Commission Decision of 20 December 2007 on the clearance of the accounts of certain paying agencies in Germany, Italy, Luxembourg and Portugal concerning expenditure financed by the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), Guarantee Section, for the 2005 financial year (notified under document number C(2007) 6531) (Only the German, Italian, French and Portuguese texts are authentic) (2008/53/EC)
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THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the financing of the common agricultural policy, and in particular Article 7(3) thereof,
After consulting the Fund Committee,
Whereas:
(1) Commission Decisions 2006/322/EC and 2007/326/EC cleared, for the 2005 financial year, the accounts of all the paying agencies except for the German paying agency Bayern-Umwelt, the Italian paying agency AGEA, the Luxembourg paying agency Ministère de l’Agriculture and the Portuguese paying agency IFADAP.
(2) Following the transmission of new information and after additional checks, the Commission can now take a decision on the integrality, accuracy and veracity of the accounts submitted by the German paying agency Bayern-Umwelt, the Italian paying agency AGEA, the Luxembourg paying agency Ministère de l’Agriculture and the Portuguese paying agency IFADAP.
(3) In clearing the accounts of the paying agencies concerned, the Commission must take account of the amounts already withheld from the Member States concerned on the basis of Decision 2006/322/EC.
(4) In accordance with the second subparagraph of Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999, this Decision does not prejudice decisions adopted subsequently by the Commission excluding from Community financing expenditure not effected in accordance with Community rules,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
The accounts of the German paying agency Bayern-Umwelt, the Italian paying agency AGEA, the Luxembourg paying agency Ministère de l’Agriculture and the Portuguese paying agency IFADAP concerning expenditure financed by the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), Guarantee Section, for the 2005 financial year are hereby cleared. The amounts which are recoverable from, or payable to, each of the Member States concerned pursuant to this Decision are set out in the Annex.
Article 2
This Decision is addressed to the Federal Republic of Germany, the Italian Republic, the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and the Portuguese Republic.
Done at Brussels, 20 December 2007. For the Commission Mariann Fischer Boel Member of the Commission
ANNEX
ANNEX Clearance of the Paying Agencies' accounts — Financial year 2005 1)2) Amount to be recovered from or paid to the Member State
For the calculation of the amount to be recovered from or paid to the Member State the amount taken into account is the total of the annual declaration for the expenditure cleared (col.a). The reductions and suspensions are those taken into account in the advance system, to which are added in particular the corrections for the non respect of payment deadlines established in August, September and October 2005. MS 2005 — Expenditure for the Paying Agencies for which the accounts are Total a + b Reductions and suspensions for the whole financial year Total including reductions and suspensions Advances paid to the Member State for the financial year Amount to be recovered from (–) or paid to (+) the Member State Amount recovered from (–) or paid to (+) the Member State under Decision 2006/322/EC Amount to be recovered from (–) or paid to (+) the Member State under this decision cleared disjoined = expenditure declared in the annual declaration = total of the expenditure in the monthly declarations a b c = a + b d e = c + d f g = e – f h i = g – h DE EUR 6502786142,19 0,00 6502786142,19 –189199,45 6502596942,74 6503133482,71 –536539,97 –536539,97 0,00 IT EUR 5526562860,73 0,00 5526562860,73 –12280400,87 5514282459,86 5499732003,37 14550456,49 –2968785,68 17519242,17 LU EUR 45072490,21 0,00 45072490,21 –103737,13 44968753,08 44968753,08 0,00 0,00 0,00 PT EUR 892483113,11 0,00 892483113,11 –521198,20 891961914,91 891857592,63 104322,28 396402,59 –292080,31