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Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2017/927 of 29 May 2017 on the clearance of the accounts of the paying agencies of Member States concerning expenditure financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) for the financial year 2016 (notified under document C(2017) 3597)

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Contents
  1. Preamble
    1. Article 1
    2. Article 2
    3. Article 3
    4. Article 4
  3. ANNEX
  4. ANNEX I CLEARANCE OF THE PAYING AGENCIES' ACCOUNTS Amount to be recovered from or paid to the Member State NB: Financial year 2016
  5. ANNEX II CLEARANCE OF THE PAYING AGENCIES' ACCOUNTS FINANCIAL YEAR 2016 — EAGF 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 Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 352/78, (EC) No 165/94, (EC) No 2799/98, (EC) No 814/2000, (EC) No 1290/2005 and (EC) No 485/2008, and in particular Article 51 thereof,

After consulting the Committee on the Agricultural Funds,

Whereas:

(1) Pursuant to Article 51 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013, the Commission, on the basis of the annual accounts submitted by the Member States, accompanied by the information required for the clearance of accounts and an audit opinion regarding the completeness, accuracy and veracity of the accounts and the reports established by the certification bodies, has to clear the accounts of the paying agencies referred to in Article 7 of that Regulation.

(2) In accordance with Article 39 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 the agricultural financial year begins on 16 October of year N – 1 and ends on 15 October of year N. When clearing the accounts for financial year 2016, account should be taken of expenditure incurred by the Member States between 16 October 2015 and 15 October 2016, as provided for in Article 11(1) of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 908/2014.

(3) The first subparagraph of Article 33(2) of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 908/2014 provides that the amounts that are recoverable from, or payable to, each Member State, in accordance with the accounts clearance decision referred to in Article 33(1) of that Regulation, are to be determined by deducting the monthly payments for the financial year in question, i.e. 2016, from expenditure recognised for that year in accordance with Article 33(1). The Commission is to deduct that amount from or add it to the monthly payment relating to the expenditure effected in the second month following the clearance of accounts decision.

(4) The Commission has checked the information submitted by the Member States and has communicated the results of its checks to the Member States before 30 April 2017, along with the necessary amendments.

(5) For certain paying agencies, the annual accounts and the accompanying documents permit the Commission to take a decision on the completeness, accuracy and veracity of the annual accounts submitted.

(6) The information submitted by certain other paying agencies requires additional inquiries and their accounts cannot therefore be cleared in this Decision.

(7) In accordance with Article 5(5) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 907/2014, any overrun of deadlines during August, September and October is to be taken into account in the clearance of accounts decision. Some of the expenditure declared by certain Member States during these months in 2016 was effected after the applicable deadlines. This Decision should therefore fix the relevant reductions.

(8) Pursuant to Article 41 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013, the Commission has already reduced or suspended a number of monthly payments for financial year 2016 due to failure to comply with financial ceilings or payment deadlines, or due to control system deficiencies. In adopting this Decision, the Commission should take into account the amounts reduced or suspended in order to avoid making all inappropriate, or untimely, payments or reimbursing amounts which could later be subject to financial correction. The amounts in question may be further examined, where appropriate, under conformity clearance proceedings pursuant to Article 52 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013.

(9) Article 54(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 requires Member States to attach to the annual accounts that they have to submit to the Commission pursuant to Article 29 of Implementing Regulation (EU) No 908/2014, a certified table reflecting the amounts to be borne by them under Article 54(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013. Rules on the application of the Member States' obligation to report the amounts to be recovered are laid down in Implementing Regulation (EU) No 908/2014. Annex II to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 908/2014 sets out the model of the table that Member States have to use to provide information about amounts to be recovered. On the basis of the tables completed by the Member States, the Commission should decide on the financial consequences of non-recovery of irregularities older than 4 or 8 years respectively.

(10) Pursuant to Article 54(3) of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013, on duly justified grounds, Member States may decide not to pursue recovery. Such a decision may be taken only if the costs already, and likely to be, incurred total more than the amount to be recovered or if the recovery proves impossible owing to the insolvency, recorded and recognised under national law, of the debtor or the persons legally responsible for the irregularity. If the decision has been taken within 4 years of the primary administrative or judicial finding or within 8 years where the recovery is taken to the national courts, 100 % of the financial consequences of the non-recovery should be borne by the Union budget. The amounts for which the Member State decided not to pursue recovery and the grounds for the decision are shown in the summary report referred to in Article 54(4) in conjunction with point (c)(iv) of Article 102(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013. Therefore, such amounts should not be charged to the Member States concerned and are consequently borne by the Union budget.

(11) In accordance with Article 51 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013, this Decision is without prejudice to the decisions the Commission may take subsequently to exclude from Union financing expenditure not effected in accordance with Union rules,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

With the exception of the paying agencies referred to in Article 2, the accounts of the Member States' paying agencies concerning expenditure financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) in respect of financial year 2016, are hereby cleared. The amounts recoverable from, or payable to, each Member State pursuant to this Decision, including those resulting from the application of Article 54(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013, are set out in Annex I to this Decision.

Article 2

For financial year 2016, the accounts of the Member States' paying agencies in respect of expenditure financed by the EAGF, as set out in Annex II, are not covered by this Decision and shall be the subject of a future clearance of accounts decision.

Article 3

This Decision is without prejudice to future conformity clearance decisions that the Commission may take pursuant to Article 52 of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 to exclude from Union financing expenditure not effected in accordance with Union rules.

Article 4

This Decision is addressed to the Member States.

Done at Brussels, 29 May 2017. For the Commission Phil Hogan Member of the Commission

ANNEX

ANNEX I CLEARANCE OF THE PAYING AGENCIES' ACCOUNTS Amount to be recovered from or paid to the Member State NB: Financial year 2016

Nomenclature 2017: 05 07 01 06, 6701, 6702 MS 2016 — Expenditure/Assigned Revenue for the Paying Agencies for which the accounts are Total a + b Reductions and suspensions for the whole financial year Reductions according to Article 54(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 Total including reductions and suspensions Payments made to the Member State for the financial year Amount to be recovered from (–) or paid to (+) the Member State cleared disjoined = expenditure/assigned revenue declared in the annual declaration = total of the expenditure/assigned revenue in the monthly declarations a b c = a + b d e f = c + d + e g h = f – g BE EUR 565800293,40 0,00 565800293,40 – 24418,01 – 241052,67 565534822,72 565786088,68 – 251265,96 BG EUR 0,00 729203377,20 729203377,20 0,00 0,00 729203377,20 729203377,20 0,00 CZ EUR 851003406,06 0,00 851003406,06 0,00 0,00 851003406,06 851003406,14 – 0,08 DK DKK 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 DK EUR 0,00 851273384,99 851273384,99 0,00 0,00 851273384,99 851273384,99 0,00 DE EUR 4813842919,23 0,00 4813842919,23 – 22007,53 – 41980,97 4813778930,73 4813605081,67 173849,06 EE EUR 119781045,31 0,00 119781045,31 – 3127,00 – 225,29 119777693,02 119682495,57 95197,45 IE EUR 1100232600,17 0,00 1100232600,17 – 233504,29 – 92736,80 1099906359,08 1098961539,18 944819,90 EL EUR 1931266283,90 0,00 1931266283,90 – 80233,91 – 2219058,01 1928966991,98 1931251959,99 – 2284968,01 ES EUR 5498388535,84 0,00 5498388535,84 – 6642128,99 – 953901,10 5490792505,75 5494559517,54 – 3767011,79 FR EUR 6638739575,44 427190631,87 7065930207,31 – 175963214,64 – 318659,21 6889648333,46 6892176940,56 – 2528607,10 HR EUR 189069655,09 0,00 189069655,09 – 112,27 0,00 189069542,82 189070148,92 – 606,10 IT EUR 2052605403,60 2253934649,51 4306540053,11 – 642279,82 – 520250,83 4305377522,46 4306115729,35 – 738206,89 CY EUR 0,00 56313396,90 56313396,90 0,00 0,00 56313396,90 56313396,90 0,00 LV EUR 189060513,30 0,00 189060513,30 0,00 – 540,85 189059972,45 189060513,30 – 540,85 LT EUR 438683340,62 0,00 438683340,62 – 21771,92 – 398,01 438661170,69 433978994,41 4682176,28 LU EUR 28963594,31 0,00 28963594,31 0,00 0,00 28963594,31 28924603,27 38991,04 HU HUF 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 – 70659646,00 – 70659646,00 0,00 – 70659646,00 HU EUR 1317869300,83 0,00 1317869300,83 – 978373,92 0,00 1316890926,91 1317033374,15 – 142447,24 MT EUR 0,00 5317207,05 5317207,05 0,00 0,00 5317207,05 5317207,05 0,00 NL EUR 618414657,81 0,00 618414657,81 – 501741,06 0,00 617912916,75 617804156,39 108760,36 AT EUR 675728274,74 560013,80 676288288,54 – 483,40 – 2,64 676287802,50 676287805,14 – 2,64 PL PLN 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 – 463339,83 – 463339,83 0,00 – 463339,83 PL EUR 3439186934,69 0,00 3439186934,69 – 11137793,39 0,00 3428049141,30 3426576470,41 1472670,89 PT EUR 668951357,46 0,00 668951357,46 – 667959,08 – 824107,43 667459290,95 667469761,97 – 10471,02 RO RON 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 – 4962,73 – 4962,73 0,00 – 4962,73 RO EUR 1510255741,41 0,00 1510255741,41 – 487680,90 0,00 1509768060,51 1509929433,56 – 161373,05 SI EUR 140789748,39 0,00 140789748,39 0,00 – 472,11 140789276,28 140691157,45 98118,83 SK EUR 430776343,03 0,00 430776343,03 – 21043,51 0,00 430755299,52 430774523,45 – 19223,93 FI EUR 537722597,80 0,00 537722597,80 – 11610,57 – 19035,45 537691951,78 537710991,08 – 19039,30 SE SEK 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 – 985583,95 – 985583,95 0,00 – 985583,95 SE EUR 677120048,81 0,00 677120048,81 – 12921,93 0,00 677107126,88 677107126,88 0,00 UK GBP 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 – 80816,20 – 80816,20 0,00 – 80816,20 UK EUR 2949537751,98 0,00 2949537751,98 0,00 0,00 2949537751,98 2951631697,28 – 2093945,30 MS Expenditure Assigned revenue Article 54(2) (= e) Total (= h) 05 07 01 06 6701 6702 i j k l = i + j + k BE EUR 0,00 – 10213,29 – 241052,67 – 251265,96 BG EUR 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 CZ EUR 0,00 – 0,08 0,00 – 0,08 DK DKK 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 DK EUR 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 DE EUR 215830,03 0,00 – 41980,97 173849,06 EE EUR 95422,74 0,00 – 225,29 95197,45 IE EUR 1037556,70 0,00 – 92736,80 944819,90 EL EUR 0,00 – 65910,00 – 2219058,01 – 2284968,01 ES EUR 0,00 – 2813110,69 – 953901,10 – 3767011,79 FR EUR 0,00 – 2209947,89 – 318659,21 – 2528607,10 HR EUR 0,00 – 606,10 0,00 – 606,10 IT EUR 0,00 – 217956,06 – 520250,83 – 738206,89 CY EUR 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 LV EUR 0,00 0,00 – 540,85 – 540,85 LT EUR 4682574,29 0,00 – 398,01 4682176,28 LU EUR 38991,04 0,00 0,00 38991,04 HU HUF 0,00 0,00 – 70659646,00 – 70659646,00 HU EUR 0,00 – 142447,24 0,00 – 142447,24 MT EUR 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 NL EUR 108760,36 0,00 0,00 108760,36 AT EUR 0,00 0,00 – 2,64 – 2,64 PL PLN 0,00 0,00 – 463339,83 – 463339,83 PL EUR 1472670,89 0,00 0,00 1472670,89 PT EUR 813636,41 0,00 – 824107,43 – 10471,02 RO RON 0,00 0,00 – 4962,73 – 4962,73 RO EUR 0,00 – 161373,05 0,00 – 161373,05 SI EUR 98590,94 0,00 – 472,11 98118,83 SK EUR 0,00 – 19223,93 0,00 – 19223,93 FI EUR 0,00 – 3,85 – 19035,45 – 19039,30 SE SEK 0,00 0,00 – 985583,95 – 985583,95 SE EUR 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 UK GBP 0,00 0,00 – 80816,20 – 80816,20 UK EUR 0,00 – 2093945,30 0,00 – 2093945,30

ANNEX II CLEARANCE OF THE PAYING AGENCIES' ACCOUNTS FINANCIAL YEAR 2016 — EAGF List of the Paying Agencies for which the accounts are disjoined and are subject of a later clearance decision

Member State Paying Agency Austria Zollamt Salzburg Bulgaria State Fund Agriculture Cyprus Cyprus Agricultural Payments Organization Denmark Danish AgriFish Agency France FranceAgriMer Italy Agenzia per le Erogazioni in Agricoltura Malta Agriculture and Rural Payments Agency

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