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Contents

1. Preamble
2. 1. Article 1
   2. Article 2
   3. Article 3
3. ANNEX
4. ANNEX I CLEARANCE OF THE PAYING AGENCIES' ACCOUNTS FINANCIAL YEAR 2008 — EAGF RURAL DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURE IN NEW MEMBER STATES Amount to be recovered from or paid to the Member State
5. ANNEX II CLEARED EXPENDITURE BY EAGF RURAL DEVELOPMENT MEASURE FOR EXERCISE 2008 IN NEW MEMBER STATES CZECH REPUBLIC ESTONIA CYPRUS LATVIA LITHUANIA HUNGARY POLAND SLOVENIA SLOVAKIA Differences between annual accounts and declarations of expenditure
6. ANNEX III CLEARANCE OF THE PAYING AGENCIES' ACCOUNTS FINANCIAL YEAR 2008 — EAGF RURAL DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURE IN NEW MEMBER STATES List of the paying agencies for which the accounts are disjoined and are subject of a later clearance decision

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 of 21 June 2005 on the financing of the common agricultural policy, and in particular Articles 30 and 39 thereof,

After consulting the Committee on the Agricultural Funds,

Whereas:

(1) On the basis of the annual accounts submitted by the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia concerning expenditure in the field of rural development measures, accompanied by the information required, the accounts of the paying agencies referred to in Article 6(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 are to be cleared. The clearance covers the completeness, accuracy and veracity of the accounts transmitted in the light of the reports established by the certification bodies.

(2) The time limits granted to the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia referred to in Article 7(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 885/2006 of 21 June 2006 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 as regards the accreditation of paying agencies and other bodies and the clearance of the accounts of the EAGF and of the EAFRD for the submission to the Commission of the documents referred to in Article 8(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 and in Article 7(1) of Regulation (EC) No 885/2006, have expired.

(3) The Commission has checked the information submitted and communicated to the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia before 31 March 2009 the results of its verifications, along with the necessary amendments.

(4) For the rural development expenditure covered by Article 7(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 27/2004 of 5 January 2004 laying down transitional detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 as regards the financing by the EAGF of rural development measures in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia the outcome of the clearance decision is to be deducted from or added to subsequent payments made by the Commission.

(5) In the light of the verifications made, the annual accounts and the accompanying documents permit the Commission to take, for certain paying agencies, a decision on the completeness, accuracy and veracity of the accounts submitted. The details of these amounts were described in the Summary Report that was presented to the Fund Committee at the same time as this Decision.

(6) In the light of the verifications made, the information submitted by certain paying agencies requires additional inquiries and their accounts cannot be therefore cleared in this Decision.

(7) For the rural development expenditure covered by Regulation (EC) No 27/2004, the amounts recoverable or payable under the clearance of accounts decision are to be deducted from or added to subsequent payments.

(8) In accordance with Article 30(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005, this Decision does not prejudice decisions taken subsequently by the Commission excluding from Community financing expenditure not effected in accordance with Community rules,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

Without prejudice to Article 2, the accounts of the paying agencies of the Member States concerning expenditure in the field of rural development financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) in respect of the 2008 financial year, are hereby cleared. The amounts which are recoverable from, or payable to, each Member State pursuant to this Decision in the field of rural development measures applicable in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia are set out in Annex I and Annex II.

Article 2

For the 2008 financial year, the accounts of the Member States' paying agencies in the field of rural development measures applicable in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia, set out in Annex III, are disjoined from this Decision and shall be the subject of a future clearance Decision.

Article 3

This Decision is addressed to the Czech Republic, the Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Hungary, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland, the Republic of Slovenia and the Slovak Republic.

Done at Brussels, 29 April 2009. For the Commission Mariann Fischer Boel Member of the Commission

ANNEX

ANNEX I CLEARANCE OF THE PAYING AGENCIES' ACCOUNTS FINANCIAL YEAR 2008 — EAGF RURAL DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURE IN NEW MEMBER STATES Amount to be recovered from or paid to the Member State

Note: In respect of the Czech Republic, the amount cleared for financial year 2008 added to the amounts cleared in previous years; exceeds the maximum EAGGF contribution set out in the the Commission Decision approving the programme. The final EAGGF balance to be paid for the programme will be calculated in compliance with the total EAGGF contribution. MS 2008 — Expenditure for the paying agencies for which the accounts are Total a + b Reductions Total Interim payments reimbursed to the Member State for the financial year Amount to be recovered from (-) or paid to (+) the Member State cleared disjoined = expenditure declared in the annual declaration = total of interim payments reimbursed to the Member State for the financial year a b c = a + b d e = c + d f g = e - f CZ EUR 32399539,50 32399539,50 0,00 32399539,50 0,00 32399539,50 EE EUR 24148768,74 24148768,74 0,00 24148768,74 0,00 24148768,74 CY EUR 17570826,20 17570826,20 0,00 17570826,20 11388159,00 6182667,20 LV EUR 46986857,87 46986857,87 0,00 46986857,87 0,00 46986857,87 LT EUR 79148259,37 79148259,37 0,00 79148259,37 0,00 79148259,37 HU EUR 90290537,46 90290537,46 0,00 90290537,46 0,00 90290537,46 MT EUR 0,00 2699140,00 2699140,00 0,00 2699140,00 2699140,00 0,00 PL EUR 121595191,28 121595191,28 0,00 121595191,28 0,00 121595191,28 SI EUR 607424,53 607424,53 0,00 607424,53 0,00 607424,53 SK EUR 39259760,34 39259760,34 0,00 39259760,34 0,00 39259760,34 MS Advances paid but still to be cleared for the programme implementation (Article 32 of Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999) CZ EUR 86848000,00 EE EUR 24080000,00 CY EUR 11968000,00 LV EUR 52496000,00 LT EUR 78320000,00 HU EUR 96368000,00 MT EUR 4304000,00 PL EUR 458624000,00 SI EUR 45056000,00 SK EUR 63536000,00

ANNEX II CLEARED EXPENDITURE BY EAGF RURAL DEVELOPMENT MEASURE FOR EXERCISE 2008 IN NEW MEMBER STATES CZECH REPUBLIC ESTONIA CYPRUS LATVIA LITHUANIA HUNGARY POLAND SLOVENIA SLOVAKIA Differences between annual accounts and declarations of expenditure

No Measures Expenditure 2008 Annex I column a Reductions Annex I column d Amount cleared for 2008 Annex I column e i ii iii = i + ii 1 Early retirement 486177,10 486177,10 2 Less-favoured areas –62324,19 –62324,19 3 Agri-environment 24415487,28 24415487,28 4 Forestry 768151,81 768151,81 5 Producer groups 6792047,50 6792047,50 6 Technical assistance 0,00 0,00 7 Sapard 0,00 0,00 700 Investments in agricultural holdings, Regulation (EC) No 1268/1999 0,00 0,00 701 Processing and marketing, Regulation (EC) No 1268/1999 0,00 0,00 702 Flood damage 1 0,00 0,00 703 Improving structures for quality 0,00 0,00 704 Land improvement and reparcelling 0,00 0,00 705 Renovation and development of villages 0,00 0,00 706 Flood damage 2 0,00 0,00 707 Development of rural infrastructure 0,00 0,00 708 Development and diversification of activities 0,00 0,00 709 Agricultural production methods to protect 0,00 0,00 710 Improvement of vocational training 0,00 0,00 711 Technical assistance Sapard 0,00 0,00 Total 32399539,50 0,00 32399539,50 No Measures Expenditure 2008 Annex I column a Reductions Annex I column d Amount cleared for 2008 Annex I column e i ii iii = i + ii 1 Less-favoured areas –85013,95 –85013,95 2 Agri-environment 20416942,68 20416942,68 3 Afforestation of agricultural land 125877,94 125877,94 4 Support for semi-substance farms 2154035,51 2154035,51 5 Meeting standards 1373830,87 1373830,87 6 Complements in direct payments 4570,72 4570,72 7 Technical assistance 155007,67 155007,67 8 Sapard 0,00 0,00 9 Support to areas with environmental restrictions 3517,30 3517,30 Total 24148768,74 0,00 24148768,74 No Measures Expenditure 2008 Annex I column a Reductions Annex I column d Amount cleared for 2008 Annex I column e i ii iii = i + ii 1 Support of investments for management of animal waste 2160970,53 2160970,53 2 Encouragement of the improvement and the development 3845690,82 3845690,82 3 Encouragement of the set up of producer groups 391894,08 391894,08 4 Promotion of vocational training of farmers 0,00 0,00 5 Technical and advisory service to the farmers 58475,17 58475,17 6 Early retirement 500463,80 500463,80 7 Support for setting up of young farmers 710000,00 710000,00 8 Meeting EU standards 1890818,08 1890818,08 9 Adoption of agri-environmental measures 2724287,26 2724287,26 10 Agri-environmental actions for the protection of natural value 2608009,46 2608009,46 11 Afforestation 40915,05 40915,05 12 Improving of infrastructure for livestock development 490532,61 490532,61 13 Less-favoured areas –13576,13 –13576,13 14 Support for quality schemes 673718,97 673718,97 15 Support of small scale, traditional processing 584241,84 584241,84 16 Protection of agricultural and traditional landscapes 282638,86 282638,86 17 Protection of forest fires and other natural disasters 123163,39 123163,39 18 Afforestation of non agricultural land 396079,52 396079,52 19 Improvement of harvesting process 0,00 0,00 20 Technical support of the implementation, monitoring 70039,46 70039,46 21 Technical support of collective initiatives at local level 32463,43 32463,43 Total 17570826,20 0,00 17570826,20 No Measures Expenditure 2008 Annex I column a Reductions Annex I column d Amount cleared for 2008 Annex I column e i ii iii = i + ii 1 Early retirement 3250393,40 3250393,40 2 Producer groups 1589329,59 1589329,59 3 Support for semi-substance farms 10953829,98 10953829,98 4 Meeting standards 7050638,64 7050638,64 5 Agri-environment 23854472,13 23854472,13 6 Less-favoured areas 34948,53 34948,53 7 Technical assistance 258913,87 258913,87 8 Obligations transferred from previous programming period –5668,27 –5668,27 9 Allocations of resources for single area payments 0,00 0,00 Total 46986857,87 0,00 46986857,87 No Measures Expenditure 2008 Annex I column a Reductions Annex I column d Amount cleared for 2008 Annex I column e i ii iii = i + ii 1 Agri-environment 27947981,79 27947981,79 2 Less-favoured areas and areas with environmental restrictions 48234,08 48234,08 3 Meeting standards 26055356,07 26055356,07 4 Afforestation of agricultural land 1734572,99 1734572,99 5 Early retirement 19490903,99 19490903,99 6 Support for semi-subsistence farms undergoing restructuring 2081962,83 2081962,83 7 Other measures 447848,76 447848,76 8 Technical assistance 1330659,16 1330659,16 9 Complementary national direct payments 10739,70 10739,70 Total 79148259,37 0,00 79148259,37 No Measures Expenditure 2008 Annex I column a Reductions Annex I column d Amount cleared for 2008 Annex I column e i ii iii = i + ii 1 Agri-environment 59606523,82 59606523,82 2 Meeting standards 13784071,07 13784071,07 3 Afforestation 15357233,59 15357233,59 4 Support for semi-substance farms 322737,06 322737,06 5 Producer groups –233,15 –233,15 6 Early retirement 0,00 0,00 7 Less-favoured areas –25011,06 –25011,06 8 Technical assistance 1245216,13 1245216,13 9 Projects approved under Regulation (EC) No 1268/1999 0,00 0,00 10 Complementary national direct payments 0,00 0,00 Total 90290537,46 0,00 90290537,46 No Measures Expenditure 2008 Annex I column a Reductions Annex I column d Amount cleared for 2008 Annex I column e i ii iii = i + ii 1 Early retirement 25431473,58 25431473,58 2 Support for semi-substance farms 12965617,28 12965617,28 3 Less-favoured areas –1487716,01 –1487716,01 4 Agri-environment undertakings and animal welfare 5663544,07 5663544,07 5 Afforestation 11625652,61 11625652,61 6 Meeting EU standards 62703110,98 62703110,98 7 Producer Groups 1799132,10 1799132,10 8 Technical assistance 2763199,78 2763199,78 9 Complements to direct payments 140155,01 140155,01 10 Projects approved under Regulation (EC) No 1268/1999 –8978,12 –8978,12 Total 121595191,28 0,00 121595191,28 No Measures Expenditure 2008 Annex I column a Reductions Annex I column d Amount cleared for 2008 Annex I column e i ii iii = i + ii 1 Less-favoured areas 78615,04 78615,04 2 Agri-environment –1190735,17 –1190735,17 3 Early retirement 1386969,91 1386969,91 4 Meeting standards 199761,17 199761,17 5 Technical assistance 101777,75 101777,75 6 Sapard programme 34856,75 34856,75 7 Complements to direct payments –3820,92 –3820,92 Total 607424,53 0,00 607424,53 No Measures Expenditure 2008 Annex I column a Reductions Annex I column d Amount cleared for 2008 Annex I column e i ii iii = i + ii 1 Investments in agricultural holdings 1650413,98 1650413,98 2 Training 0,00 0,00 3 Less-favoured areas and areas with environmental restrictions 317367,06 317367,06 4 Meeting standards 3982447,52 3982447,52 5 Agri-environmental support 25815864,82 25815864,82 6 Improving processing and marketing of agricultural products 942660,39 942660,39 7 Forest management 4564,40 4564,40 8 Afforestation of agricultural land 106689,23 106689,23 9 Land consolidation 465593,60 465593,60 10 Diversification of agricultural activities 34451,27 34451,27 11 Support for semi-subsistence farms 414691,29 414691,29 12 Producer groups 2387788,82 2387788,82 13 Technical assistance including evaluation 3137462,36 3137462,36 14 Complements to direct payments –234,40 –234,40 901 Investments in agricultural holdings, Regulation (EC) No 1268/1999 0,00 0,00 905 Agri-environmental support — projects approved under Regulation (EC) No 1268/1999 0,00 0,00 907 Forest management — projects approved under Regulation (EC) No 1268/1999 0,00 0,00 912 Producer groups — project approved under Regulation (EC) No 1268/1999 0,00 0,00 Total 39259760,34 0,00 39259760,34

ANNEX III CLEARANCE OF THE PAYING AGENCIES' ACCOUNTS FINANCIAL YEAR 2008 — EAGF RURAL DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURE IN NEW MEMBER STATES List of the paying agencies for which the accounts are disjoined and are subject of a later clearance decision

Member State Paying agency Malta MRRA

Versions

1. 2009-04-29

Cited by

• Commission Decision of 2 February 2010 on the clearance of the accounts of the paying agencies of Malta concerning expenditure in the field of rural development measures financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) for the 2008 financial year (notified under document C(2010) 468) (Only the Maltese text is authentic) (2010/68/EU) Decision · Grade B

  Commission Decision 2009/366/EC cleared, for the 2008 financial year, the accounts of all the paying agencies except for the Maltese paying agency MRRA.