
COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 674/2008 of 16 July 2008 modifying Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, Council Regulation (EC) No 247/2006 and establishing budgetary ceilings for 2008 for the partial or optional implementation of the Single Payment Scheme and the annual financial envelopes for the Single Area Payment Scheme provided for in Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 

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) No 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), 143b(3), 143bc(1) and the second subparagraph of Article 143bc(2) thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 247/2006 of 30 January 2006 laying down specific measures for agriculture in the outermost regions of the Union, and in particular the second sentence of Article 20(3) thereof,
Whereas:

(1) Annex VIII to Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 establishes, for each Member State, the national ceilings which cannot be exceeded by the reference amounts referred to in Chapter 2 of Title III of that Regulation.

(2) Pursuant to the first sentence of Article 20(3) of Regulation (EC) No 247/2006, Portugal decided to reduce the national ceiling of suckler cow premium rights for 2008 and subsequent years and to transfer the corresponding financial amount in order to strengthen the contribution made by the Community, in accordance with Article 23 of Regulation (EC) No 247/2006, to financing specific measures provided for under that Regulation. The national ceilings for Portugal for 2008 and for subsequent years, as set out in Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 should therefore be reduced by the amount to be added to the financial sums established in Article 23(2) of Regulation (EC) No 247/2006 for 2009 and subsequent budgetary years.

(3) For Member States implementing in 2008 the Single Payment Scheme provided for under Title III of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, the budgetary ceilings for each of the payments referred to in Articles 66 to 69 of that Regulation should be established for 2008 under the conditions laid down in Section 2 of Chapter 5 of Title III of the Regulation.

(4) For Member States making use of the option provided for in Article 70 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, the budgetary ceilings applicable to the direct payments excluded from the Single Payment Scheme should be established for 2008.

(5) For the sake of clarity, the 2008 budgetary ceilings for the Single Payment Scheme should be published after the revised ceilings included in Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 have been deducted from the ceilings established for payments referred to in Articles 66 to 70 of that Regulation.

(6) For Member States implementing in 2008 the Single Area Payment Scheme provided for in Title IVa of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, the annual financial envelopes for 2008 should be established in accordance with Article 143b(3) of that Regulation.

(7) For the sake of clarity, the maximum amount of funds available to Member States applying the Single Area Payment Scheme for granting separate sugar payments in 2008 under Article 143ba of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, established on the basis of their notifications, should be published.

(8) For the sake of clarity, the maximum amount of funds available to Member States applying the Single Area Payment Scheme for granting separate fruit and vegetable payments in 2008 under Article 143bb of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, established on the basis of their notifications, should be published.

(9) For Member States applying the Single Area Payment Scheme, the 2008 budgetary ceilings applicable to transitional payments for fruit and vegetables in accordance with Article 143bc(1) and (2) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, should therefore be established, on the basis of their notifications.

(10) Regulations (EC) No 1782/2003 and (EC) No 247/2006 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(11) 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 
In Annex VIII to Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, the sums relating to Portugal for 2008 and subsequent years are replaced with the following figures:
'2008608 2212009608 7512010 and subsequent years608 447'.
Article 2 
The figures relating to the Azores and Madeira for the 2009 budgetary year and subsequent years contained in the table in Article 23(2) of Regulation (EC) No 247/2006 are replaced as follows:
'200987,082010 and further87,18'.
Article 3 

1. The budgetary ceilings for 2008 referred to in Articles 66 to 69 of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 are listed in Annex I to this Regulation.
2. The budgetary ceilings for 2008 referred to in Article 70(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 are listed in Annex II to this Regulation.
3. The budgetary ceilings for 2008 for the Single Payment Scheme referred to in Title III of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 are listed in Annex III to this Regulation.
4. The annual financial envelopes for 2008 referred to in Article 143b(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 are set out in Annex IV to this Regulation.
5. The maximum amounts of funding available to the Czech Republic, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania and Slovakia for granting the separate sugar payment in 2008, as referred to in Article 143ba(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, are listed in Annex V to this Regulation.
6. The maximum amounts of funding available to the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia for granting the separate fruit and vegetable payment in 2008, as referred to in Article 143bb(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, are listed in Annex VI to this Regulation.
7. The budgetary ceilings for 2008 referred to in Article 143bc(1) and the second subparagraph of Article 143bc(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 are listed in Annex VII to this Regulation.
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.Done at Brussels, 16 July 2008.
For the Commission
Mariann FISCHER BOEL
Member of the Commission
ANNEX I
BUDGETARY CEILINGS FOR DIRECT PAYMENTS TO BE GRANTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLES 66 TO 69 OF REGULATION (EC) No 1782/2003

2008 calendar year(EUR thousand)
 BE DK DE EL ES FR IT NL AT PT SI FI SE UK
Arable crops area payments     372 670 1 154 046        
Durum wheat supplementary payment     42 025 14 820        
Suckler cow premium 77 565    261 153 734 416   70 578 78 695    
Additional suckler cow premium 19 389    26 000    99 9 462    
Special beef premium  33 085         6 298 24 420 37 446 
Slaughter premium, adults     47 175 101 248  62 200 17 348 8 657    
Slaughter premium, calves 6 384    560 79 472  40 300 5 085 946    
Sheep and goat premium  855   183 499     21 892 432 600  
Sheep premium      66 455        
Sheep and goat supplementary premium     55 795     7 184 149 200  
Supplementary sheep premium      19 572        
Aid for area under hops   2 277   98   27  124   
Tomatoes — Article 68b(1)    10 720 28 117 4 017 91 984   16 667    
Fruit and vegetables other than tomatoes — Article 68b(2)    17 920 93 733 43 152 9 700       
Article 69, all sectors             3 421 
Article 69, arable crops    47 323   141 712   1 878  5 840  
Article 69, rice          150    
Article 69, beef and veal    8 810 54 966  28 674   1 681 3 713 10 118  29 800
Article 69, sheep and goat meat    12 615   8 665   616    
Article 69, cotton     13 432         
Article 69, olive oil    22 196      5 658    
Article 69, tobacco    7 578 2 353         
Article 69, sugar    2 697 18 985  9 932   1 203    
Article 69, dairy products     19 763         
ANNEX II
BUDGETARY CEILINGS FOR DIRECT PAYMENTS TO BE GRANTED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE PROVISIONS OF ARTICLE 70 OF REGULATION (EC) No 1782/2003

2008 calendar year(EUR thousand)
 Belgium Greece Spain France Italy Netherlands Portugal Finland
Article 70(1)(a)
Aid for seeds 1 397 1 400 10 347 2 310 13 321 726 272 1 150
Article 70(1)(b)
Arable crops payments   23     
Grain legumes aid   1     
Crop specific aid for rice    3 053    
Tobacco aid       166 
Dairy premiums       12 608 
Additional payments to dairy producers       6 254 
ANNEX III
BUDGETARY CEILINGS FOR THE SINGLE PAYMENT SCHEME

2008 calendar yearMember State (EUR thousand)
Belgium 502 200
Denmark 993 338
Germany 5 741 963
Ireland 1 340 752
Greece 2 234 039
Spain 3 600 357
France 6 159 613
Italy 3 827 342
Luxembourg 37 051
Malta 3 017
Netherlands 743 163
Austria 649 473
Portugal 434 232
Slovenia 62 902
Finland 523 362
Sweden 719 414
United Kingdom 3 947 375
ANNEX IV
ANNUAL FINANCIAL ENVELOPES FOR THE SINGLE AREA PAYMENT SCHEME

2008 calendar yearMember State (EUR thousand)
Bulgaria 248 821
Czech Republic 437 762
Estonia 50 629
Cyprus 24 597
Latvia 69 769
Lithuania 184 702
Hungary 641 446
Poland 1 432 192
Romania 529 556
Slovakia 188 923
ANNEX V
MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF FUNDING AVAILABLE TO MEMBER STATES FOR GRANTING THE SEPARATE SUGAR PAYMENTS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 143ba OF REGULATION (EC) NO 1782/2003

2008 calendar yearMember State (EUR thousand)
Czech Republic 34 730
Latvia 6 110
Lithuania 9 476
Hungary 37 865
Poland 146 677
Romania 2 781
Slovakia 17 712
ANNEX VI
MAXIMUM AMOUNT OF FUNDING AVAILABLE TO MEMBER STATES FOR GRANTING THE SEPARATE FRUIT AND VEGETABLE PAYMENTS REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 143bb OF REGULATION (EC) No 1782/2003

2008 calendar yearMember State (EUR thousand)
Czech Republic 414
Hungary 4 756
Poland 6 715
Slovakia 516
ANNEX VII
BUDGETARY CEILINGS FOR TRANSITIONAL PAYMENTS IN THE FRUIT AND VEGETABLE SECTOR REFERRED TO IN ARTICLE 143bc OF REGULATION (EC) No 1782/2003

2008 calendar year(1 000 EUR)
Member State Cyprus Romania Slovakia
Tomatoes — Article 143bc(1)  869 509
Fruit and vegetables other than tomatoes — Article 143bc(2). 4 478  