Commission Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 (repealed)Show full title

Commission Regulation (EC) No 917/2004

of 29 April 2004

on detailed rules to implement Council Regulation (EC) No 797/2004 [X1 on measures improving general conditions for the production and marketing of apiculture products] (repealed)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation 797/2004(1), and in particular Article 6 thereof,

Whereas:

(1) Regulation (EC) No 797/2004 replacing Council Regulation (EC) No 1221/97(2) lays down measures for the purpose of improving the conditions under which beekeeping products is produced and marketed. In the interest of clarity, it should be repealed Commission Regulation (EC) No 2300/97 of 20 November 1997 on detailed rules to implement Council Regulation (EC) No 1221/97 laying down general rules for the application of measures to improve the production and marketing of honey(3) and it should be replaced by a new Regulation.

(2) Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 797/2004 states that Member States may establish apiculture programmes. It is necessary to specify the basic elements that these programmes are required to contain and the time limit for their transmission to the Commission.

(3) The Community's financial contribution to national programmes should be restricted, by reference to each Member State's share of the total number of hives in the Community.

(4) The Member States are to monitor programmes implemented pursuant to this Regulation. Those monitoring measures are to be notified to the Commission.

(5) Consistency between measures of apiculture programmes and other measures under the various Community policies must be ensured during the implementation of programmes. In particular, any over-compensation owing to the combination of aid and any other inconsistency in the definition of measures must be avoided.

(6) In order to allow certain flexibility in the implementation of the programme, the financial limits notified for each measure may vary by certain percentage without, however, exceeding the overall ceiling for the annual programme. If use is made of the flexibility allowed in implementation of the programme, the Community financial contribution must not exceed the limit of 50 % of the expenditure actually borne by the Member State concerned.

(7) In order to allow more flexibility in the implementation of the programme, the measures of the programmes could be adapted during the implementation of the programme, however modified actions must be the same as measures provide for in Council Regulation (EC) No 797/2004.

(8) Rules should be adopted for setting the conversion rates to be applied to the financing of national programmes.

(9) Rules concerning its content should be laid down to ensure that the studies referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 797/2004 are carried out and up to date in a consistent fashion.

(10) The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Eggs and Poultrymeat Committee,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Editorial Information

X1 Substituted by Corrigendum to Commission Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 of 29 April 2004 on detailed rules to implement Council Regulation (EC) No 797/2004 on actions in the field of beekeeping (Official Journal of the European Union L 163 of 30 April 2004).

[F1 Article 1 U.K.

The national programmes referred to in Article 105 of Council Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007 (4) (hereinafter referred to as ‘the apiculture programmes’) shall:

(a)

describe the situation in the sector making it possible to update regularly the structural data in the study referred to in Article 107 of Regulation (EC) No 1234/2007, covering in particular the following:

(i)

total number of beekeepers;

(ii)

number of professional beekeepers with more than 150 hives each;

(iii)

total number of hives;

(iv)

honey production;

(v)

list of aims of the programme;

(b)

give a detailed description of the measures involved, with estimated costs and financing plan broken down by year at national and regional level, according to the following headings:

(i)

technical assistance to beekeepers;

(ii)

control of varroasis;

(iii)

rationalisation of transhumance;

(iv)

analyses of honey;

(v)

restocking of hives;

(vi)

applied research programmes;

(c)

refer to the applicable laws, regulations and administrative provisions;

(d)

list the representative organisations and bee-keeping cooperatives that collaborated with the competent authority of the Member State in drawing up the apiculture programmes;

(e)

set up the monitoring and assessment arrangements of the apiculture programmes.]

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1212/2012 of 17 December 2012 amending Regulations (EC) No 2535/2001, (EC) No 917/2004, (EC) No 382/2008, (EC) No 748/2008, (EC) No 810/2008 and (EC) No 610/2009 as regards the notification obligations within the common organisation of agricultural markets.

Article 2 U.K.

1. Member States shall notify their apiculture programme to the Commission before 15 April of the first year of the three years period applied by the programme.

[ F2 . . . . .]

[F3 2. Each year of the apiculture programme ( ‘ apiculture year ’ ) shall run for 12 consecutive months from 1 September until 31 August.

3. The apiculture programme measures laid down for each apiculture year shall be implemented in full within the apiculture year concerned.

Payments related to measures implemented during each apiculture year shall be made within the 12-month period starting on 16 October of that apiculture year and ending on 15 October of the following year.]

Textual Amendments

F2 Deleted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 811/2007 of 11 July 2007 amending Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 on detailed rules to implement Council Regulation (EC) No 797/2004 on improving general conditions for the production and marketing of apiculture products.

F3 Substituted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 768/2013 of 8 August 2013 amending Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 on detailed rules to implement Council Regulation (EC) No 797/2004 on measures improving general conditions for the production and marketing of apiculture products.

Article 3 U.K.

Community part-financing of apiculture programmes shall be restricted for each Member State to an amount corresponding to its share of the total number of beehives in the Community, as stated in Annex I to this Regulation.

However, if one or more Member States does not notify its apiculture programme within the time limits laid down in Article 2 (1), or does not use all of the amount of part-financing referred to in the first paragraph, the shares of the other Member States may be increased in proportion to their share.

Article 4 U.K.

Member States shall forward to the Commission, together with their apiculture programmes, documents specifying how the programmes are to be monitored.

The monitoring checks shall be designed to verify compliance with the terms on which aid is granted under the national programmes. These shall consist of both administrative and on-the-spot checks.

Sufficient proof of these controls shall be available by the paying agencies.

Article 5 U.K.

1. Member States shall communicate to the Commission the list of measures on apiculture included in national operational programmes under Objectives 1 and 2 laid down by Council Regulation (EC) No 1260/1999(5), before the date referred to in Article 2 (1).

2. The same measure may not be the subject of payments simultaneously under Regulation (EC) No 797/2004 and under another Community aid scheme, in particular respect of Council Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999(6).

[F4 Article 6 U.K.

Provided they continue to comply with Article 2 of Regulation (EC) No 797/2004, measures in apiculture programmes may be adjusted during a year. The financial limits for each of these measures may be amended provided that the overall ceiling on planned annual expenditure is not exceeded and that the Community contribution to financing of the apiculture programme does not exceed 50 % of the expenditure borne by the Member State concerned.

The Member State concerned shall notify the Commission of any draft adjustment to the measures during a year, pursuant to the first subparagraph, where a measure had not been planned initially and notified in the three-year programme. If the Commission raises no objection, the adjustment shall take effect from the first day of the second month following such notification.

[F1 By 15 December each year, Member States shall notify the Commission of a summary of the implementation of expenditure broken down according to the headings referred to in Article 1(b).] ]

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1212/2012 of 17 December 2012 amending Regulations (EC) No 2535/2001, (EC) No 917/2004, (EC) No 382/2008, (EC) No 748/2008, (EC) No 810/2008 and (EC) No 610/2009 as regards the notification obligations within the common organisation of agricultural markets.

F4 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 811/2007 of 11 July 2007 amending Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 on detailed rules to implement Council Regulation (EC) No 797/2004 on improving general conditions for the production and marketing of apiculture products.

[F5 Article 6a U.K.

The notifications referred to in this Regulation shall be made in accordance with Commission Regulation (EC) No 792/2009 (7) .]

Textual Amendments

F5 Inserted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1212/2012 of 17 December 2012 amending Regulations (EC) No 2535/2001, (EC) No 917/2004, (EC) No 382/2008, (EC) No 748/2008, (EC) No 810/2008 and (EC) No 610/2009 as regards the notification obligations within the common organisation of agricultural markets.

F2 Article 7 U.K.

. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Textual Amendments

F2 Deleted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 811/2007 of 11 July 2007 amending Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 on detailed rules to implement Council Regulation (EC) No 797/2004 on improving general conditions for the production and marketing of apiculture products.

[F6 Article 8 U.K.

For the amount referred to in Article 3 the operative event for the exchange rate shall be the same as that referred to in the first subparagraph of Article 7(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1913/2006 (8) .]

Textual Amendments

F6 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1913/2006 of 20 December 2006 laying down detailed rules for the application of the agrimonetary system for the euro in agriculture and amending certain regulations.

Article 9 U.K.

The studies referred to in Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1221/97 shall refer the points indicated in Annex II to this Regulation.

Article 10 U.K.

Regulation (EC) No 2300/97 is repealed.

References to the repealed Regulation shall be construed as references to this Regulation and shall be read in accordance with the correlation table set out in Annex III.

Article 11 U.K.

This Regulation shall enter into force on the 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.

[F3 ANNEX I U.K.

Member State	Bee census Number of hives
BE	107 800
BG	526 014
CZ	540 705
DK	150 000
DE	711 299
EE	41 400
IE	15 710
EL	1 584 206
ES	2 459 292
FR	1 636 000
[X2 HR	491 981]
IT	1 316 774
CY	44 953
LV	83 801
LT	144 969
LU	7 804
HU	1 088 590
MT	3 142
NL	80 000
AT	376 485
PL	1 280 693
PT	566 793
RO	1 550 000
SI	167 000
SK	254 859
FI	50 000
SE	150 000
UK	274 000
EU 28	15 704 270]

Editorial Information

X2 Substituted by Corrigendum to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 768/2013 of 8 August 2013 amending Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 on detailed rules to implement Council Regulation (EC) No 797/2004 on measures improving general conditions for the production and marketing of apiculture products (Official Journal of the European Union L 214 of 9 August 2013).

ANNEX II U.K. Study on the structure of the apiculture sector, as referred to in Article 9

1. Hives and bee keepers U.K.

Professional beekeeper's hives:

Total hives:

Professional beekeepers (a):

Total beekeepers:

2. Marketing structures U.K.

Production (b): Direct sales to consumers

Direct sales to retailers

Sales for market preparation/to dealers

Sales to industry

Imports: Sales to dealers/for market preparation/to industry

Exports:

4. Production and market preparation costs U.K.

Fixed costs:

Variable costs:

• Detailed breakdown if available covering:

  • varroasis control costs

  • winter feeding

  • packaging (containers)

  • transhumance

5. Honey quality U.K.

Certificates of specific character: Council Regulation (EEC) No 2082/92 (¹) U.K.

Designation of origin: Council Regulation (EEC) No 2081/92 (²)

Geographical indication: Regulation (EEC) No 2081/92

Notes: U.K.

(a) A professional beekeeper is one running more than 150 hives. U.K.

(b) Where possible please indicate type of honey and size of holding. U.K.

ANNEX III U.K.

Correlation table

Regulation (EC) No 2300/97	This Regulation
Article 1	Article 1
Article 2(1)	Article 2(1)
	Article 2(2)
Article 2(2)	Article 2(3)
Article 3	Article 3
Article 4(1)	Article 4, subparagraphs 1 and 2
Article 4(2)	Article 5(1)
Article 4(3)	Article 5(2)
Article 4bis	Article 6
	Article 7
Article 5	Article 8
Article 6	Article 9
	Article 10
Article 7	Article 11
Annex I	Annex I
Annex II	Annex II
–	Annex III

(1)

OJ L 125, 28.4.2004, p. 1.

(2)

OJ L 173, 1.7.1997, p. 1.

(3)

OJ L 319, 21.11.1997, p. 4. Regulation last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1387/2003 (OJ L 196, 2.8.2003, p. 22).

(4)

[F1 OJ L 299, 16.11.2007, p. 1 .]

(5)

OJ L 161, 26.6.1999, p. 1.

(6)

OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 80.

(7)

[F5 OJ L 228, 1.9.2009, p. 3 .]

(8)

[F6 OJ L 365, 21.12.2006, p. 52 .]

Textual Amendments

F1 Substituted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1212/2012 of 17 December 2012 amending Regulations (EC) No 2535/2001, (EC) No 917/2004, (EC) No 382/2008, (EC) No 748/2008, (EC) No 810/2008 and (EC) No 610/2009 as regards the notification obligations within the common organisation of agricultural markets.

F5 Inserted by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 1212/2012 of 17 December 2012 amending Regulations (EC) No 2535/2001, (EC) No 917/2004, (EC) No 382/2008, (EC) No 748/2008, (EC) No 810/2008 and (EC) No 610/2009 as regards the notification obligations within the common organisation of agricultural markets.

F6 Substituted by Commission Regulation (EC) No 1913/2006 of 20 December 2006 laying down detailed rules for the application of the agrimonetary system for the euro in agriculture and amending certain regulations.