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PURPOSE: to amend Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 on support\n for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development\n (EAFRD) in order to align it with the Lisbon Treaty and to implement a number\n simplification proposals as part of the simplification exercise of the CAP.
PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council
BACKGROUND: Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 confers powers on\n the Commission in order to implement some of the provisions of that\n Regulation. As a consequence of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty,\n the powers conferred under Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 upon the Commission\n need to be aligned to Articles 290 (delegated acts) and 291 (implementing\n acts) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).
IMPACT ASSESSMENT: no impact assessment was carried out.
LEGAL BASE: Article 43 of the TFEU.
CONTENT: this proposal aims to identify the delegated and\n implementing powers of the Commission in Council Regulation (EC) No\n 1698/2005 and establish the corresponding procedure for adoption of these\n acts.
Pursuant to Article 290 of the Treaty,\n the proposal allows the Commission to adopt delegated acts in order\n to:
The Commission shall fix detailed control rules and adopt specific\n transitional measures.
In accordance with Article 291 of the Treaty Member States are responsible for implementing the regime\n established by the Legislator. However, it seems necessary to ensure uniform\n implementation of the scheme in Member States in order to avoid\n distortions of competition or discrimination between operators. Therefore,\n the Legislator gives the Commission powers of enforcement as regards:
Additionally, some elements of simplification are introduced:
Reduction of the number of summary reports and simplification of\n their content under strategic monitoring: as part\n of the simplification exercise of the CAP Member States wanted a reduction in\n the number of reports to the Commission. In addition to annual progress\n reports, Member States are required to submit to the Commission summary\n reports setting out the progress made in implementing their national strategy\n plans and objectives and their contribution to the achievement of the\n Community strategic guidelines. Under the current rules, these summary\n reports are to be submitted each second year, starting from 2010 and ending\n in 2014, i.e. altogether three reports. The proposal will limit the number of\n reports to two, the first one to be submitted in 2010 and the second one in\n 2015, the former in the context of mid-term evaluation and the latter of ex\n post evaluation.
In addition, the report is required to summarise the previous\n year's annual progress reports. This requirement should be dropped, as it\n duplicates work. The number of Commission reports summarising the main\n developments, trends and challenges relating to the implementation of the\n national strategy plans and the Community strategic guidelines will bw\n reduced to two, one in 2011 and the second one in 2016.
Extension of the coverage of the measure for producer groups: the current provision on support for producer groups, which is\n already available for all sectors in the new Member States, should be\n extended to also cover EU-15. However, there will be support for producer\n groups in the fruit and vegetable sector as their activities may be supported\n under the single CMO.
Facilitating more tailor-made use of the advisory services: Member States had proposed changing the\n rules for use of advisory services. Currently the rules require that, as a\n minimum, the advisory service to farmers should cover the statutory\n management requirements and the good agricultural and environmental\n conditions under cross-compliance as well as the occupational safety\n standards based on Union legislation.
In order to facilitate more tailor-made use of the advisory\n services and to reflect the individual needs of the beneficiary, the advisory\n service provided will not need to cover all the aspects listed, but one or\n more of them.
Continuous linear features and stepping stones: according to Article 10 of the Habitats\n Directive, Member States shall endeavour, with a view to improving the\n ecological coherence of the Natura 2000 network, to encourage the management\n of features of the landscape which are of major importance for wild fauna and\n flora. Such features are those which, by virtue of their linear and continuous\n structure (such as rivers with their banks or the traditional systems for\n marking field boundaries) or their function as stepping stones (such as ponds\n or small woods), are essential for the migration, dispersal and genetic\n exchange of wild species.
These areas can play an important role for the coherence of Natura\n 2000 areas and relevant provisions should be included in order to allow\n Natura 2000 payments for these nationally delimited nature protection areas\n if sufficient justification is provided linking them to Article 10 of the\n Habitats Directive. In order to ensure that payments continue to be primarily\n used for the designated Natura 2000 sites, it is proposed to limit their\n proportion compared to the Natura 2000 areas. However, this provision is\n without prejudice to the endeavours of Member States under the Habitats\n Directive related to encouraging the management of landscape features which\n are of major importance for wild fauna and flora and does not prejudice the\n question of what constitutes an adequate implementation of Article 10 of the\n Habitats Directive.
Follow up of non-compliances of the cross-compliance: Member State can decide to\n consider a case of non-compliance as minor or not to apply a reduction or\n exclusion where the amount concerned is less than EUR 100. Currently, the\n competent control authority should ensure that the farmer remedies the\n findings of the non-compliance concerned. However, with a view to\n simplification and in order to ease the administrative burden, consideration\n should be given to simplifying the follow-up checks system.
Introducing incentive element for measures falling under Article\n 43 of the Treaty: in\n order to be compatible with the common market, any aid measure must contain\n some incentive element or require some counterpart on the part of the\n beneficiary. Aid which is granted retroactively in respect of activities\n which have already been undertaken by the beneficiary cannot be considered to\n contain the necessary incentive element. However, for co-financed Rural\n Development measures approved under Article 43 of the Treaty, there is currently\n no requirement for an incentive effect laid down in the Union legislation,\n except in the case of top-ups to which agricultural state aid rules apply.\n Therefore, retroactive granting of aid should also be prohibited for\n co-financed agricultural measures and a starting date of eligibility should\n be provided.
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS: this measure does not involve any additional Union expenditure.
\nThe Council\n was briefed on the two following proposals in the light of the adaptation to\n the Lisbon Treaty:
These proposals also contain a\n number of simplification provisions, which follow up on the assessment by the\n Commission services of the 39 simplification proposals presented by Member\n States in 2009.
Many delegations expressed the\n view that alignment of agricultural legislation with the Lisbon Treaty was a\n complex issue, which required further clarification by the Commission and an\n in-depth analysis by Member States' experts. As regards the proposed\n simplification provisions, those were generally welcomed. Several\n delegations, however, were disappointed that the proposals did not go far\n enough. They reiterated suggestions for further simplification and urged the\n Commission to continue its efforts.
These Commission proposals\n intend to reshape Commission implementing powers in CAP-related legislation\n and bring them into line with the provisions of the Lisbon Treaty (49 basic\n acts are concerned). The proposed amendments classify the Commission's\n existing powers as either delegated or implementing powers.
As regards simplification, the\n proposal amending regulation (EC) n° 1698/2005 includes provisions seeking to\n reduce the number of summary reports from Member States, more targeted use of\n advisory services, the alignment of non-compliance rules for cross-compliance\n with those in Regulation 73/2009 and the extension of provisions on support\n for producer groups to the 'old' Member States.
These proposals will be\n examined by the Council preparatory bodies.
\nThe Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development\nadopted the report drafted by Paolo DE CASTRO (S&D, IT) on the\nproposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the\nCouncil amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 on support\nfor rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural\nDevelopment (EAFRD).
\nIt recommends that the European Parliaments\nposition adopted at first reading, under the ordinary legislative\nprocedure, should amend the Commission proposal as\nfollows:
\nDelegated and implementing powers of the\nCommission: the amendments introduced\nby the MEPs aim to take into account:
\nThe power to adopt the delegated acts is conferred\non the Commission subject to certain conditions. The delegation\nof power shall be conferred on the Commission for a period of five\nyears from the date of entry into force of this Regulation. A\ndelegated act shall enter into force only if no objection has been\nexpressed either by the Parliament or the Council within a period\nof two months of notification of that act to the European\nParliament and the Council. That period shall be extended by two\nmonths at the initiative of the European Parliament or the\nCouncil.
\nAdvisory services: the\nadvisory service to farmers (including the provision of technical\nadvice) shall in all cases cover more than one of the statutory\nmanagement requirements and good agricultural and environmental\nconditions provided for in Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 and, where\nrelevant, one or more of the occupational safety standards based on\nUnion legislation.
\nImproving the environment and rural\ndevelopment: the aid to which this\narticle refers shall only apply to farmers or farmers\nassociations that devote an essential part of their working time to\nagricultural activities and derive from them a significant part of\ntheir income according to criteria to be defined by the Member\nState.
\nFinancial participation of the EAFRD (breakdown of\nresources): notwithstanding the\nprovisions of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005, for Member States that\nhave opted for regional programmes, the calculation of the\nautomatic cancellation of financial resources may be made at the\nlevel of the Member State.
\nEligibility of expenditure (costs excluded from EAFRD\ncofinancing): it is clarified that\nVAT should be excluded from the cofinancing, except non-recoverable\nVAT when it is genuinely and definitively borne by\nbeneficiaries.
\nOn the other hand, work carried out on a time and\nmaterials basis as part of rural development measures by the\nultimate beneficiaries using the manpower, materials and equipment\nwhich a firm has to hand shall be eligible for an EAFRD\ncontribution; in such cases, the amount of expenditure eligible for\na EAFRD contribution shall be calculated on the basis of a price\nlist for the various works performed.
\nThe European Parliament adopted by 645 votes to 25,\nwith 18 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the proposal for a\nregulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending\nCouncil Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 on support for rural\ndevelopment by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development\n(EAFRD).
\nParliaments position adopted at first reading,\nunder the ordinary legislative procedure, amends the Commission\nproposal as follows:
\nDelegated and implementing powers of the\nCommission: the amendments introduced\nby the MEPs aim to take into account:
\nThe power to adopt the delegated acts is conferred\non the Commission subject to certain conditions. The delegation\nof power shall be conferred on the Commission for a period of five\nyears from the date of entry into force of this Regulation. A\ndelegated act shall enter into force only if no objection has been\nexpressed either by the Parliament or the Council within a period\nof two months of notification of that act to the European\nParliament and the Council. That period shall be extended by two\nmonths at the initiative of the European Parliament or the\nCouncil.
\nAdvisory services: the\nadvisory service to farmers (including the provision of technical\nadvice) shall in all cases cover more than one of the statutory\nmanagement requirements and good agricultural and environmental\nconditions provided for in Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 and, where\nrelevant, one or more of the occupational safety standards based on\nUnion legislation.
\nImproving the environment and rural\ndevelopment: the aid to which this\narticle refers shall only apply to farmers or farmers\nassociations that devote an essential part of their working time to\nagricultural activities and derive from them a significant part of\ntheir income according to criteria to be defined by the Member\nState.
\nFinancial participation of the EAFRD (breakdown of\nresources): notwithstanding the\nprovisions of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005, for Member States that\nhave opted for regional programmes, the calculation of the\nautomatic cancellation of financial resources may be made at the\nlevel of the Member State.
\nEligibility of expenditure (costs excluded from EAFRD\ncofinancing): it is clarified that\nVAT should be excluded from the cofinancing, except non-recoverable\nVAT when it is genuinely and definitively borne by\nbeneficiaries.
\nOn the other hand, work carried out on a time and\nmaterials basis as part of rural development measures by the\nultimate beneficiaries using the manpower, materials and equipment\nwhich a firm has to hand shall be eligible for an EAFRD\ncontribution; in such cases, the amount of expenditure eligible for\na EAFRD contribution shall be calculated on the basis of a price\nlist for the various works performed.
\nPURPOSE: to amend Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 on support\n for rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development\n (EAFRD) in order to align it with the Lisbon Treaty and to implement a number\n simplification proposals as part of the simplification exercise of the CAP.
PROPOSED ACT: Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council
BACKGROUND: Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 confers powers on\n the Commission in order to implement some of the provisions of that\n Regulation. As a consequence of the entry into force of the Lisbon Treaty,\n the powers conferred under Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 upon the Commission\n need to be aligned to Articles 290 (delegated acts) and 291 (implementing\n acts) of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU).
IMPACT ASSESSMENT: no impact assessment was carried out.
LEGAL BASE: Article 43 of the TFEU.
CONTENT: this proposal aims to identify the delegated and\n implementing powers of the Commission in Council Regulation (EC) No\n 1698/2005 and establish the corresponding procedure for adoption of these\n acts.
Pursuant to Article 290 of the Treaty,\n the proposal allows the Commission to adopt delegated acts in order\n to:
The Commission shall fix detailed control rules and adopt specific\n transitional measures.
In accordance with Article 291 of the Treaty Member States are responsible for implementing the regime\n established by the Legislator. However, it seems necessary to ensure uniform\n implementation of the scheme in Member States in order to avoid\n distortions of competition or discrimination between operators. Therefore,\n the Legislator gives the Commission powers of enforcement as regards:
Additionally, some elements of simplification are introduced:
Reduction of the number of summary reports and simplification of\n their content under strategic monitoring: as part\n of the simplification exercise of the CAP Member States wanted a reduction in\n the number of reports to the Commission. In addition to annual progress\n reports, Member States are required to submit to the Commission summary\n reports setting out the progress made in implementing their national strategy\n plans and objectives and their contribution to the achievement of the\n Community strategic guidelines. Under the current rules, these summary\n reports are to be submitted each second year, starting from 2010 and ending\n in 2014, i.e. altogether three reports. The proposal will limit the number of\n reports to two, the first one to be submitted in 2010 and the second one in\n 2015, the former in the context of mid-term evaluation and the latter of ex\n post evaluation.
In addition, the report is required to summarise the previous\n year's annual progress reports. This requirement should be dropped, as it\n duplicates work. The number of Commission reports summarising the main\n developments, trends and challenges relating to the implementation of the\n national strategy plans and the Community strategic guidelines will bw\n reduced to two, one in 2011 and the second one in 2016.
Extension of the coverage of the measure for producer groups: the current provision on support for producer groups, which is\n already available for all sectors in the new Member States, should be\n extended to also cover EU-15. However, there will be support for producer\n groups in the fruit and vegetable sector as their activities may be supported\n under the single CMO.
Facilitating more tailor-made use of the advisory services: Member States had proposed changing the\n rules for use of advisory services. Currently the rules require that, as a\n minimum, the advisory service to farmers should cover the statutory\n management requirements and the good agricultural and environmental\n conditions under cross-compliance as well as the occupational safety\n standards based on Union legislation.
In order to facilitate more tailor-made use of the advisory\n services and to reflect the individual needs of the beneficiary, the advisory\n service provided will not need to cover all the aspects listed, but one or\n more of them.
Continuous linear features and stepping stones: according to Article 10 of the Habitats\n Directive, Member States shall endeavour, with a view to improving the\n ecological coherence of the Natura 2000 network, to encourage the management\n of features of the landscape which are of major importance for wild fauna and\n flora. Such features are those which, by virtue of their linear and continuous\n structure (such as rivers with their banks or the traditional systems for\n marking field boundaries) or their function as stepping stones (such as ponds\n or small woods), are essential for the migration, dispersal and genetic\n exchange of wild species.
These areas can play an important role for the coherence of Natura\n 2000 areas and relevant provisions should be included in order to allow\n Natura 2000 payments for these nationally delimited nature protection areas\n if sufficient justification is provided linking them to Article 10 of the\n Habitats Directive. In order to ensure that payments continue to be primarily\n used for the designated Natura 2000 sites, it is proposed to limit their\n proportion compared to the Natura 2000 areas. However, this provision is\n without prejudice to the endeavours of Member States under the Habitats\n Directive related to encouraging the management of landscape features which\n are of major importance for wild fauna and flora and does not prejudice the\n question of what constitutes an adequate implementation of Article 10 of the\n Habitats Directive.
Follow up of non-compliances of the cross-compliance: Member State can decide to\n consider a case of non-compliance as minor or not to apply a reduction or\n exclusion where the amount concerned is less than EUR 100. Currently, the\n competent control authority should ensure that the farmer remedies the\n findings of the non-compliance concerned. However, with a view to\n simplification and in order to ease the administrative burden, consideration\n should be given to simplifying the follow-up checks system.
Introducing incentive element for measures falling under Article\n 43 of the Treaty: in\n order to be compatible with the common market, any aid measure must contain\n some incentive element or require some counterpart on the part of the\n beneficiary. Aid which is granted retroactively in respect of activities\n which have already been undertaken by the beneficiary cannot be considered to\n contain the necessary incentive element. However, for co-financed Rural\n Development measures approved under Article 43 of the Treaty, there is currently\n no requirement for an incentive effect laid down in the Union legislation,\n except in the case of top-ups to which agricultural state aid rules apply.\n Therefore, retroactive granting of aid should also be prohibited for\n co-financed agricultural measures and a starting date of eligibility should\n be provided.
FINANCIAL IMPLICATIONS: this measure does not involve any additional Union expenditure.
\nThe Council\n was briefed on the two following proposals in the light of the adaptation to\n the Lisbon Treaty:
These proposals also contain a\n number of simplification provisions, which follow up on the assessment by the\n Commission services of the 39 simplification proposals presented by Member\n States in 2009.
Many delegations expressed the\n view that alignment of agricultural legislation with the Lisbon Treaty was a\n complex issue, which required further clarification by the Commission and an\n in-depth analysis by Member States' experts. As regards the proposed\n simplification provisions, those were generally welcomed. Several\n delegations, however, were disappointed that the proposals did not go far\n enough. They reiterated suggestions for further simplification and urged the\n Commission to continue its efforts.
These Commission proposals\n intend to reshape Commission implementing powers in CAP-related legislation\n and bring them into line with the provisions of the Lisbon Treaty (49 basic\n acts are concerned). The proposed amendments classify the Commission's\n existing powers as either delegated or implementing powers.
As regards simplification, the\n proposal amending regulation (EC) n° 1698/2005 includes provisions seeking to\n reduce the number of summary reports from Member States, more targeted use of\n advisory services, the alignment of non-compliance rules for cross-compliance\n with those in Regulation 73/2009 and the extension of provisions on support\n for producer groups to the 'old' Member States.
These proposals will be\n examined by the Council preparatory bodies.
\nThe Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development\nadopted the report drafted by Paolo DE CASTRO (S&D, IT) on the\nproposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the\nCouncil amending Council Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 on support\nfor rural development by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural\nDevelopment (EAFRD).
\nIt recommends that the European Parliaments\nposition adopted at first reading, under the ordinary legislative\nprocedure, should amend the Commission proposal as\nfollows:
\nDelegated and implementing powers of the\nCommission: the amendments introduced\nby the MEPs aim to take into account:
\nThe power to adopt the delegated acts is conferred\non the Commission subject to certain conditions. The delegation\nof power shall be conferred on the Commission for a period of five\nyears from the date of entry into force of this Regulation. A\ndelegated act shall enter into force only if no objection has been\nexpressed either by the Parliament or the Council within a period\nof two months of notification of that act to the European\nParliament and the Council. That period shall be extended by two\nmonths at the initiative of the European Parliament or the\nCouncil.
\nAdvisory services: the\nadvisory service to farmers (including the provision of technical\nadvice) shall in all cases cover more than one of the statutory\nmanagement requirements and good agricultural and environmental\nconditions provided for in Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 and, where\nrelevant, one or more of the occupational safety standards based on\nUnion legislation.
\nImproving the environment and rural\ndevelopment: the aid to which this\narticle refers shall only apply to farmers or farmers\nassociations that devote an essential part of their working time to\nagricultural activities and derive from them a significant part of\ntheir income according to criteria to be defined by the Member\nState.
\nFinancial participation of the EAFRD (breakdown of\nresources): notwithstanding the\nprovisions of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005, for Member States that\nhave opted for regional programmes, the calculation of the\nautomatic cancellation of financial resources may be made at the\nlevel of the Member State.
\nEligibility of expenditure (costs excluded from EAFRD\ncofinancing): it is clarified that\nVAT should be excluded from the cofinancing, except non-recoverable\nVAT when it is genuinely and definitively borne by\nbeneficiaries.
\nOn the other hand, work carried out on a time and\nmaterials basis as part of rural development measures by the\nultimate beneficiaries using the manpower, materials and equipment\nwhich a firm has to hand shall be eligible for an EAFRD\ncontribution; in such cases, the amount of expenditure eligible for\na EAFRD contribution shall be calculated on the basis of a price\nlist for the various works performed.
\nThe European Parliament adopted by 645 votes to 25,\nwith 18 abstentions, a legislative resolution on the proposal for a\nregulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending\nCouncil Regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 on support for rural\ndevelopment by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development\n(EAFRD).
\nParliaments position adopted at first reading,\nunder the ordinary legislative procedure, amends the Commission\nproposal as follows:
\nDelegated and implementing powers of the\nCommission: the amendments introduced\nby the MEPs aim to take into account:
\nThe power to adopt the delegated acts is conferred\non the Commission subject to certain conditions. The delegation\nof power shall be conferred on the Commission for a period of five\nyears from the date of entry into force of this Regulation. A\ndelegated act shall enter into force only if no objection has been\nexpressed either by the Parliament or the Council within a period\nof two months of notification of that act to the European\nParliament and the Council. That period shall be extended by two\nmonths at the initiative of the European Parliament or the\nCouncil.
\nAdvisory services: the\nadvisory service to farmers (including the provision of technical\nadvice) shall in all cases cover more than one of the statutory\nmanagement requirements and good agricultural and environmental\nconditions provided for in Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 and, where\nrelevant, one or more of the occupational safety standards based on\nUnion legislation.
\nImproving the environment and rural\ndevelopment: the aid to which this\narticle refers shall only apply to farmers or farmers\nassociations that devote an essential part of their working time to\nagricultural activities and derive from them a significant part of\ntheir income according to criteria to be defined by the Member\nState.
\nFinancial participation of the EAFRD (breakdown of\nresources): notwithstanding the\nprovisions of Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005, for Member States that\nhave opted for regional programmes, the calculation of the\nautomatic cancellation of financial resources may be made at the\nlevel of the Member State.
\nEligibility of expenditure (costs excluded from EAFRD\ncofinancing): it is clarified that\nVAT should be excluded from the cofinancing, except non-recoverable\nVAT when it is genuinely and definitively borne by\nbeneficiaries.
\nOn the other hand, work carried out on a time and\nmaterials basis as part of rural development measures by the\nultimate beneficiaries using the manpower, materials and equipment\nwhich a firm has to hand shall be eligible for an EAFRD\ncontribution; in such cases, the amount of expenditure eligible for\na EAFRD contribution shall be calculated on the basis of a price\nlist for the various works performed.
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