
Article 1 

1. The slaughter premium and the additional payments may be granted in the Netherlands until 15 October 2006 for livestock slaughtered in a slaughterhouse in 2001 under Directive 85/511/EEC during the foot-and-mouth disease outbreak.
2. The slaughter premium and the additional payments may also be granted for livestock slaughtered in a slaughterhouse under the measures to control bovine spongiform encephalopathy under Directive 90/425/EEC and Regulation (EC) No 999/2001 during the period of application thereof, from 1 January 2000 at the earliest to 31 December 2003 at the latest.
Article 2 

1. For the purposes of granting the slaughter premium, the competent authority of the Netherlands shall ensure that the animals met the following eligibility requirements at the time of slaughter:
(a) they must have been bulls, steers, cows and heifers from the age of eight months;
(b) they must have been calves of more than one and less than seven months old.The premium shall be paid to producers who have kept animals for a minimum retention period of two months ending less than one month before slaughter.
2. The slaughter premium shall be granted within the limit of the unused part of the national ceiling of 1 207 849 adult bovine animals and 1 198 113 calves each year.The amount of the premium for each eligible animal as referred to in paragraph 1(a) shall be EUR 27 for the 2000 calendar year, EUR 53 for the 2001 calendar year and EUR 80 for the 2002 and 2003 calendar years.The amount of the premium for each eligible animal as referred to in paragraph 1(b) shall be EUR 17 for the 2000 calendar year, EUR 33 for the 2001 calendar year and EUR 50 for the 2002 and 2003 calendar years.
Article 3 
The competent authority of the Netherlands shall make the additional payments per head and slaughter premium unit on the basis of objective criteria including, in particular, the relevant production structures and conditions, in such a way as to ensure equal treatment between producers and avoid distortion of the market or competition. Such payments shall not be linked to fluctuations in market prices.
The additional payments shall be granted within the limit of the unused part of a global amount of EUR 8,4 million for 2000, EUR 16,9 million for 2001 and EUR 25,3 million each for 2002 and 2003.
Article 4 
The slaughter premium and the additional payments shall be granted provided that they have not been included in the value used to determine the compensation paid for the animals concerned under Decision 90/424/EEC and Decision 2001/652/EC nor actually paid out in that respect.
Article 5 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of 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, 20 July 2006.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission