Commission Regulation (EC) No 963/2001 of 17 May 2001 on detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1259/1999 as regards the additional Community support and the transmission of information to the Commission

Article 1

Additional Community support

The additional Community support to one or more of the four measures referred to in Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1259/1999 shall consist in a support granted:

(a) to additional beneficiaries of existing measures included in rural development programming documents as referred to in Article 44(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999; and/or,

(b) to additional measures to be included in rural development programming documents.

The percentage of Community contribution to such additional support shall be the same as that provided in the rural development programming document for the measure concerned.

Article 2

Transmission of information to the Commission

Member States shall communicate to the Commission in respect of Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1259/1999, and in respect of each of the sectors listed in the Annex to that Regulation:

(a) an analysis of the situation of the agricultural land used and the production concerned with reference to the potential environmental effects;

(b) a detailed description of the appropriate environmental measures envisaged by Article 3(1) of that Regulation which they have taken in the light of the analysis referred to in point (a);

(c) a detailed description of the penalties which they have decided in accordance with Article 3(2) of that Regulation.

Article 3

Annual report

Each progress report shall contain the following information:

(a) a summary of available physical and financial data on the implementation of the measures and any penalties as referred to in Article 2(1), (2) and (3) followed by an analysis of this data including details of any major problems incurred;

(b) an assessment of progress towards meeting the stated operational objectives, based on the information provided under point (a).

Where the report is not received by 30 April each year or is obviously incomplete, the Commission shall suspend for the Member States concerned the payment of the advance relating to expenditure under subheading 1A of the EAGGF Guarantee Section as follows:

(a) if the report is not received by 15 May or is obviously incomplete at this date, an amount equivalent to the amounts deducted pursuant to Article 3(2) and Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1259/1999 between 1 May and 15 October of the previous year shall be withheld from the advances to be paid at the beginning of June;

(b) if the report is received after 15 June or is obviously incomplete after this date, an amount equivalent to the amounts deducted pursuant to Article 3(2) and Article 4 of Regulation (EC) No 1259/1999 between 16 October and 30 April shall be withheld from the advances to be paid at the beginning of July.

Article 4

Entry into force

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.