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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 2009 — 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 2009 IN NEW MEMBER STATES DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ANNUAL ACCOUNTS AND DECLARATIONS OF EXPENDITURE CYPRUS LATVIA LITHUANIA MALTA POLAND SLOVAKIA
6. ANNEX III CLEARANCE OF THE PAYING AGENCIES’ ACCOUNTS FINANCIAL YEAR 2009 — 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 EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the functioning of the European Union,

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 Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland 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 Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland 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 Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland and Slovakia before 31 March 2010 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 EAGGF Guarantee Section of rural development measures in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Hungary, Malta, Poland, Slovenia and Slovakia the outcome of the clearance of accounts 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 European Union financing expenditure not effected in accordance with European Union 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 2009 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 Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland and Slovakia are set out in Annex I and Annex II.

Article 2

For the 2009 financial year, the accounts of the Member States’ paying agencies in the field of rural development measures applicable in Estonia, Cyprus, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Poland 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 Republic of Estonia, the Republic of Cyprus, the Republic of Latvia, the Republic of Lithuania, the Republic of Malta, the Republic of Poland and the Slovak Republic.

Done at Brussels, 30 April 2010. For the Commission Dacian Cioloş Member of the Commission

ANNEX

ANNEX I CLEARANCE OF THE PAYING AGENCIES’ ACCOUNTS FINANCIAL YEAR 2009 — EAGF RURAL DEVELOPMENT EXPENDITURE IN NEW MEMBER STATES. Amount to be recovered from or paid to the Member State.

MS 2009 — 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 EE EUR 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 CY EUR 9474074,82 9474074,82 0,00 9474074,82 0,00 9474074,82 LV EUR 2607932,10 2607932,10 0,00 2607932,10 0,00 2607932,10 LT EUR 4033561,97 4033561,97 0,00 4033561,97 0,00 4033561,97 MT EUR 5102120,76 5102120,76 0,00 5102120,76 457469,86 4644650,90 PL EUR 12361738,57 12361738,57 0,00 12361738,57 0,00 12361738,57 SK EUR 7348431,19 7348431,19 0,00 7348431,19 0,00 7348431,19 MS Advances paid but still to be cleared for the programme implementation [Article 32 of Council Regulation No. 1260/1999]. EE EUR 24080000,00 CY EUR 11968000,00 LV EUR 52496000,00 LT EUR 78320000,00 MT EUR 4304000,00 PL EUR 458624000,00 SK EUR 63536000,00

ANNEX II CLEARED EXPENDITURE BY EAGF RURAL DEVELOPMENT MEASURE FOR EXERCISE 2009 IN NEW MEMBER STATES DIFFERENCES BETWEEN ANNUAL ACCOUNTS AND DECLARATIONS OF EXPENDITURE CYPRUS LATVIA LITHUANIA MALTA POLAND SLOVAKIA

No Measures Expenditure 2009 Annex I column a Reductions Annex I column d Amount cleared for 2009 Annex I column e i ii iii = i + ii 1 Support of investments for management of animal waste 2171324,36 2171324,36 2 Encouragement of the improvement and the development 2808953,00 2808953,00 3 Encouragement of the set up of producer groups 100000,00 100000,00 4 Promotion of vocational training of farmers 214482,99 214482,99 5 Technical and advisory service to the farmers 114647,20 114647,20 6 Early retirement 119962,87 119962,87 7 Support for setting up of young farmers 1355000,00 1355000,00 8 Meeting EU standards 1059306,78 1059306,78 9 Adoption of agri-environmental measures –35501,90 –35501,90 10 Agri-environmental actions for the protection of natural value –30271,74 –30271,74 11 Afforestation 2371,79 2371,79 12 Improving of infrastructure for livestock development 0,00 0,00 13 Less Favoured Areas 1040,45 1040,45 14 Support for quality schemes 276389,31 276389,31 15 Support of small scale, traditional processing 271178,37 271178,37 16 Protection of agricultural and traditional landscapes 152497,44 152497,44 17 Protection of forest fires and other natural disasters 369758,71 369758,71 18 Afforestation of non agricultural land 295623,90 295623,90 19 Improvement of harvesting process –854,30 –854,30 20 Technical support of the implementation, monitoring 62239,78 62239,78 21 Technical support of collective initiatives at local level 165925,81 165925,81 Total 9474074,82 0,00 9474074,82 No Measures Expenditure 2009 Annex I column a Reductions Annex I column d Amount cleared for 2009 Annex I column e i ii iii = i + ii 1 Early retirement –1195,73 –1195,73 2 Producer groups 0,00 0,00 3 Support for semi-substance farms –264,78 –264,78 4 Meeting standards 423612,67 423612,67 5 Agri-environment 1853096,73 1853096,73 6 Less Favoured Areas –13412,76 –13412,76 7 Technical assistance 391805,87 391805,87 8 Obligations transferred from previous programming period 0,00 0,00 9 Allocations of resources for single area payments –45709,90 –45709,90 Total 2607932,10 0,00 2607932,10 No Measures Expenditure 2009 Annex I column a Reductions Annex I column d Amount cleared for 2009 Annex I column e i ii iii = i + ii 1 Agri-environment 3561291,02 3561291,02 2 Less Favoured Areas and areas with environmental restrictions –2954,63 –2954,63 3 Meeting standards –204331,89 –204331,89 4 Afforestation of agricultural land 30628,19 30628,19 5 Early retirement 104338,87 104338,87 6 Support for semi-subsistence farms undergoing restructuring –8179,78 –8179,78 7 Other measures 96659,66 96659,66 8 Technical assistance 455049,09 455049,09 9 Complementary national direct payments 1061,44 1061,44 Total 4033561,97 0,00 4033561,97 No Measures Expenditure 2009 Annex I column a Reductions Annex I column d Amount cleared for 2009 Annex I column e i ii iii = i + ii 1 Less Favoured Areas –5448,47 –5448,47 2 Agri-environment 1635984,94 1635984,94 3 Meeting standards 1098668,34 1098668,34 4 Producers Group 0,00 0,00 5 Technical assistance 865308,32 865308,32 6 State Aid Complement 0,00 0,00 7 Ad Hoc Full time Farmers/Breeders 1507607,63 1507607,63 Total 5102120,76 0,00 5102120,76 No Measures Expenditure 2009 Annex I column a Reductions Annex I column d Amount cleared for 2009 Annex I column e i ii iii = i + ii 1 Early retirement –115562,12 –115562,12 2 Support for semi-substance farms –782545,72 –782545,72 3 Less Favoured Areas –3314036,52 –3314036,52 4 Agri-environment undertakings and animal welfare –449096,77 –449096,77 5 Afforestation –68801,15 –68801,15 6 Meeting EU standards –2128574,31 –2128574,31 7 Producer Groups 0,00 0,00 8 Technical assistance 19304548,86 19304548,86 9 Complements to direct payments –80324,22 –80324,22 10 Projects approved under Reg. (EC) No 1268/1999 –3869,48 –3869,48 Total 12361738,57 0,00 12361738,57 No Measures Expenditure 2009 Annex I column a Reductions Annex I column d Amount cleared for 2009 Annex I column e i ii iii = i + ii 1 Investments in agricultural holdings 320353,71 320353,71 2 Training 8185,24 8185,24 3 Less Favoured Areas and areas with environmental restrictions 16450,87 16450,87 4 Meeting standards 405119,68 405119,68 5 Agri-environmental support 0,00 0,00 6 Improving processing and marketing of agricultural products 151516,81 151516,81 7 Forest management 0,00 0,00 8 Afforestation of agricultural land 126911,56 126911,56 9 Land consolidation 30933,37 30933,37 10 Diversification of agricultural activities 0,00 0,00 11 Support for semi-subsistence farms 248306,32 248306,32 12 Producer groups 1308323,39 1308323,39 13 Technical assistance including evaluation 4128723,81 4128723,81 14 Complements to direct payments 9051,97 9051,97 901 Investments in agricultural holdings, R. 1268/1999 0,00 0,00 905 Agri-environmental support — projects approved R. 1268/1999 594554,46 594554,46 907 Forest management — projects approved under R. 1268/1999 0,00 0,00 912 Producer groups — project approved under R. 1268/1999 0,00 0,00 Total 7348431,19 0,00 7348431,19

ANNEX III CLEARANCE OF THE PAYING AGENCIES’ ACCOUNTS FINANCIAL YEAR 2009 — 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 Estonia PRIA

Versions

1. 2010-04-30

Cited by

• Commission Decision of 30 November 2010 on the clearance of the accounts of the paying agency of Estonia concerning expenditure in the field of rural development measures financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) for the 2009 financial year (notified under document C(2010) 8275) (Only the Estonian text is authentic) (2010/729/EU) Decision · Grade B

  Commission Decision 2010/257/EU cleared, for the 2009 financial year, the accounts of all the paying agencies except for the Estonian paying agency PRIA.