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Article 3

United Kingdom

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Regulation (EC) No 1268/1999 is hereby amended as follows:

  1. 1..

    paragraph 1 of Article 1 shall be replaced by the following:

    ‘1.

    This Regulation establishes the framework for Community support for sustainable agriculture and sustainable rural development for the pre-accession period for Bulgaria, Croatia and Romania. The Regulation shall also remain applicable for the finalisation of any of the programmes started under it in the Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia prior to their accession to the European Union.’;

  2. 2..

    at the end of Article 4(2) the following subparagraph shall be added:

    ‘By way of derogation from the first subparagraph, for Croatia the plan shall, under the same conditions as stipulated in the first subparagraph, cover a period of up to two years from the year 2005.’;

  3. 3..

    at the end of Article 5(1) the following sentence shall be added:

    ‘However, with regard to Croatia, the respective programme shall not be subject to a mid-term appraisal.’;

  4. 4..

    Article 7 shall be amended as follows:

    1. (a)

      paragraph 1 shall be replaced by the following:

      ‘1.

      Community assistance under this Regulation shall be granted during the period from 2000 to 2006, with the exception of Community assistance for Croatia which shall be granted during the period from 2005 to 2006. The annual appropriations shall be authorised by the budgetary authority within the limits of the financial perspective.’;

    2. (b)

      at the end of paragraph 3 the following subparagraph shall be added:

      ‘However, for Croatia the annual financial allocation shall be fixed separately.’;

  5. 5..

    Article 11 shall be replaced by the following:

    ‘Article 11

    The Commission shall allocate the available resources to the applicant countries for the implementation of Article 7(2). Within three months of the decision to make a country eligible for assistance under this Regulation, the Commission shall communicate its decision on the indicative financial allocation for the ongoing financial perspective to that applicant country.’.