
Article 1 
The requirement of ex-ante approval by the Commission of project selection and contracting for measure 1.2, measure 3.2, measure 3.3 and measure 3.5 by Romania provided for in Article 12(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1266/1999 is hereby waived.
Article 2 
Management of the SAPARD Programme is conferred on a provisional basis to:

1.. The SAPARD Agency under the Ministry of Agriculture, Forests and Rural Development, 43 Ştirbei Vodă, Sector 1, Bucharest, for the implementation of measure 1.2 ‘Improving the structures for quality, veterinary and plant-health controls, for the quality of foodstuffs and consumer protection’; measure 3.2 ‘Setting-up producers’ groups’; measure 3.3 ‘Agricultural production methods designed to protect the environment and maintain the countryside’ and measure 3.5 ‘Forestry’ as defined in the Programme for Agriculture and Rural Development that was approved by Commission Decision C(2000) 3742 final on 12 December 2000, as last amended by Commission Decision C(2006) 1194, adopted on 11 April 2006.
2.. The National Fund within the Ministry of Public Finance, 44 Mircea Vodă Bulevard, Bucharest, for the financial functions it is due to perform in the framework of the implementation of the SAPARD programme for measure 1.2, measure 3.2, measure 3.3 and measure 3.5 for Romania.
Article 3 
Expenditure pursuant to this Decision shall be eligible for Community co-finance only if incurred by beneficiaries from the date of this Decision, or if later, the date of the instrument making them a beneficiary for the project in question, except for feasibility and related studies, where this date shall be 12 December 2000, provided in all cases it has not been paid by the SAPARD Agency prior to the date of this Decision.
Article 4 
Without prejudice to any decisions granting aid under the Sapard to individual beneficiaries, the rules for eligibility of expenditure proposed by Romania by letter No 70832 of 22 September 2005 and registered in the Commission under No 29071, shall apply.
Done at Brussels, 20 April 2006.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission