Proposal for a Council Regulation amending Regulation (EEC) No 3508/92 establishing an integrated administration and control system for certain Community aid schemes
C 89 E/8 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 28. 3. 2000 Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) amending Regulation (EEC) No 3508/92 establishing an integrated administration and control system for certain Community aid schemes (2000/C 89 E/04) COM(1999) 517 final - 1999/0207(CNS) (Submitted by the Commission on 15 November 1999) THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, and in particular Article 37 thereof, Having regard to the proposal from the Commission, largely been completed, (5) Now that the introductory phase of the integrated system has the Commission should continue to be kept informed about the implementation and effectiveness of the integrated system in the Member States; HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament, Regulation (EEC) No 3508/92 is amended as follows: Whereas: 1. Article 1 is amended as follows: (a) Paragraphs 1 and 2 are replaced by the following: (1) The decisions on the reform of the common agricultural policy require adjustments to be made to the integrated administration and control system. (2) The application of the integrated management and control system in those areas to which it applies has led to significant progress in reducing the risk to the EAGGF Guarantee Section from agricultural expenditure. It should be laid down that the Member States are to design their own systems, compatible with the essential elements of for the application of other Community area aid IACS, schemes. The Commission should be allowed to extend the integrated system to other Community schemes; (3) In view of the difficulties encountered when carrying out administrative checks on areas declared, and in particular the costs and time involved in clearing up anomalies in declarations, experience in a number of Member States identification system which have created a special parcel and progress in digital orthophotography and geographical information systems, the introduction of computerised geographical information system techniques for the identi- fication of agricultural parcels should be foreseen; (EEC) No 3508/92 (1) (4) Since the measures for the implementation of Council are management Regulation measures within the meaning of Article 2 of Council Decision 1999/468/EC of 28 June 1999 laying down the procedures implementing powers conferred on the Commission (2), they should be adopted by use of the management procedure provided for in Article 4 of that Decision. Regulation (EEC) No 3508/92 should therefore be amended accordingly; the exercise of for (1) OJ L 355, 5. 12. 1992, p. 1. (2) OJ L 184, 17. 7. 1999, p. 23. Each Member State shall set up an integrated hereinafter 1. administration referred to as the ôintegrated systemö, applying: system, control and (a) in the crop sector: (i) to the support system for producers of certain arable crops established by Council Regulation (EC) No 1251/1999 (3), (ii) to the aid scheme for rice producers estab- lished by Article 6 of Council Regulation (EC) No 3072/95 (4), (iii) to the specific measure in respect of certain grain legumes introduced by Council Regu- lation (EC) No 1577/96 (5), (b) in the livestock sector (i) to the premium and payment arrangements for beef and veal producers established by Chapter 1 of Title I of Council Regulation (EC) No 1254/1999 (6), (ii) to the premium arrangements for sheepmeat by and introduced Council Regulation (EC) No 2467/98 (7), producers goatmeat (3) OJ L 160, 26. 6. 1999, p. 1. (4) OJ L 329, 30. 12. 1995, p. 18. (5) OJ L 206, 16. 8. 1996, p. 4. (6) OJ L 160, 26. 6. 1999, p. 21. (7) OJ L 312, 20. 11. 1998, p. 1. 28. 3. 2000 EN Official Journal of the European Communities C 89 E/9 (iii) to direct payments under Article 19 of Council (b) Paragraph 3 is replaced by the following: Regulation (EC) No 1255/1999 (1) hereinafter referred to as Community schemesö. The Commission may, 2. in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 12a(2), extend the inte- grated system to other Community aid schemes and, consequently, align the corresponding provisions of the rules concerned. í (b) Paragraph 3 is deleted. (c) Paragraph 4 becomes paragraph 3. 2. In Article 2 letters (b) and (c) are replaced by the following: 3. Member State may decide that an area aid application need contain only changes with respect to the area aid application submitted the previous year. Member States shall simplify the application process by distributing pre-printed forms based on the areas determined in the previous year and supplying graphic material indicating the location of those areas. í (c) Paragraph 4 is replaced by the following:: Certain amendments may be made to the area 4. aid application provided that they are received by the competent authorities no later than the date laid down for sowing in Council Regulation (EC) No 1251/1999. í á(b) an identification system for agricultural parcels, (d) Paragraph 6 is replaced by the following: (c) a system for the identification and registration of animals,í For each of 6. the agricultural parcels declared, farmers shall indicate the area and its location, which information must enable the parcel to be identified in the identification system for agricultural parcels. í 3. Article 4 is replaced by the following: Article 4 An identification system for agricultural parcels shall be land registry established on the basis of maps or documents or other cartographic references. Use shall be made of computerised geographical information system techniques including aerial or spatial orthoimagery, with an homogenous standard guaranteeing accuracy at least equivalent to cartography at a scale of 1:10 000. í 5. The following Article 9a is inserted: Article 9a For the purposes of 1. applying Community aid schemes not referred to in Article 1, the Member States shall ensure that the administration and control systems applied to them are compatible with the integrated admin- istration and control system in the following respects: 4. Article 6 is amended as follows: (i) the computerised data base, (a) Paragraph 2 is replaced by the following: (ii) the parcel and animal identification systems, 2. The area aid application shall be submitted by a date to be fixed by the Member State which shall not submission of be after applications in Council Regulation (EC) No 1251/1999. laid down for that the In all cases, the date shall be set bearing in mind, inter alia, the period required for all relevant data to be available for the proper administrative and financial management of the aid and for the checks provided for in Article 8 to be carried out. Notwithstanding Article 5(1) of Council Regulation (EEC, Euratom) No 1182/71 of 3 June 1971 deter- mining the rules applicable to periods, dates and time limits (2), where the submission date is a public holiday, a Saturday or a Sunday, it shall be deemed to fall on the first working day following. í (iii) administrative checks, Where aids other than area aids are provided for, the Member States may incorporate in their administration and control procedure one or more administrative, technical or data-processing components of the integrated system. the schemes The specific provisions laid down under referred to in the first and second subparagraph, in particular those concerning the terms on which aid may be granted, shall not be affected by this Regulation. 2. Member States may extend the possibility provided for in the second subparagraph of paragraph 1 to national schemes. (1) OJ L 160, 26. 6. 1999, p. 48. (2) OJ L 124, 8. 6. 1971, p. 1. They may use the information from the integrated system for statistical purposes. C 89 E/10 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 28. 3. 2000 3. Member States shall inform the Commission if they avail referred to in themselves of paragraphs 1 and 2. the possibilities The Commission shall ensure that recourse to these possi- bilities does not prejudice compliance with the sectored Regulations or this Regulation. í 6. Article 10 is deleted. 7. Article 11(1) is replaced by the following: the 2. Where reference is made to this paragraph, management procedure laid down in Article 4 of Decision 1999/468/EC shall apply in compliance with Article 7(3) thereof. The period provided for in Article 4(3) of Decision 3. 1999/468/EC shall be one month. The Committee may examine any matter raised by its 4. Chairman, either on his own initiative or at the request of a Member State. í The Commission shall be regularly informed on the 1. application of the integrated system. 10. In Article 13(1), the following letters (c) and (d) are added: It shall organise exchanges of views on this subject with the Member States. í á(c) from 1 January 2003 as regards the geographical part of the parcel identification system; 8. Article 12 is amended as follows: (a) The first sentence is replaced by the following: (d) from 1 January 2001 as regards the compatibility of the administration and control systems with the inte- grated system as foreseen in Article 9a. í The Commission shall adopt detailed rules for the application of this Regulation in accordance with the procedure laid down in Article 12a(2). í (b) Letter (a) is replaced by the following: Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. á(a) the basic features of the identification system for agricultural parcels;í. It shall apply to applications submitted in respect of marketing years or premium periods starting on or after 1 January 2000. 9. After Article 12 the following Article 12a is inserted: Article 12a For the purpose of implementing this Regulation, the 1. Commission shall be assisted by the Fund Committee established by Article 11 of Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999 (hereinafter referred to as ôthe Committeeö). The Commission shall, where appropriate, adopt provisions under the procedure laid down in Article 12a(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3508/92 to facilitate the transition from the provisions of that Regulation to those laid down by this Regu- lation. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States