Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2015/447 of 17 March 2015 on the division between deliveries and direct sales of national milk quotas fixed for 2014/2015 in Annex IX to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007
Grade B
mapped from publisher markup. A grade says how a document's structure was obtained, not how reliable the law is.
Address https://gelex.eu/eli/EU/regulation/2015/447@2015-03-17/en
THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 of 22 October 2007 establishing a common organisation of agricultural markets and on specific provisions for certain agricultural products (Single CMO Regulation), and in particular Article 69(1) in conjunction with Article 4 thereof,
Whereas:
(1) Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council has repealed and replaced Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as from 1 January 2014. However, Article 230(1)(a) of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 provides that, as regards the system of milk production limitation, Section III of Chapter III of Title I of Part II of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 as well as Article 55, Article 85 thereof and Annexes IX and X thereto continue to apply until 31 March 2015.
(2) Article 67(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 provides that producers may have one or two individual quotas, one for deliveries and the other for direct sales and that quantities may be converted from one quota to the other only by the competent authority of the Member State, at the duly justified request of the producer.
(3) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 266/2014 sets out the division between deliveries and direct sales for the period from 1 April 2013 to 31 March 2014 for all Member States.
(4) In accordance with Article 25(2) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 595/2004, Member States have notified to the Commission the quantities which have been definitively converted at the request of the producers between individual quotas for deliveries and for direct sales.
(5) It is therefore appropriate to establish the division between deliveries and direct sales of the national quotas applicable for the period from 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2015 fixed in point 1 of Annex IX to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007.
(6) Pursuant to Article 69(1) in conjunction with Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007, the Commission had to act in accordance with the procedure referred to in Article 195(2) of that Regulation. The corresponding procedure under Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 is the examination procedure referred to in Article 229(2) of that Regulation.
(7) Given the fact that the division between direct sales and deliveries is used as a reference basis for controls pursuant to Articles 19 to 22 of Regulation (EC) No 595/2004 and for the establishment of the annual questionnaire set out in Annex I to that Regulation, it is appropriate to determine a date of expiry of this Regulation after the last possible date for those controls.
(8) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for the Common Organisation of Agricultural Markets,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:
Article 1
The division, applicable for the period from 1 April 2014 to 31 March 2015, between deliveries and direct sales of the national quotas fixed in Annex IX to Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 is set out in the Annex to this Regulation.
Article 2
This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union. It shall expire on 30 September 2016.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 17 March 2015. For the Commission The President Jean-Claude Juncker
ANNEX
ANNEX
Member States Deliveries (tonnes) Direct sales (tonnes) Belgium 3566075,994 36038,916 Bulgaria 981934,239 67583,377 Czech Republic 2910127,559 25017,298 Denmark 4847759,582 149,891 Germany 30229156,242 89772,508 Estonia 687975,699 4950,350 Ireland 5782858,891 1563,345 Greece 878297,757 1317,000 Spain 6491200,263 66355,182 France 26043679,756 327551,521 Croatia 698376,994 66623,006 Italy 10921420,936 367121,930 Cyprus 155022,240 636,552 Latvia 770138,701 10993,997 Lithuania 1753855,868 73783,113 Luxembourg 292166,310 588,000 Hungary 1967795,932 165608,590 Malta 52205,729 0,000 Netherlands 11972757,363 77735,292 Austria 2911286,952 81441,536 Poland 9923889,074 131907,982 Portugal 2080193,719 8710,827 Romania 1571952,247 1705244,231 Slovenia 597453,865 20719,515 Slovakia 1075927,489 39828,732 Finland 2615170,922 4657,981 Sweden 3589229,658 4800,000 United Kingdom 15755730,218 140974,348