
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 118/2005 of 26 January 2005 modifying Annex VIII to Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 and establishing budgetary ceilings for partial or optional implementation of the Single Payment Scheme and annual financial envelopes for Single Area Payment Scheme provided for in that Regulation 

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 of 29 September 2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers and amending Regulations (EEC) No 2019/93, (EC) No 1452/2001, (EC) No 1453/2001, (EC) No 1454/2001, (EC) N 1868/94, (EC) No 1251/1999, (EC) No 1254/1999, (EC) No 1673/2000, (EEC) No 2358/71 and (EC) No 2529/2001, and in particular Articles 64(2), 70(2), 71(2), 143b(3) and 145(i) thereof,
Whereas:

(1) For the Member States making use of the option provided for in Article 62 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, and in function of the information communicated as referred to in Article 145(i) of that Regulation, the amounts of Annex VIII to that Regulation should be revised.

(2) For Member States implementing the single payment scheme provided for in Title III of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 in 2005, the budgetary ceilings for each of the payments referred to in Articles 66 to 69 of that Regulation should be fixed for 2005.

(3) For the Member States making use, in 2005, of the option provided for in Article 70 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, the budgetary ceilings applying to the direct payments excluded from the single payment scheme should be fixed for 2005.

(4) For the Member States making use of the transitional period provided for in Article 71 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, the budgetary ceilings applying to the direct payments listed in Annexe VI to that Regulation should be fixed for 2005.

(5) For the sake of clarity, it is appropriate to publish the budgetary ceilings for 2005 of the single payment scheme after deduction, from the revised ceilings of Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, of the ceilings established for the payments referred to in Articles 66 to 70 of that Regulation.

(6) For those of the Member States which acceded to the Community in 2004 and will implement the Single Area Payment Scheme provided for in Title IVa of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 in 2005, the annual financial envelopes for that year should be fixed in accordance with Article 143b (3) of that Regulation.

(7) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for direct payments,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1 
Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 is replaced by the text set out in Annex I to this Regulation.
Article 2 

1. The budgetary ceilings for 2005 referred to in Article 64(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 shall be as set out in Annexes II and III to this Regulation.
2. The budgetary ceilings for 2005 referred to in Article 71(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 shall be as set out in Annex IV to this Regulation.
3. The budgetary ceilings for the single payment scheme in 2005 shall be as set out in Annex V to this Regulation.
4. The annual financial envelopes for 2005 referred to in Article 143b(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 shall be as set out in Annex VI to this Regulation.
Article 3 
The Member States choosing the regional implementation provided for in Article 58 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 shall communicate to the Commission the regional ceilings established by 31 December of the first year of implementation of the single payment scheme by 1st March of the following year.
Article 4 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh 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.
ANNEX I‘ANNEX VIII 


NATIONAL CEILINGS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 41(EUR 1 000)
 2005 2006 2007, 2008 and 2009 2010 and subsequent
Belgium 411 053 530 573 530 053 530 053
Denmark 943 369 996 165 996 000 996 000
Germany 5 148 003 5 492 201 5 492 000 5 496 000
Greece 838 289 1 701 289 1 723 289 1 761 289
Spain 3 266 092 4 065 063 4 263 063 4 275 063
France 7 199 000 7 231 000 8 091 000 8 099 000
Ireland 1 260 142 1 322 305 1 322 080 1 322 080
Italy 2 539 000 3 464 517 3 464 000 3 497 000
Luxembourg 33 414 36 602 37 051 37 051
Netherlands 386 586 386 586 779 586 779 586
Austria 613 000 614 000 712 000 712 000
Portugal 452 000 493 000 559 000 561 000
Finland 467 000 467 000 552 000 552 000
Sweden 637 388 650 108 729 000 729 000
United Kingdom 3 697 528 3 870 420 3 870 473 3 870 473’
ANNEX II

BUDGETARY CEILINGS FOR DIRECT PAYMENTS TO BE GRANTED UNDER ARTICLES 65 TO 69 OF REGULATION (EC) No 1782/2003Calendar year 2005(EUR 1 000)
 Belgium Denmark Germany Italy Austria Portugal Sweden United Kingdom
 Flanders Scotland
Suckler cow premium 77 565     70 578 79 031  
Add. suckler cow premium 19 389     99 9 503  
Special beef premium   33 085     37 446 
Slaughter premium, adults      17 348 8 657  
Slaughter premium, calves  6 384    5 085 946  
Sheep and goat premium   855    21 892  
Sheep and goat suppl. premium       7 184  
Hops    2 277  27   
Article 69        2 869 
Article 69, arable crops     142 491  1 885  
Article 69, Rice       150  
Article 69, Beef and veal     28 674  1 684  29 800
Article 69, Sheep and goat     8 665  616  
ANNEX III

BUDGETARY CEILINGS FOR DIRECT PAYMENTS TO BE GRANTED UNDER ARTICLE 70 OF REGULATION (EC) No 1782/2003Calendar year 2005(EUR 1 000)
 Belgium Italy Portugal
Article 70(1)(a)
Production aid for seeds 1 397 13 321 272
Article 70(1)(b)
Arable crops payments   1 871

ANNEX IV

BUDGETARY CEILINGS FOR DIRECT PAYMENTS TO BE GRANTED UNDER ARTICLE 71 OF REGULATION (EC) No 1782/2003Calendar year 2005(EUR 1 000)
 Greece Finland France Malta Netherlands Slovenia Spain
Arable crops area payments 63 EUR/t 297 389 278 100 5 050 765 174 174 186 12 467 1 621 440
Arable crops area payments 63 EUR/t, POSEI       23
Specific regional aid for arable crops 24 EUR/t  80 700     
Durum wheat supplementary payment (291 EUR/ha) and special aid for non traditional zones (46 EUR/ha) 179 500  62 828    171 822
Grain legumes aid 2 100  1 331    60 518
Grain legumes aid, POSEI       1
Seed aid 1 400 2 900 16 581 29 10 400 35 10 347
Suckler cow premium 25 700 9 300 733 137 26 10 900 5 183 279 830
Additional suckler cow premium 3 100 600 1 279 3  626 28 937
Special beef premium 29 900 40 700 389 619 201 20 400 5 813 147 721
Slaughter premium, adults 8 000 27 600 253 119 144 62 200 3 867 142 954
Slaughter premium, calves  100 79 472  40 300 538 602
Beef extensification payment 17 600 16 780 260 795  900 5 360 153 486
Additional payments to beef producers 3 800 6 100 90 586 19 23 900 889 31 699
Sheep and goat premium 180 300 1 200 136 021 53 13 800 520 366 997
Sheep and goat supplementary premium 63 200 400 40 391 18 300 178 111 589
Additional payments to sheep and goat producers 8 800 100 7 026 3 700 26 18 655
Payments to starch potato producers (44,216 EUR/t)  2 400 11 250  21 800  
Area aid for rice (102 EUR/t) 15 400  10 827    67 991
Area aid for rice (102 EUR/t), French Overseas Departments   3 053    
Dried fodder income payments 1 100 20 41 224  6 800  44 075
Add. beef and sheep premiums in Aegean Islands 1 000      
Hops area aid   391   298 375

ANNEX V

BUDGETARY CEILINGS FOR SINGLE PAYMENT SCHEME IN MEMBER STATES OR REGIONSCalendar year 2005(EUR 1 000)
Member State and/or region 
BELGIUM
 Flanders
 Wallonia 306 318
DENMARK 909 429
GERMANY
 Baden-Wurttemberg
 Bayern
 Brandenburg and Berlin
 Hessen
 Niedersachsen and Bremen
 Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
 Nordrhein-Westfalen
 Rheinland-Pfalz
 Saarland
 Sachsen
 Sachsen-Anhalt
 Schleswig-Holstein and Hamburg
 Thuringen 5 145 726
IRELAND 1 260 142
ITALY 2 345 849
LUXEMBOURG 33 414
AUSTRIA 519 863
PORTUGAL 302 562
SWEDEN
 Region 1
 Region 2
 Region 3
 Region 4
 Region 5 597 073
UNITED KINGDOM
 England 1
 England 2
 England 3
 Scotland
 Wales
 Northern Ireland 3 667 728



ANNEX VI

ANNUAL FINANCIAL ENVELOPES FOR THE SINGLE AREA PAYMENT SCHEMECalendar year 2005(EUR 1 000)
Member State 
Czech Republic 249 296
Estonia 27 908
Hungary 375 431
Latvia 38 995
Lithuania 104 346
Poland 823 166
Slovak Republic 106 959
Cyprus 14 274