
Article 1 
Annex VIII to the Act of Accession of Bulgaria and Romania shall be amended as follows:

1.. Section I shall be amended as follows:

((a)) points A and B shall be deleted;
((b)) point C shall be replaced by the following:
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C. 
In addition to the measures provided for in Article 63(c) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005, a support may be granted to the following measures:


((a)) building representative local development partnerships;
((b)) drawing up integrated development strategies;
((c)) financing research and preparing applications for support.
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((c)) point D shall be replaced by the following:
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D. 

((1)) Support shall be granted for the provision of farm advisory and extension services.
For the period 2007 to 2009, that support may not be included in the rural development programme if support as provided for in Article 24 of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 is foreseen.
((2)) For the period 2010 to 2013, support shall be granted only for the provision of services to farmers receiving semi-subsistence support as referred to in Article 20(d)(i) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005.
As a minimum the advisory services to farmers referred to in point 1 shall cover:

((a)) the statutory management requirements and the good agricultural and environmental conditions referred to in Articles 4 and 5 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and in Annexes III and IV thereto;
((b)) occupational safety standards based on Community legislation.
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((d)) point E shall be amended as follows:

((i)) in point 3, the first sentence shall be replaced by the following:
'The Community contribution to support granted under this subsection in Bulgaria or Romania in respect of each of the years 2007, 2008 and 2009 shall not exceed 20 % of its respective annual allocation originating from the EAGGF Guarantee Section as referred to in Article 34(2) of the this Act of Accession.';
((ii)) the following point shall be added:
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(5) The Community financial contribution to this measure shall not be taken into account for the calculation of the balance between objectives under Article 17 of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005.
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((e)) points F and G shall be deleted.
2.. In Section II, point 1 shall be deleted.
3.. Section IV shall be replaced by the following:
'By way of derogation from Article 70(3)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005, the financial contribution of the Community may amount to 80 % for axis 1 and 3 as well as for the technical assistance.By way of derogation from Article 70(3)(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005, the financial contribution of the Community may amount to 82 % for axis 2.'.
Article 2 
This Decision shall be drawn up in the Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, Estonian, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hungarian, Irish, Italian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Maltese, Polish, Portuguese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Bulgarian and Romanian languages, all 23 texts being equally authentic.
Article 3 
This Decision shall take effect on 1 January 2007 subject to the entry into force of the Treaty of Accession of Bulgaria and Romania.
Done at Luxembourg, 19 June 2006.
For the Council
The President
J. PRÖLL