Commission Regulation (EC) No 583/1999 of 17 March 1999 on the maximum amount of the Community's financial contribution to be paid to the Member States concerned in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 723/97
L 72/28 EN Official Journal of the European Communities 18. 3. 1999 COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 583/1999 of 17 March 1999 on the maximum amount of the Community’s financial contribution to be paid to the Member States concerned in accordance with Council Regulation (EC) No 723/97 THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES, Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community, Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 723/97 of 22 April 1997 on the implementation of Member States’ action programmes on control of EAGGF Guarantee Section expenditure (1), and in particular Article 4(2) thereof, Whereas the Fund Committee has been consulted; Whereas Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 723/97 provides that the Community shall contribute towards the costs incurred by Member States in implementing new action programmes, arising out of new Community obligations; whereas Article 4(2) of the same Regulation provides that consulting the Fund the Commission shall, after Committee, set the Community’s financial contribution having regard to the appropriations and on the basis of the information supplied by the Member States concerned; whereas the amount in question shall be granted in accordance with Article 3 of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1780/97 (2), the maximum annual amount of laying down the rules of application of Regulation (EC) No 723/97, as last amended by the Regulation (EC) No 1890/98 (3); the Member States concerned have supplied the relevant information to the Commission for the year 1999, that HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: Article 1 The maximum amount of the Community’s financial contribution towards the costs incurred by the Member States concerned in implementing action programmes on control of EAGGF Guarantee Section expenditure for 1999, provided for by Council Regulation (EC) No 723/97 is set out in the Annex of this Regulation. Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities. This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States. Done at Brussels, 17 March 1999. For the Commission Franz FISCHLER Member of the Commission (1) OJ L 108, 25. 4. 1997, p. 6. (2) OJ L 252, 16. 9. 1997, p. 20. (3) OJ L 245, 4. 9. 1998, p. 28. 18. 3. 1999 EN Official Journal of the European Communities L 72/29 ANNEX Maximum amount of the Community’s financial contribution for 1999, within the framework of Regulation (EC) No 723/97 Member States Community co-financing (1) Exchange rate (2) Community co-financing (3) National currency January 1999 Euro Belgium Germany Greece Spain France Ireland Italy Luxembourg Netherlands Portugal Austria Finland BEF 29 220 000 DEM 4 065 138 GRD 17 000 000 ESP 535 627 432 FRF 17 836 433 IEP 763 641 40,3399 1,95583 329,689 166,386 6,55957 0,787564 ITL 5 736 728 625 1936,27 LUF 7 168 000 NLG 331 619 PTE 294 517 958 ATS 2 336 500 FIM 1 830 500 40,3399 2,20371 200,482 13,7603 5,94573 724 345 2 078 472 51 564 3 219 186 2 719 147 969 624 2 962 773 177 690 150 482 1 469 049 169 800 307 868 Total — — 15 000 000