1999/327/EC: Commission Decision of 30 April 1999 on the clearance of the accounts of Member States' expenditure financed by the European Agricultural guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), Guarantee Section, for the 1998 financial year (notified under document number C(1999) 1175)
L 124/28 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 18. 5. 1999 COMMISSION DECISION of 30 April 1999 on the clearance of the accounts of Member States’ expenditure financed by the European Agricultural guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), Guarantee Section, for the 1998 financial year (notified under document number C(1999) 1175) (1999/327/EC) THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, EAGGF Guarantee Section (5), as amended by Regulation (EC) No 896/97 (6), have expired; Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 of 21 April 1970 on the financing of the common agricul- tural policy (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1287/95 (2), and in particular Article 5(2)(b) thereof, After consulting the Fund Committee, Whereas: (1) (2) (3) under Article 5(2)(b) of Regulation (EEC) No 729/ 70, the Commission, on the basis of the annual accounts submitted by the Member States, accom- panied by the information required for clearance and a certificate regarding the veracity, complete- ness, and accuracy of the accounts transmitted clears the accounts of the paying agencies referred to in Article 4(1) of that Regulation; with regard to Article 7(1) of Commission Regula- tion (EC) No 296/96 of 16 February 1996 on data to be forwarded by the Member States and the monthly booking of expenditure financed under the Guarantee Section of the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF) and repealing Regulation (EEC) No 2776/88 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2236/98 (4), account is taken for the 1998 financial year of expenditure States between 16 October 1997 and 15 October 1998; the Member incurred by the time limits granted to the Member States for the submission to the Commission of the docu- ments referred to in Article 5(1)(b) of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 and in Article 4(1), (3) and (4) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1663/95 of 7 July 1995 laying down detailed rules for the application of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 regarding the the procedure for the clearance of accounts of (4) (5) (6) the Commission has checked the information submitted and communicated to the Member States before the 31 March 1999 the results of its verifica- tions with the necessary amendments; to decisions under the first subparagraph of Article 7(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1663/75, the accounts clear- ance decision referred to in Article 5(2)(b) of Regu- lation (EEC) No 729/740 must determine, without prejudice taken subsequently in accordance with paragraph 21(c) of that Article, the amount of expenditure effected in each Member State during the financial year in question recog- nised as being chargeable to the EAGGF Guarantee Section, on the basis of the accounts referred to in Article 5(1)(b) of the abovementioned Regulation and the reductions and suspensions of advances for the financial year concerned, including the reduc- tions referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 4(3) of Regulation (EC) No 296/96; under Article 102 of the Financial Regulation of 21 December 1977, as last amended by Regulation (EC, ECSC, Euratom) No 2779/98 (7), the outcome of the clearance decision, that is to say, any discrep- ancy which may occur between the total expendi- ture booked to the accounts for a financial year pursuant to Articles 100 and 101 and that total the expenditure Commission in this Decision, is to be booked, under a single article, as additional expenditure or a reduction in expenditure; taken into consideration by for certain paying agencies, the annual accounts and the accompanying documents permit the Commssion to take a decision on the complete- ness, accounts submitted; whereas in the light of the verifications made some of the accounts do not fulfil this condi- expenditure tion and therefore part of accuracy and veracity of the the (1) OJ L 94, 28. 4. 1970, p. 13. (2) OJ L 125, 8. 6. 1995, p. 1. (3) OJ L 39, 17. 2. 1996, p. 5. (4) OJ L 281, 17. 10. 1998, p. 9. (5) OJ L 158, 8. 7. 1995, p. 6. (6) OJ L 128, 21. 5. 1997, p. 8. (7) OJ L 356, 31. 12. 1977, p. 1. 18. 5. 1999 EN Official Journal of the European Communities L 124/29 (7) (8) (9) concerned cannot be recognised as chargeable to the EAGGF Guarantee Section; whereas Annex I lists the amounts cleared for each paying agency; in the light of the verifications made, the informa- tion submitted by certain other paying agencies requires additional inquiries and their accounts therefore be cleared in this Decision; cannot whereas Annex II the paying agencies concerned; lists Article 4(2) of Regulation (EC) No 296/96, in liaison with Article 13 of Council Decision 94/ 729/EC of 31 October 1994 on budgetary disic- pline (1), lays down that advances against bookings are to reduced for expenditure effected by the Member States after the limits or deadlines laid down; whereas, however, pursuant to Article 4(3) of Regulation (EC) No 296/96, any overrun of dead- lines during September and October are to be taken into account in the accounts clearance decision except where noted before the last decision of the financial year relating to advances; whereas part of the expenditure claimed by certain Member States during the abovementioned period and for the measures for which the Commission did not accept any extenuating circumstances was effected after the limits reductions; whereas laid down; this Decision should therefore lay down the relevant reductions; whereas a decision will be taken at a later date, in accordance with Article 5(2)(c) of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70, definitively fixing the expendutre for which Community financing will not be granted regarding those reductions and any other expenditure which may be found to have been effected after the limits or deadlines laid down; the Commission, in accordance with Article 13 of Decision No 94/7296/EC and Article 4(2) of Regu- lation (EC) No 296/96, reduced or suspended a number of monthly advances on entry into the accounts of expenditure for the 1998 financial year and proceeds in this Decision to the reductions laid down in Article 4(3) opf the above Regulation; whereas, notwithstanding their clearance under this Decision, a decision will be taken at a later date on the expenditure concerned in accordance with Article 5(2)(c) Regulation (EEC) No 729/70; whereas, in the light of the above, to avoid any premature or even only temporary reimbursement of the amounts in question, they should not be recognised in this Decision, without prejudice to further examination according to Article 5(2)(c) of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70; (10) (11) the second subparagraph of Article 7(1) of Regula- tion (EC) No 1663/95, lays down that the amounts which are recoverable from, or payable to, each Member State in accordance with Annex III to this Decision are to be deducted from, or added to, advances against expenditure from the second month following that in which the accounts clear- ance decision is taken; subparagraph of in accordance with the final Article 5(2)(b) of Regulation (EEC) No 729/70 and Article 7(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1663/95, this Decision, adopted on the basis of accounting infor- mation, does not prejudice decisions taken subse- the Commission excluding from quently by Community financing expenditure not effected in accordance with Community rules, HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: Article 1 The accounts of the paying agencies of the Member States concerning expenditure financed by the EAGGF Guar- antee Secion in respect of the 1998 financial year are hereby cleared as shown in Annex I. Article 2 The accounts of the paying agencies of the Member States concerning expenditure financed by the EAGGF Guar- antee Section in respect of the 1998 financial year referred to in Annex II are disjoined from the present Decision and shall be the subject of a future decision. Article 3 The amounts which are recoverable from, or payable to, each Member State in accordance with the present clear- ance of accounts are determined in Annex III to the present Decision. Article 4 This Decision is addressed to the Member States. Done at Brussels, 30 April 1999. For the Commission Franz FISCHLER Member of the Commission (1) OJ L 347, 23. 12. 1998, p. 3. L 124/30 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 18. 5. 1999 ANNEX I CLEARANCE OF THE PAYING AGENCIES’ ACCOUNTS ü FINANCIAL YEAR 1998 List of paying agencies for which the accounts are cleared as follows Member State Paying agency B D EL E BIRB Ministerie van Landbouw ü DG3 Organisme payeur de la Région wallonne Betaalorgaan voor de Vlaamse Gemeenschap BLE Hamburg-Jonas Baden-Württemberg MLR Bayern StMELF Bayern StMLU Berlin SenWiTech Brandenburg MELF Bremen Hamburg Hessen HMILFN Mecklenburg-Vorpommern LM Nordrhein-Westfalen LfEJ Nordrhein-Westfalen LfA Nordrhein-Westfalen Rheinland Nordrhein-Westfalen Westfalen Rheinland-Pfalz MWVLW Saarland MUEV Sachsen Sachsen-Anhalt ML Schleswig-Holstein MELFF Schleswig-Holstein MNU Thüringen TLVwA GEDIDAGEP FEGA FROM Andalucía Aragón Asturias Baleares Canarias Castilla-La Mancha Castilla y León Cataluña Extremadura Galicia La Rioja Madrid Murcia B1-370 clearance Amounts cleared in national currency 23 418 055 735,00 11 175 715 784,00 34 471 981,00 15 206 542,00 1 836 608 396,94 1 156 094 596,39 593 126 542,85 1 494 779 698,95 11 876 977,61 3 672 672,86 602 723 587,48 2 408 780,53 6 285 856,78 337 324 017,49 744 906 099,96 19 972 955,06 3 359 485,25 169 634 527,53 495 340 518,35 237 913 283,85 25 870 603,98 555 417 624,64 662 857 742,87 477 590 806,90 2 556 263,93 468 160 624,07 – 42 661 663,00 819 044 466 862,00 130 341 442 014,00 29 819 310,00 274 571 609 932,00 61 280 456 086,00 6 092 784 035,00 2 777 136 484,00 21 099 492 462,00 112 108 746 381,00 110 505 962 370,00 43 883 860 923,00 72 934 326 000,00 11 304 785 113,00 3 774 399 971,00 6 443 033 339,00 7 618 677 410,00 18. 5. 1999 EN Official Journal of the European Communities L 124/31 Member State Paying agency Amounts cleared in national currency 15 721 619 620,00 5 234 836 037,00 20 250 655 556,00 B1-370 clearance – 24 384 738 761,00 Services déconcentrés du Trésor et services déconcentrés du ministère de l’agriculture, de la pêche et de l’alimentation B1-370 clearance B1-370 clearance – 523 508 596 612,00 F IRL I L NL Navarra País Vasco Valencia CNASEA FIOM FIRS ODEADOM ONIC ONIFLHOR ONILAIT ONIVINS SAV SIDO DAF DMNR AIMA DCCC ENR Ministère de l’agriculture DLG HPA LASER MVO PT PVE PVis PZ STOAS B1-370 clearance B1-370 clearance A AMA BMLF Abt. VI B 8 (Wein) ZA Salzburg Landesamt Tirol Landesamt Vorarlberg P FIN S INGA IFADAP MMM SJV 958 008 202,28 46 351 840,42 3 916 779 451,09 729 325 614,43 27 438 986 577,00 2 042 657 886,10 5 073 628 763,14 502 000 529,09 800 693 368,34 4 660 440 000,70 9 340 743 762,44 – 673 166 182,00 1 248 822 967,43 26 189 468,12 7 678 750 445 710,00 751 740 126 054,00 127 146 491 765,00 710 442 347,00 12 110 942,36 848 515 768,04 798 997 214,63 77 070,82 116 026 207,40 290 131 859,75 294 482,83 991 697 939,20 3 325 050,00 – 9 987 148,04 10 797 943 842,24 8 103 257,39 855 578 737,00 7 496 558,00 89 900 ,00 0,00 110 320 598 025,00 19 973 046 818,00 3 434 323 550,51 6 696 683 958,15 L 124/32 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 18. 5. 1999 Member State Paying agency UK CCW DANI FC IBEA MAFF SOAEFD WOAD Amounts cleared in national currency 1 513 705,33 161 905 508,85 9 846 782,16 713 331 520,45 1 488 965 120,37 359 636 401,13 175 557 278,56 The amount ‘B1-370 clearance' is mentioned only if it was not included in the declaration initially sent in by the Member State. 18. 5. 1999 EN Official Journal of the European Communities L 124/33 ANNEX II CLEARANCE OF THE PAYING AGENCIES’ ACCOUNTS ü FINANCIAL YEAR 1998 List of paying agencies for which the accounts are disjoined and are subject of a later clearance decision Member State Paying agency DK DE E F EU-Direktoratet Niedersachsen Cantabria OFIVAL ANNEX III CLEARANCE OF THE PAYING AGENCIES’ ACCOUNTS ü FINANCIAL YEAR 1998 Amount to be recovered from or paid to the Member State 1998 ü Expenditure for the paying agencies for which the accounts are cleared disjoined Member State expenditure declared in the annual declaration total of the expenditure in the monthly declarations Total a + b Reductions and suspensions for the whole financial year Total including reductions and suspensions Advances paid to the Member States for the financial year Amount to be recovered from (–) or paid to (+) the Member State a b c = a + b d e = c + d f g = e – f B DK D EL E F IRL I L NL A P FIN S UK 34 643 450 042,00 0,00 34 643 450 042,00 – 2 156 254,00 34 641 293 788,00 34 641 241 804,00 0,00 8 672 146 317,38 8 672 146 317,38 – 32 646,00 8 672 113 671,38 8 672 113 671,38 9 865 820 001,27 1 086 312 085,77 10 952 132 087,04 – 2 029,44 10 952 130 057,60 10 951 822 732,04 51 984,00 0,00 307 325,56 819 044 466 862,00 0,00 819 044 466 862,00 – 5 246 439 183,00 813 798 027 679,00 814 142 657 584,00 – 344 629 905,00 881 588 904 282,00 2 830 711 486,00 884 419 615 768,00 – 1 058 448,00 884 418 557 320,00 884 638 631 151,00 – 220 073 831,00 54 836 449 813,03 4 685 322 007,33 59 521 771 820,36 – 12 358 432,47 59 509 413 387,89 59 513 857 775,37 – 4 444 387,48 1 275 012 435,55 8 034 128 466 917,00 710 422 347,00 3 051 189 386,99 11 669 212 295,33 130 293 644 843,00 3 434 323 550,51 6 696 683 958,15 2 910 756 316,85 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 0,00 1 275 012 435,55 – 1 328 280,46 1 273 684 155,09 1 273 925 423,88 – 241 268,79 8 034 128 466 917,00 – 17 018 984 237,00 8 017 109 482 680,00 8 013 655 774 443,00 3 453 708 237,00 710 442 347,00 3 051 189 386,99 11 669 212 295,33 0,00 710 442 347,00 710 442 347,00 – 936 801,74 3 050 252 585,25 3 050 133 164,63 0,00 11 669 212 295,33 11 669 212 295,33 0,00 119 420,62 0,00 130 293 644 843,00 – 1 707 605 274,00 128 586 039 569,00 128 561 006 394,00 25 033 175,00 3 434 323 550,51 6 696 683 958,15 2 910 756 316,85 – 628 238,35 3 433 695 312,16 3 433 695 312,16 – 32 715,00 208 699,46 6 696 651 243,15 6 696 677 748,18 2 910 965 016,31 2 904 569 880,59 0,00 – 26 505,03 6 395 135,72 (1) For the calculation of the amount to be recovered from or paid to the Member State the amount taken into account is either the total of the annual declaration for the expenditure cleared (column a) or the total of the monthly declarations for the expenditure disjointed (column b). (2) The reductions and suspensions are those taken into account in the advance system, to which are added in particular the corrections for non-compliance with payment deadlines established in September and October 1998. L 1 2 4 / 3 4 E N O f f i c i a l J o u r n a l o f t h e E u r o p e a n C o m m u n i t i e s 1 8. 5. 1 9 9 9