
Article 1 
Member States shall use the amounts set out in the Annex to provide support to dairy farmers severely affected by the dairy crisis on the basis of objective criteria and in a non-discriminatory way, provided that these payments do not cause distortion of competition.
Article 2 

1. The measures provided for in Article 1 of this Regulation shall be deemed to be intervention measures intended to regulate agricultural markets within the meaning of Article 3(1)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005.
2. Payments in relation to the support referred to in Article 1 shall be made by the Member States by 30 June 2010 at the latest.
Article 3 
As regards the support provided for in Article 1, the Member States shall communicate to the Commission:

((a)) without delay and no later than 31 March 2010, a description of the objective criteria used to determine the methods for granting support and the provisions taken to avoid distortion of the market;
((b)) no later than 30 August 2010, the total amounts of aid paid and the number and type of beneficiaries.
Article 4 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the 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, 15 December 2009.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel BARROSO
ANNEX

million EUR
BE 7,212824
BG 1,842622
CZ 5,792943
DK 9,859564
DE 61,20356
EE 1,302069
IE 11,5025
EL 1,581891
ES 12,792178
FR 51,127334
IT 23,031475
CY 0,316812
LV 1,445181
LT 3,099461
LU 0,597066
HU 3,565265
MT 0,084511
NL 24,586045
AT 6,052604
PL 20,211209
PT 4,084693
RO 5,010401
SI 1,143094
SK 2,034727
FI 4,831752
SE 6,427521
UK 29,260698
EU-27 300,0