
Article 1 

1. The publication referred to in Article 44a of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 shall include the following information:
(a) the first name and the surname where the beneficiaries are natural persons;
(b) the full legal name as registered where the beneficiaries are legal persons;
(c) the full name of the association as registered or otherwise officially recognised where the beneficiaries are associations of natural or legal persons without an own legal personality;
(d) the municipality where the beneficiary resides or is registered and, where available, the postal code or the part thereof identifying the municipality;
(e) for the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund, hereinafter referred to as EAGF, the amount of direct payments within the meaning of Article 2(d) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 received by each beneficiary in the financial year concerned;
(f) for the EAGF, the amount of payments other than those referred to in point (e) received by each beneficiary in the financial year concerned;
(g) for the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development, hereinafter referred to as EAFRD, the total amount of public funding received by each beneficiary in the financial year concerned, which includes both the Community and the national contribution;
(h) the sum of the amounts referred to in points (e), (f) and (g) received by each beneficiary in the financial year concerned;
(i) the currency of these amounts.
2. Member States may publish more detailed information than provided for in paragraph 1.
Article 2 
The information referred to in Article 1 shall be made available on a single website per Member State through a search tool allowing the users to search for beneficiaries by name, municipality, amounts received as referred to in (e), (f), (g) and (h) of Article 1 or a combination thereof and to extract all the corresponding information as a single set of data.
Article 3 

1. The information referred to in Article 1 shall be published by 30 April each year for the preceding financial year.
2. For the EAFRD expenditure paid between 1 January and 15 October 2007, the information shall be published by 30 September 2008, provided that the expenditure has been reimbursed by the EAFRD to the Member State concerned by that date. Otherwise, the information shall be published together with the information for the financial year 2008.
3. The information shall remain available on the website for two years from the date of their initial publication.
Article 4 

1. Member States shall inform the beneficiaries that their data will be made public in accordance with Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 and this Regulation and that they may be processed by auditing and investigating bodies of the Communities and the Member States for the purpose of safeguarding the Communities' financial interests.
2. In case of personal data, the information referred to in paragraph 1 shall be provided in accordance with the requirements of Directive 95/46/EC and the beneficiaries shall be informed of their rights as data subjects under this Directive and of the procedures applicable for exercising these rights.
3. The information referred to in paragraphs 1 and 2 shall be provided to the beneficiaries by including it in the application forms for receiving funds deriving from the EAGF and EAFRD, or otherwise at the time when the data are collected.By way of derogation from the first subparagraph, as regards data related to payments received in the financial years 2007 and 2008, the information shall be provided at least four weeks before the date of their publication.
Article 5 

1. The Commission shall set up and maintain a Community website under its central internet address which includes the links to the websites of the Member States. The Commission shall provide updates of the internet links according to the information sent by Member States.
2. The Member States shall send to the Commission the internet address of their website as soon as it has been set up as well as any subsequent changes thereof having an influence on the accessibility of their website from the Community website.
3. Member States shall nominate a body in charge of setting up and maintaining the single website referred to in Article 2. They shall inform the Commission of the name and address details of this body.
Article 6 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
It shall apply to EAGF expenditure incurred from 16 October 2007 and to EAFRD expenditure incurred from 1 January 2007.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 18 March 2008.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission