Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2018/288

of 19 February 2018

amending Implementing Regulation (EU) No 367/2014 setting the net balance available for EAGF expenditure

THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION,

Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

Having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1306/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 17 December 2013 on the financing, management and monitoring of the common agricultural policy and repealing Council Regulations (EEC) No 352/78, (EC) No 165/94, (EC) No 2799/98, (EC) No 814/2000, (EC) No 1290/2005 and (EC) No 485/20081, and in particular Article 16(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 367/20142 sets the net balance available for European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) expenditure, as well as the amounts available for the budget years 2014 to 2020 for the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD), pursuant to Article 10c(2) and Articles 136, 136a and 136b of Council Regulation (EC) No 73/20093 and to Article 7(2), Article 14 and Article 66(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council4.
(2)
In accordance with the fourth subparagraph of Article 14(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013, France, Lithuania and the Netherlands notified the Commission by 1 August 2017 of their decision to review, for the calendar years 2018 and 2019, their previous decision to transfer a certain percentage of their annual national ceilings of direct payments to rural development programming financed under the EAFRD as specified in Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council5. The relevant national ceilings were adapted through Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/1626.
(3)
In accordance with Article 3(1) of Council Regulation (EU, Euratom) No 1311/20137, the sub-ceiling for market related expenditure and direct payments of the multiannual financial framework set out in Annex I to that Regulation is to be adjusted under the technical adjustment provided for in Article 6(1) of that Regulation following the transfers between the EAFRD and direct payments.
(4)

As a result of those changes, it is necessary to adjust the net balance available for EAGF as set by Implementing Regulation (EU) No 367/2014. For the sake of clarity, the amounts to be made available to the EAFRD should be also published.

(5)

Implementing Regulation (EU) No 367/2014 should therefore be amended accordingly,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The Annex to Implementing Regulation (EU) No 367/2014 is replaced by the text in the Annex to this Regulation.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following that of 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, 19 February 2018.

For the Commission

The President

Jean-Claude Juncker

ANNEX

‘ANNEX

(EUR million — current prices)

Budget year

Amounts made available to EAFRD

Amounts transferred from EAFRD

Net balance available for EAGF expenditure

Article 10b of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009

Article 136 of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009

Article 136b of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009

Article 66 of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013

Article 136a(1) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 and Article 14(1) of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013

Article 7(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013

Article 136a(2) of Regulation (EC) No 73/2009 and Article 14(2) of Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013

2014

296,300

51,600

4,000

43 778,1

2015

51,600

4,000

621,999

499,384

44 189,785

2016

4,000

1 138,146

108,659

573,047

43 950,242

2017

4,000

1 174,732

111,026

572,440

44 145,682

2018

4,000

1 184,257

110,213

571,820

44 162,35

2019

4,000

1 491,459

111,358

571,158

43 880,341

2020

4,000

1 507,843

112,041

570,356

43 887,472’