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Commission Regulation (EC) No 153/2006 of 27 January 2006 amending Regulation (EC) No 1819/2005 adopting a plan allocating resources to the Member States to be charged against 2006 budget year for the supply of food from intervention stocks for the benefit of the most deprived persons in the Community

EU Regulation No 153/2006 · Adopted 27 January 2006 · Extends to United Kingdom

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Commission Regulation (EC) No 153/2006

of 27 January 2006

amending Regulation (EC) No 1819/2005 adopting a plan allocating resources to the Member States to be charged against 2006 budget year for the supply of food from intervention stocks for the benefit of the most deprived persons in the Community

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3730/87 of 10 December 1987 laying down the general rules for the supply of food from intervention stocks to designated organisations for distribution to the most deprived persons in the Communityf1, and in particular Article 6 thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2799/98 of 15 December 1998 establishing agrimonetary arrangements for the eurof2, and in particular Article 3(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

In accordance with Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92 of 29 October 1992 laying down detailed rules for the supply of food from intervention stocks for the benefit of the most deprived persons in the Communityf3, Commission Regulation (EC) No 1819/2005f4 adopted the distribution plan to be financed from resources available in the 2006 budget year. The plan lays down in particular, for each of the Member States applying the measure, the maximum financial resources available to carry out its part of the plan, the quantity of each type of product to be withdrawn from the stocks held by the intervention agencies, and the grants for purchase of certain products on the market.

(2)

To take into account the specific necessities of Greece, the annual plan 2006 should be amended to authorise the withdrawal of rice in payment for cereals and cereal based products, in accordance with the fourth subparagraph of Article 4(1)(b) of Regulation (EEC) No 3149/92. Therefore the quantity of rice initially allocated to Greece, as set in Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1819/2005, should be adapted accordingly.

(3)

Regulation (EC) No 1819/2005 should therefore be amended accordingly.

(4)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinions of all the relevant management committees,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Annotations to the whole text

Footnotes

f1

OJ L 352, 15.12.1987, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation (EC) No 2535/95 (OJ L 260, 31.10.1995, p. 3).

f2

OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 1.

f3

OJ L 313, 30.10.1992, p. 50. Regulation as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 133/2006 (OJ L 23, 27.1.2006, p. 11).

f4

OJ L 293, 9.11.2005, p. 3.

Contents

  1. 1Article 1
  2. 2Article 2
  3. Signature
  4. Annex IAnnex I
  5. Annex IIAnnex II

1

Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 1819/2005 is amended as follows:

  1. 1..

    part (b) is replaced by the text set out in Annex I to this Regulation;

  2. 2..

    the text set out in Annex II to this Regulation is added as part (c).

2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Signature

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 27 January 2006.

For the Commission

Mariann Fischer Boel

Member of the Commission

Annex I

‘b)

Quantity of each type of product to be withdrawn from Community intervention stocks for distribution in each Member State subject to the maximum amounts laid down in (a):

(tonnes)
Member StateCerealsRice (paddy rice)ButterSugar
Belgium12 1212 800450
Greece7 500
Spain73 72628 00013 5602 000
France75 85155 00010 564
Ireland120
Italy115 25320 0006 8333 500
Latvia19 706
Lithuania16 0005 000
Hungary63 587
Malta1 877600
Poland85 60820 0007 2304 847
Portugal17 28714 0002 7431 700
Slovenia1 262600300
Finland18 500500
Total500 778153 50041 50012 847

’

Annex II

‘(c)

Quantities of rice authorized for removal from intervention stocks to pay for the supply of cereals or cereals products mobilised on the market, subject to the maximum amounts laid down in (a):

Member StateTonnes
Greece7 500

’