Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 680/2011
of 14 July 2011
establishing budgetary ceilings for 2011 applicable to certain direct support schemes provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,
Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,
Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 of 19 January 2009 establishing common rules for direct support schemes for farmers under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers, amending Regulations (EC) No 1290/2005, (EC) No 247/2006 and (EC) No 378/2007 and repealing Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003, and in particular the first subparagraph of Article 51(2), Articles 69(3), 87(3) and 123(1), the second subparagraph of Article 128(1), the second subparagraph of Article 128(2), and Article 131(4) thereof,
OJ L 30, 31.1.2009, p. 16.
Whereas:
(1) For the Member States implementing, in 2011, the single payment scheme provided for under Title III of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, the budgetary ceilings for each of the payments referred to in Articles 52, 53 and 54 of that Regulation should be established for 2011.
(2) For the Member States making use, in 2011, of the option provided for in Article 87 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, the budgetary ceilings applicable to the direct payments excluded from the single payment scheme should be fixed for 2011.
(3) For the Member States making use, in 2011, of the options provided for in Article 69(1) or 131(1) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, the budgetary ceilings for the specific support referred to in Chapter 5 of Title III of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 should be established for 2011.
(4) Article 69(4) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 limits the resources that can be used for any coupled measure provided for in points (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) of Article 68(1)(a) and in Article 68(1)(b) and (e) to 3,5 % of the national ceiling referred to in Article 40 of the same Regulation. For the sake of clarity, the Commission should publish the ceiling resulting from the amounts notified by the Member States for the measures concerned.
(5) Pursuant to Article 69(6)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, the amounts calculated in accordance with Article 69(7) of that Regulation have been laid down in Annex III to Commission Regulation (EC) No 1120/2009 of 29 October 2009 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of the single payment scheme provided for in Title III of Council Regulation (EC) No 73/2009. For the sake of clarity, the Commission should publish the amounts notified by Member States which they intend to use in accordance with Article 69(6)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009.
OJ L 316, 2.12.2009, p. 1.
(6) For the sake of clarity, the 2011 budgetary ceilings for the single payment scheme, resulting from deduction of the ceilings established for the payments referred to in Articles 52, 53, 54, 68 and 87 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 from the ceilings given in Annex VIII to the same Regulation, should be published. The amount to be deducted from the said Annex VIII in order to finance the specific support provided for in Article 68 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 corresponds to the difference between the total amount for the specific support notified by the Member States and the amounts notified to finance the specific support in accordance with Article 69(6)(a) of the same Regulation. Where a Member State implementing the single payment scheme decides to grant the support referred to in point (c) of Article 68(1), the amount notified to the Commission is to be included in the single payment scheme ceiling, as this support takes the form of an increase in the unit value and/or the number of the farmer’s payment entitlements.
(7) For Member States implementing, in 2011, the single area payment scheme provided for in Chapter 2 of Title V of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, the annual financial envelopes should be established in accordance with Article 123(1) of that Regulation.
(8) For the sake of clarity, the maximum amount of funds available to Member States applying the single area payment scheme for granting separate sugar payments in 2011 pursuant to Article 126 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, established on the basis of their notification, should be published.
(9) For the sake of clarity, the maximum amount of funds available to Member States applying the single area payment scheme for granting separate fruit and vegetables payments in 2011 pursuant to Article 127 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, established on the basis of their notification, should be published.
(10) For Member States applying the single area payment scheme, the 2011 budgetary ceilings applicable to transitional payments for fruit and vegetables payments in 2011 in accordance with Article 128(1) and (2) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, should be published on the basis of their notification.
(11) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Direct Payments,
HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1 1. The budgetary ceilings for 2011 referred to in Article 51(2) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 are set out in Annex I to this Regulation.
2. The budgetary ceilings for 2011 referred to in Article 87(3) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 are set out in Annex II to this Regulation.
3. The budgetary ceilings for 2011 referred to in Articles 69(3) and 131(4) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 are set out in Annex III to this Regulation.
4. The budgetary ceilings for 2011 for the support provided for in points (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) of Article 68(1)(a) and in Article 68(1)(b) and (e) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 are set out in Annex IV to this Regulation.
5. The amounts that can be used by the Member States in accordance with Article 69(6)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 to cover the specific support provided for in Article 68(1) of the same Regulation are set out in Annex V to this Regulation.
6. The budgetary ceilings for 2011 for the single payment scheme referred to in Title III of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 are set out in Annex VI to this Regulation.
7. The annual financial envelopes for 2011 referred to in Article 123(1) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 are set out in Annex VII to this Regulation.
8. The maximum amounts of funding available to the Czech Republic, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Romania and Slovakia for granting the separate sugar payment in 2011, as referred to in Article 126 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, are set out in Annex VIII to this Regulation.
9. The maximum amounts of funding available to the Czech Republic, Hungary, Poland and Slovakia for granting the separate fruit and vegetables payment in 2011, as referred to in Article 127 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009, are set out in Annex IX to this Regulation.
10. The budgetary ceilings for 2011 referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 128(1) and (2) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 are set out in Annex X to this Regulation.
Article 2 This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.
Done at Brussels, 14 July 2011.
For the Commission
The President
José Manuel Barroso
ANNEX I

Budgetary ceilings for direct payments to be granted in accordance with Articles 52, 53 and 54 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009
2011 calendar year
(thousand EUR)										
	BE	DK	ES	FR	IT	AT	PT	SI	FI	SE
Sheep and goat premium		855					21 892		600	
Sheep and goat supplementary premium							7 184		200	
Suckler cow premium	77 565		261 153	525 622		70 578	78 695			
Additional suckler cow premium	19 389		26 000			99	9 462			
Special beef premium		33 085						10 077		37 446
Slaughter premium, adults			47 175				8 657			
Slaughter premium, calves	6 384		560				946			
Tomatoes – Article 54(1)				4 017			16 667			
Fruit and vegetables. other than tomatoes – Article 54(2)				33 025	850					
ANNEX II

Budgetary ceilings for direct payments to be granted in accordance with Article 87 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009
2011 Calendar year
(thousand EUR)						
	Spain	France	Italy	Netherlands	Portugal	Finland
– Aid for seeds	10 347	2 310	13 321	726	272	1 150
ANNEX III

Budgetary ceilings for the specific support provided for in Article 68(1) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009
2011 Calendar year
(thousand EUR)	
Member State	
Belgium	6 389
Bulgaria	19 326
Czech Republic	31 826
Denmark	15 800
Germany	2 000
Estonia	1 253
Ireland	25 000
Greece	108 000
Spain	247 865
France	456 600
Italy	316 950
Latvia	5 130
Lithuania	9 503
Hungary	77 290
Netherlands	21 965
Austria	11 900
Poland	40 800
Portugal	32 411
Romania	25 545
Slovenia	11 699
Slovakia	11 000
Finland	47 555
Sweden	3 434
United Kingdom	29 800
Note: Amounts notified by the Member States to grant the support referred to in point (c) of Article 68(1) which are included in the single payment scheme ceiling.	
Greece: 30 000 thousand EUR	
Slovenia: 4 800 thousand EUR	
ANNEX IV

Budgetary ceilings for the support provided for in points (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) of Article 68(1)(a) and in Article 68(1)(b) and (e) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009
2011 Calendar year
(thousand EUR)	
Member State	
Belgium	6 389
Bulgaria	19 326
Czech Republic	31 826
Denmark	4 300
Germany	2 000
Estonia	1 253
Ireland	25 000
Greece	78 000
Spain	178 265
France	272 600
Italy	147 950
Latvia	5 130
Lithuania	9 503
Hungary	46 164
Netherlands	14 000
Austria	11 900
Poland	40 800
Portugal	19 510
Romania	25 545
Slovenia	6 899
Slovakia	11 000
Finland	47 555
Sweden	3 434
United Kingdom	29 800
ANNEX V

Amounts to be used by the Member States in accordance with Article 69(6)(a) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 to cover the specific support provided for in Article 68(1) of that Regulation
2011 Calendar year
(thousand EUR)	
Member State	
Belgium	6 389
Denmark	15 800
Ireland	23 900
Greece	70 000
Spain	144 200
France	74 000
Italy	144 900
Netherlands	21 965
Austria	11 900
Portugal	21 700
Slovenia	4 800
Finland	4 762
ANNEX VI

Budgetary ceilings for the single payment scheme
2011 Calendar year
(thousand EUR)	
Member State	
Belgium	508 479
Denmark	997 381
Germany	5 769 994
Ireland	1 339 421
Greece	2 223 798
Spain	4 676 132
France	7 477 752
Italy	4 048 143
Luxembourg	37 679
Malta	4 726
Netherlands	852 443
Austria	676 748
Portugal	435 505
Slovenia	105 247
Finland	521 080
Sweden	724 349
United Kingdom	3 946 682
ANNEX VII

Annual financial envelopes for the single area payment scheme
2011 Calendar year
(thousand EUR)	
Member State	
Bulgaria	400 035
Czech Republic	667 365
Estonia	80 656
Cyprus	40 902
Latvia	111 260
Lithuania	289 729
Hungary	958 593
Poland	2 280 455
Romania	877 278
Slovakia	292 357
ANNEX VIII

Maximum amounts of funding available to Member States for granting the separate sugar payments referred to in Article 126 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009
2011 Calendar year
(thousand EUR)	
Member State	
Czech Republic	44 245
Latvia	3 308
Lithuania	10 260
Hungary	41 010
Poland	159 392
Romania	5 051
Slovakia	19 289
ANNEX IX

Maximum amounts of funding available to Member States for granting the separate fruit and vegetables payments referred to in Article 127 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009
2011 Calendar year
(thousand EUR)	
Member State	
Czech Republic	414
Hungary	4 756
Poland	6 715
Slovakia	690
ANNEX X

Budgetary ceilings for the transitional payments in the fruit and vegetable sector referred to in Article 128 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009
2011 Calendar year
(thousand EUR)			
Member State	Cyprus	Romania	Slovakia
Tomatoes – Article 128(1)		869	335
Fruit and vegetables other than tomatoes – Article 128(2)	3 359		