payment
Committee for Direct Payments,
under that Regulation.
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
(2) Article
129(1)
of
Regulation
(EC)
No
73/2009
gives
new
Member States applying the single area payment scheme
Article 1
the possibility to grant a separate soft fruit payment from
2012. Bulgaria, Hungary and Poland have decided to use
In Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, the following entry
that possibility.
is inserted after the entry ‘Fruit and vegetables’:
(3) The
separate
soft
fruit
payment
is
not
listed
in
Annex
I
‘Fruit and vegetables Article
129(1)
of
this Separate soft fruit
to Regulation (EC) No 73/2009. However, by its very
Regulation
payment’
nature, that payment should be considered a direct
payment as defined in Article 2(d) of that Regulation
Article 2
since it replaces, from the 2012 calendar year, the tran
sitional soft fruit payment granted pursuant to Article 98
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following
of that Regulation, which is listed in Annex I to that
that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European
Regulation as a direct payment. Moreover, according to
Union.
Article 129(2) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 the
separate soft fruit payment is to be granted within the
It shall apply from 1 January 2012.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 20 June 2012.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
( 1 ) OJ L 30, 31.1.2009, p. 16.

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