TITLE IVU.K.OTHER AID SCHEMES

CHAPTER 11U.K.SHEEP AND GOAT PREMIUMS

Article 116U.K.Individual limits

1.On 1 January 2005 the individual ceiling per farmer referred to in Article 113(3), shall be equal to the number of premium rights which he held on 31 December 2004 in accordance with the relevant Community rules.

[F12. Member States shall take the necessary measures to ensure that the sum of premium rights on their territory does not exceed the national ceilings set out in paragraph 4 and that the national reserves referred to in Article 118 may be maintained.

Except in cases where Article 143b is applied, the new Member States shall allocate individual ceilings to producers and shall set up the national reserves from the overall number of rights to the premium reserved for each of these new Member States as set out in paragraph 4, no later than one year after the date of accession.

After the end of the period of application of the single area payment scheme according to Article 143b and where Article 67 is applied, the allocation of the individual ceilings to producers and the setting up of the national reserve referred to in the second subparagraph shall take place no later than the end of the first year of the application of the single payment scheme.]

3.Premium rights, which have been withdrawn pursuant to the measure taken pursuant to paragraph 2 shall be abolished.

[F14. The following ceilings shall apply:

a

To be adjusted on the expiry of Regulation (EC) No 1017/94.]

Member State Rights (×  1 000 )
Belgium 70
Czech Republic 66,733
Denmark 104
Germany 2 432
Estonia 48
Greece 11 023
Spain 19 580
France 7 842
Ireland 4 956
Italy 9 575
Cyprus 472,401
Latvia 18,437
Lithuania 17,304
Luxembourg 4
Hungary 1 146
Malta 8,485
Netherlands 930
Austria 206
Poland 335,88
Portugal a 2 690
Slovenia 84,909
Slovakia 305,756
Finland 80
Sweden 180
United Kingdom 19 492
Total 81 667,905