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  "legislation_title": "Commission Decision of 27 January 2010 on a Union financial contribution to a programme for the control of organisms harmful to plants and plant products in the French overseas departments for 2010 (notified under document C(2010) 320) (Only the French text is authentic) (2010/52/EU)",
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  "text": "Commission Decision\nof 27 January 2010\non a Union financial contribution to a programme for the control of organisms harmful to plants and plant products in the French overseas departments for 2010\n(notified under document C(2010) 320)\n(Only the French text is authentic)\n(2010/52/EU)\nTHE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,\nHaving regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,\nHaving regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 247/2006 of 30 January 2006 laying down specific measures for agriculture in the outermost regions of the Union and in particular the first sentence of the first subparagraph of Article 17(3),\nWhereas:\n(1)\nCommission Decision 2007/609/EC of 10 September 2007 on the definition of the measures eligible for Community financing in the programmes for the control of organisms harmful to plants and plant products in the French overseas departments, in the Azores and in Madeira defines the measures eligible for an Union financial contribution in the programmes for the control of organisms harmful to plants and plant products in the French overseas departments, in the Azores and in Madeira.\n(2)\nThe French authorities have submitted to the Commission a programme for 2010 providing for plant health measures in the French overseas departments. That programme specifies the objectives to be achieved, the expected deliverables, the measures to be carried out, their duration and their cost with a view to a possible Union financial contribution. The measures provided for in that programme fulfill the requirements of Decision 2007/609/EC. The Commission therefore considers that the requirements of Article 17(1) of Regulation (EC) No 247/2006, have been met.\n(3)\nIn accordance with Article 3(2)(a) of Council Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 of 21 June 2005 on the financing of the common agricultural policy, the Union’s financial contributions to plant-health measures are to be financed from the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund. For the purposes of financial control of those measures Articles 9, 36 and 37 of that Regulation apply.\n(4)\nIn accordance with Article 75 of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 of 25 June 2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities and Article 90(1) of Commission Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 2342/2002 of 23 December 2002 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of Council Regulation (EC, Euratom) No 1605/2002 on the Financial Regulation applicable to the general budget of the European Communities, the commitment of expenditure from the Union budget shall be preceded by a financing decision adopted by the institution or the authorities to which powers have been delegated, setting out the essential elements of the action involving the expenditure.\n(5)\nThe present decision constitutes a financing decision for the expenditure provided in the co-financing requests presented by Member States.\n(6)\nThe measures provided for in this decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Standing Committee on Plant Health,\nHAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:",
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    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f1",
      "text": "OJ L 42, 14.2.2006, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f2",
      "text": "OJ L 242, 15.9.2007, p. 20."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f3",
      "text": "OJ L 209, 11.8.2005, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f4",
      "text": "OJ L 248, 16.9.2002, p. 1."
    },
    {
      "type": "footnote",
      "label": "f5",
      "text": "OJ L 357, 31.12.2002, p. 1."
    }
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