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2007/326/EC: Commission Decision of 27 April 2007 on the clearance of the accounts of the paying agencies in Hungary and Malta concerning expenditure financed by the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), Guarantee Section, for the 2005 financial year (notified under document number C(2007) 1894)

2007/326/EC: Commission Decision of 27 April 2007 on the clearance of the accounts of the paying agencies in Hungary and Malta concerning expenditure financed by the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), Guarantee Section, for the 2005 financial year (notified under document number C(2007) 1894)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999 of 17 May 1999 on the financing of the common agricultural policy(1), and in particular Article 7(3) thereof,

After consulting the Fund Committee,

Whereas:

  1. Commission Decisions 2006/322/EC(2) cleared, for the 2005 financial year, the accounts of all the paying agencies except for the German paying agency ‘Bayern-Umwelt’, the Italian paying agency ‘AGEA’, the Luxembourg paying agency ‘Ministère de l'Agriculture’, the Hungarian paying Agency ‘ARDA’, the Portuguese paying agency ‘IFADAP’ and the Maltese paying agency ‘MRAE’.

  2. Following the transmission of new information by Hungary and Malta, and after additional checks, the Commission can now take a decision on the integrality, accuracy and veracity of the accounts submitted by the Hungarian paying agency ‘ARDA’ and the Maltese paying agency ‘MRAE’.

  3. In accordance with the second subparagraph of Article 7(3) of Regulation (EC) No 1258/1999, this Decision does not prejudice decisions adopted subsequently by the Commission excluding from Community financing expenditure not effected in accordance with Community rules,

HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION:

Article 1

The accounts of the Hungarian paying agency ‘ARDA’ and the Maltese paying agency ‘MRAE’ concerning expenditure financed by the European Agricultural Guidance and Guarantee Fund (EAGGF), Guarantee Section, in respect of the 2005 financial year are hereby cleared.

The amounts which are recoverable from, or payable to, each of the Member States concerned pursuant to this Decision are set out in Annex I.

The amounts which are recoverable from, or payable to, each Member State pursuant to this Decision in the field of rural development measures applicable in Hungary and Malta are set out in Annex II and Annex III.

Article 2

This Decision is addressed to the Republic of Hungary and the Republic of Malta.

Done at Brussels, 27 April 2007.

For the Commission

Mariann Fischer Boel

Member of the Commission

ANNEX I

CLEARANCE OF THE PAYING AGENCIES' ACCOUNTS

Financial year 2005

Amount to be recovered from or paid to the Member State

MS

2005 — Expenditure for the Paying Agencies for which the accounts are

Total a + b

Reductions and suspensions for the whole financial year

Total including reductions and suspensions

Advances paid to the Member State for the financial year

Amount to be recovered from (–) or paid to (+) the Member State(*)

cleared

disjoined

= expenditure declared in the annual declaration

= total of the expenditure in the monthly declarations

a

b

c = a + b

d

e = c + d

f

g = e – f

HU

HUF

127 456 066 798,00

0,00

127 456 066 798,00

–10 699 420,33

127 445 367 377,67

127 427 318 113,67

18 049 264,00

MT

MTL

372 669,93

0,00

372 669,93

0,00

372 669,93

372 670,01

–0,08

ANNEX II

ANNEX III