# Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/288 of 19 February 2018 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 367/2014 setting the net balance available for EAGF expenditure EU Regulation 2018/288 · adopted 19 February 2018 Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/288 of 19 February 2018 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 367/2014 setting the net balance available for EAGF expenditure ## Introductory text Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/288 of 19 February 2018 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 367/2014 setting the net balance available for EAGF expenditure 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 16(2) thereof, Whereas: (1) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 367/2014 sets the net balance available for European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) expenditure, as well as the amounts available for the budget years 2014 to 2020 for the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), pursuant to Article 10c(2) and Articles 136, 136a and 136b of Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 and to Article 7(2), Article 14 and Article 66(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council. (2) In accordance with the fourth subparagraph of Article 14(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013, France, Lithuania and the Netherlands notified the Commission by 1 August 2017 of their decision to review, for the calendar years 2018 and 2019, their previous decision to transfer a certain percentage of their annual national ceilings of direct payments to rural development programming financed under the EAFRD as specified in Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council. The relevant national ceilings were adapted through Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/162. (3) In accordance with Article 3(1) of Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1311/2013, the sub-ceiling for market related expenditure and direct payments of the multiannual financial framework set out in Annex I to that Regulation is to be adjusted under the technical adjustment provided for in Article 6(1) of that Regulation following the transfers between the EAFRD and direct payments. (4) As a result of those changes, it is necessary to adjust the net balance available for EAGF as set by Implementing Regulation (EU) No 367/2014. For the sake of clarity, the amounts to be made available to the EAFRD should be also published. (5) Implementing Regulation (EU) No 367/2014 should therefore be amended accordingly, HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: ## 1 The Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 367/2014 is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Regulation. ## 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh 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, 19 February 2018. For the Commission The President Jean-Claude Juncker ## ‘ANNEX (EUR million — current prices) Budget year Amounts made available to EAFRD Amounts transferred from EAFRD Net balance available for EAGF expenditure Article 10b of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 Article 136 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 Article 136b of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 Article 66 of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 Article 136a(1) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 and Article 14(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 Article 7(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 Article 136a(2) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 and Article 14(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 2014 296,300 51,600 4,000 43 778,1 2015 51,600 4,000 621,999 499,384 44 189,785 2016 4,000 1 138,146 108,659 573,047 43 950,242 2017 4,000 1 174,732 111,026 572,440 44 145,682 2018 4,000 1 184,257 110,213 571,820 44 162,35 2019 4,000 1 491,459 111,358 571,158 43 880,341 2020 4,000 1 507,843 112,041 570,356 43 887,472 ’ --- Source: https://www.legislation.gov.uk/eur/2018/288 (the official version) Page: https://openlegislation.uk/eu-regulation-2018-288 Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Source: legislation.gov.uk, The National Archives.