
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 937/2007 of 6 August 2007 amending Regulation (EC) No 1539/2006 adopting a plan allocating resources to the Member States to be charged against 2007 budget year for the supply of food from intervention stocks for the benefit of the most deprived persons in the Community, and derogating from Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3730/87 of 10 December 1987 laying down the general rules for the supply of food from intervention stocks to designated organisations for distribution to the most deprived persons in the Community, and in particular Article 6 thereof,
Whereas:

(1) In accordance with Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 of 29 October 1992 laying down detailed rules for the supply of food from intervention stocks for the benefit of the most deprived persons in the Community, the Commission adopted, by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1539/2006, a plan allocating resources to the Member States to be charged against the 2007 budget year for the supply of food from intervention stocks for the benefit of the most deprived persons in the Community. The plan lays down in particular, for each of the Member States applying the measure, the maximum financial resources available to carry out its part of the plan, and the quantity of each type of product to be withdrawn from the stocks held by the intervention agencies.

(2) Article 3(3) of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 requires a revision of the annual plan when changes occurring during its implementation by the Member States concern 5 % or more of the quantities or values entered per product in the Community plan.

(3) The under-utilisation of butter notified to the Commission concerns more than 5 % of the value of the total butter quantity in the annual plan 2007. Furthermore, certain cereals and sugar quantities are no longer required for the 2007 plan.

(4) In accordance with Article 3(4) of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92, the newly available resources should be allocated to other Member States on the basis of their applications.

(5) During the withdrawal operations of rice held in Greek intervention, it was discovered that the available quantities were not sufficient to allow for the full implementation of the annual plan in Greece. It is therefore necessary to adapt the allocation of intervention products or grants for the purchase on the market of products temporarily unavailable in intervention stocks.

(6) The first and second subparagraphs of Article 3(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 set the deadlines for withdrawal of the products from intervention stocks. As the modification of the plan allocates to Poland supplementary quantities of 203 tonnes of cereals and 3 224 tonnes of sugar and to Slovenia a supplementary quantity of 1 000 tonnes of cereals to be withdrawn from intervention stocks, it is appropriate to derogate from those deadlines as regards those quantities.

(7) Regulation (EC) No 1539/2006 should therefore be amended accordingly.

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

Article 1 
The annexes to Regulation (EC) No 1539/2006 are amended in accordance with the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2 
By way of derogation from Article 3 of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92, the deadlines provided for in the first subparagraph and in the first and in the fourth sentences of the second subparagraph of that Article shall not apply for the supplementary quantities of 1 203 tonnes of cereals and 3 224 tonnes of sugar allocated pursuant to the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 3 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that 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, 6 August 2007.
For the Commission
Jean-Luc DEMARTY
Director-General for Agriculturel and Rural Development
ANNEX

The annexes to Regulation (EC) No 1539/2006 are amended as follows:

((1)) Annex I is amended as follows:

((a)) the table in point (a) is replaced by the following:

(EUR)
‘Member State Allocation
Belgique/België 5 817 428
Eesti 324 891
Éire/Ireland 217 997
Elláda 6 689 132
España 50 340 744
France 49 940 164
Italia 70 764 888
Latvija 18 446
Lietuva 3 273 261
Luxembourg 80 707
Magyarország 7 896 638
Malta 384 898
Polska 42 884 522
Portugal 14 904 058
România 16 649 889
Slovenija 1 929 341
Suomi/Finland 2 709 509
Total 274 826 513’
((b)) the table in point (b) is replaced by the following:

(tonnes)
‘Member State Cereals Rice (paddy rice) Butter Sugar
Belgique/België 12 000   2 000
Eesti 3 000   
Éire/Ireland   80 
Elláda 11 760 2 755  
España 110 000  12 000 6 443
France 82 641 23 641 6 500 3 338
Italia 122 465 20 000 3 570 6 847
Latvija 173   
Lietuva 12 000   2 760
Magyarország 52 000   900
Malta 1 550   
Polska 120 433  2 400 11 522
Portugal 20 000 14 000 3 160 1 435
România 96 712   11 986
Slovenija 3 610   653
Suomi/Finland 14 651  422 
Total 662 995 60 396 28 132 47 884’
((2)) In Annex II, the table in point (a) is replaced by the following:
'
Member State EUR
Belgique/België 2 893 618
Eesti 5 190
Elláda 4 765 946
France 14 494 803
Italia 39 261 578
Luxembourg 76 864
Magyarország 1 797 520
Malta 118 789
Polska 16 770 240
Portugal 1 141 888
Slovenija 1 051 634
Total 82 378 070'
((3)) Annex III is replaced by the following:

ANNEX III 

Intra-Community transfers authorised under the plan for the 2007 budget Product Quantity(tonnes) Holder Consignee
1. Common wheat 2 207 MMM, Suomi/Finland Põllumajanduse Registrite ja Informatsiooni Amet, Eesti
2. Common wheat 11 760 BLE, Deutschland OPEKEPE, Elláda
3. Common wheat 110 000 ONIGC, France FEGA, España
4. Common wheat 103 429 BLE, Deutschland AGEA, Italia
5. Common wheat 19 036 AMA, Österreich AGEA, Italia
6. Common wheat 5 637 MMM, Suomi/Finland Agricultural and Food Products Market Regulation Agency, Lietuva
7. Common wheat 1 550 ONIGC, France National Research and Development Centre, Malta
8. Common wheat 20 000 ONIGC, France INGA, Portugal
9. Common wheat 96 712 MVH, Magyarország Paying and Intervention Agency for Agriculture, România
10. Common wheat and other cereals 3 610 MVH, Magyarország AAMRD, Slovenija
11. Rice 23 641 OPEKEPE, Elláda ONIGC, France
12. Rice 20 000 OPEKEPE, Elláda Ente Risi, Italia
13. Rice 14 000 OPEKEPE, Elláda INGA, Portugal
14. Butter 3 511 Department of Agriculture and Food, Ireland Office de l'Elevage, France
15. Sugar 3 338 FEGA, España ONIGC, France
16. Sugar 2 760 ARR, Polska Agricultural and Food Products Market Regulation Agency, Lietuva
17. Sugar 1 435 FEGA, España INGA, Portugal
18. Sugar 11 986 MVH, Magyarország Paying and Intervention Agency for Agriculture, România
