Commission Decision of 19 March 2009 excluding from Community financing certain expenditure incurred by the Member States under the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) and under the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) (notified under document number C(2009) 1945) (Only the Danish, Dutch, English, French, Greek, Italian, Slovenian and Spanish texts are authentic) (2009/253/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(4) thereof,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 of 21 June 2005 on the financing of the common agricultural policy, and in particular Article 31 thereof,
Having consulted the Committee on the Agricultural Funds,
Whereas:
(1) Under Article 7(4) of Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999, and Article 31 of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005, the Commission is to carry out the necessary verifications, communicate to the Member States the results of these verifications, take note of the comments of the Member States, initiate a bilateral discussion so that an agreement may be reached with the Member States in question, and formally communicate its conclusions to them.
(2) The Member States have had an opportunity to request the launch of a conciliation procedure. That opportunity has been used in some cases and the report issued on the outcome has been examined by the Commission.
(3) Under Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999 and Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005, only agricultural expenditure which has been incurred in a way that has not infringed Community rules may be financed.
(4) In the light of the verifications carried out, the outcome of the bilateral discussions and the conciliation procedures, part of the expenditure declared by the Member States does not fulfil this requirement and cannot, therefore, be financed under the EAGGF Guarantee Section and the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund, hereinafter referred to as EAGF.
(5) The amounts that are not recognised as being chargeable to the EAGGF Guarantee Section and the EAGF should be indicated. Those amounts do not relate to expenditure incurred more than twenty-four months before the Commission’s written notification of the results of the verifications to the Member States.
(6) As regards the cases covered by this Decision, the assessment of the amounts to be excluded on grounds of non-compliance with Community rules was notified by the Commission to the Member States in a summary report on the subject.
(7) This Decision is without prejudice to any financial conclusions that the Commission may draw from the judgments of the Court of Justice in cases pending on 6 January 2009 and relating to its content,
HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:
Article 1
The expenditure itemised in the Annex hereto that has been incurred by the Member States’ accredited paying agencies and declared under the EAGGF Guarantee Section or under the EAGF shall be excluded from Community financing because it does not comply with Community rules.
Article 2
This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium, Kingdom of Denmark, Ireland, the Hellenic Republic, the Kingdom of Spain, the French Republic, the Italian Republic, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Slovenia and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Done at Brussels, 19 March 2009. For the Commission Mariann Fischer Boel Member of the Commission
ANNEX
ANNEX Budget item 6 7 0 1
MS Measure FY Reason for correction Type % Currency Amount Deductions already made Financial impact BE Export refunds — Sugar and isoglucose 2004 Insufficient quantity of laboratory controls of sugar. forfaitaire 2,00 EUR –2752373,87 0,00 –2752373,87 BE Export refunds — Sugar and isoglucose 2005 Insufficient quantity of laboratory controls of sugar. forfaitaire 2,00 EUR –3348166,37 0,00 –3348166,37 BE Export refunds — Sugar and isoglucose 2006 Insufficient quantity of laboratory controls of sugar. forfaitaire 2,00 EUR –1096253,86 0,00 –1096253,86 BE Fruit and Vegetables — Operational Programmes 2005 Ineligible expenditure comprising environmental packaging and VAT ponctuelle EUR –1189054,23 0,00 –1189054,23 BE Fruit and Vegetables — Operational Programmes 2006 Ineligible expenditure including environmental packaging and VAT ponctuelle EUR –535735,88 0,00 –535735,88 TOTAL BE –8921584,21 0,00 –8921584,21 CY Wine — Restructuring 2005 Overpayments of amounts to individual producers ponctuelle CYP –2094,55 0,00 –2094,55 TOTAL CY –2094,55 0,00 –2094,55 DK Arable Crops 2003 Weakness in the control of the compliance with set-aside areas forfaitaire 5,00 DKK –16820597,23 0,00 –16820597,23 DK Arable Crops 2003 Weakness in the control of the compliance with set-aside areas forfaitaire 10,00 DKK –48235864,52 0,00 –48235864,52 DK Arable Crops 2003 Weakness in the control of the compliance with set-aside areas forfaitaire 5,00 DKK –180971473,05 0,00 –180971473,05 DK Arable Crops 2004 Weakness in key-control: remote sensing. forfaitaire 2,00 DKK –6594611,09 0,00 –6594611,09 DK Arable Crops 2004 Weakness in the control of the compliance with set-aside areas forfaitaire 5,00 DKK –199488578,07 0,00 –199488578,07 DK Arable Crops 2004 Weakness in the control of the compliance with set-aside areas forfaitaire 10,00 DKK –48736215,92 0,00 –48736215,92 DK Arable Crops 2005 Weakness in key-control: remote sensing. forfaitaire 2,00 DKK –1987122,96 0,00 –1987122,96 DK Arable Crops 2005 Weakness in the control of the compliance with set-aside areas forfaitaire 5,00 DKK –201721301,02 0,00 –201721301,02 DK Arable Crops 2005 Weakness in the control of the compliance with set-aside areas forfaitaire 10,00 DKK –45156517,78 0,00 –45156517,78 TOTAL DK –749712281,64 0,00 –749712281,64 ES Fruit and Vegetables — Citrus Processing 2005 Non-recognitnion of one of the producers' organisation criterion. ponctuelle EUR –78111,82 0,00 –78111,82 ES Fruit and Vegetables — Citrus Processing 2006 Non-recognitnion of one of the producers' organisation criterion. ponctuelle EUR –79222,56 0,00 –79222,56 ES Fruit and Vegetables — Citrus Processing 2007 Non-recognitnion of one of the producers' organisation criterion. ponctuelle EUR –39411,30 0,00 –39411,30 ES Meat Premiums — Ewe and Goats 2003 Updated calculation of correction based on the new financial data obtained ponctuelle EUR –2415,00 0,00 –2415,00 ES Meat Premiums — Ewe and Goats 2004 Updated calculation of correction based on the new financial data obtained ponctuelle EUR –102075,02 0,00 –102075,02 ES Meat Premiums — Ewe and Goats 2005 Updated calculation of correction based on the new financial data obtained ponctuelle EUR –95914,93 0,00 –95914,93 TOTAL ES –397150,63 0,00 –397150,63 FR Irregularities Reimbursment due to erroneous application of the 50/50 rule EUR 265473,73 0,00 265473,73 FR Food Aid within the Community 2005 Failure to meet payment deadlines. Absence of sanctions. forfaitaire 2,00 EUR –959937,85 0,00 –959937,85 FR Food Aid within the Community 2005 Failure to meet payment deadlines. Absence of sanctions. ponctuelle EUR –148951,85 0,00 –148951,85 FR Food Aid within the Community 2006 Failure to meet payment deadlines. Absence of sanctions. forfaitaire 2,00 EUR –838194,08 0,00 –838194,08 FR Food Aid within the Community 2006 Failure to meet payment deadlines. Absence of sanctions. ponctuelle EUR –340621,43 0,00 –340621,43 TOTAL FR –2022231,48 0,00 –2022231,48 GB Export Refunds 2003 Risk analysis not used properly — reduction of control rate not justified forfaitaire 5,00 GBP –890012,69 0,00 –890012,69 GB Export Refunds 2004 Risk analysis not used properly — reduction of control rate not justified; Insufficient certification of exit from Community forfaitaire 5,00 GBP –2291169,57 0,00 –2291169,57 GB Export Refunds 2004 Non-Annex I goods — insufficient verification of recipes forfaitaire 10,00 GBP –43131,68 0,00 –43131,68 GB Export Refunds 2005 Risk analysis not used properly — reduction of control rate not justified; Insufficient certification of exit from Community forfaitaire 5,00 GBP –3395655,55 0,00 –3395655,55 GB Export Refunds 2005 Non-Annex I goods — insufficient verification of recipes forfaitaire 10,00 GBP –68291,82 0,00 –68291,82 GB Export Refunds 2006 Risk analysis not used properly — reduction of control rate not justified; Insufficient certification of exit from Community forfaitaire 5,00 GBP –2291169,57 0,00 –2291169,57 GB Export Refunds 2006 Non-Annex I goods — insufficient verification of recipes forfaitaire 10,00 GBP –68291,82 0,00 –68291,82 GB Export Refunds 2007 Risk analysis not used properly — reduction of control rate not justified forfaitaire 5,00 GBP –247225,73 0,00 –247225,73 TOTAL GB –9294948,43 0,00 –9294948,43 GR Export refunds — Non-Annex I 2004 Insufficient controls. Risk of ineligible payments. Unreliable data on quantities of sugar exported. forfaitaire 10,00 EUR –160378,12 0,00 –160378,12 GR Export refunds — Non-Annex I 2005 Insufficient controls. Risk of ineligible payments. Unreliable data on quantities of sugar exported. forfaitaire 10,00 EUR –104574,50 0,00 –104574,50 GR Export refunds — Non-Annex I 2006 Insufficient controls. Risk of ineligible payments. Unreliable data on quantities of sugar exported. forfaitaire 10,00 EUR –10276,40 0,00 –10276,40 GR Export refunds — Sugar and isoglucose 2004 Insufficient controls. Risk of ineligible payments. Unreliable data on quantities of sugar exported. forfaitaire 10,00 EUR –838787,30 0,00 –838787,30 GR Export refunds — Sugar and isoglucose 2005 Insufficient controls. Risk of ineligible payments. Unreliable data on quantities of sugar exported. forfaitaire 10,00 EUR –99948,50 0,00 –99948,50 GR Export refunds — Sugar and isoglucose 2006 Insufficient controls. Risk of ineligible payments. Unreliable data on quantities of sugar exported. forfaitaire 10,00 EUR –69462,90 0,00 –69462,90 TOTAL GR –1283427,72 0,00 –1283427,72 IE Export Refunds & Food Aid outside the UE 2003 Weaknesses in risk analysis. Insufficient quality and quantity of physical checks. forfaitaire 2,00 EUR –824680,26 0,00 –824680,26 IE Export Refunds & Food Aid outside the UE 2004 Weaknesses in risk analysis. Insufficient quality and quantity of physical checks. forfaitaire 2,00 EUR –916724,78 0,00 –916724,78 IE Export Refunds & Food Aid outside the UE 2005 Weaknesses in risk analysis. Insufficient quality and quantity of physical checks. forfaitaire 2,00 EUR –653050,12 0,00 –653050,12 IE Export Refunds & Food Aid outside the UE 2006 Weaknesses in risk analysis. Insufficient quality and quantity of physical checks. forfaitaire 2,00 EUR –46017,73 0,00 –46017,73 TOTAL IE –2440472,89 0,00 –2440472,89 IT Other Direct Aid — Silk Worms 2004 Insufficient administrative controls of aid applications and not satisfactory control of minimum weight forfaitaire 5,00 EUR –226,54 0,00 –226,54 IT Other Direct Aid — Silk Worms 2005 Insufficient administrative controls of aid applications and not satisfactory control of minimum weight forfaitaire 5,00 EUR –1632,44 0,00 –1632,44 IT Other Direct Aid — Silk Worms 2006 Insufficient administrative controls of aid applications and not satisfactory control of minimum weight forfaitaire 5,00 EUR –857,69 0,00 –857,69 IT Other Direct Aid — Silk Worms 2007 Insufficient administrative controls of aid applications and not satisfactory control of minimum weight forfaitaire 5,00 EUR –1625,77 0,00 –1625,77 TOTAL IT –4342,44 0,00 –4342,44 SI Direct Payments 2005 Deficiencies in key-controls: incorrect control approach, technique and tools. forfaitaire 5,00 SIT –175559567,33 0,00 –175559567,33 SI Direct Payments 2006 Deficiencies in key-controls: incorrect control approach, technique and tools. forfaitaire 5,00 SIT –180027349,79 0,00 –180027349,79 TOTAL SI –355586917,12 0,00 –355586917,12