Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/1366 of 11 May 2015 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to aid in the apiculture sector

COMMISSION DELEGATED REGULATION (EU) 2015/1366

of 11 May 2015

supplementing Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to aid in the apiculture sector

Article 1

Beehives

For the purposes of this Regulation, the term ‘beehive’ means the unit containing a honeybee colony used for the production of honey, other apiculture products or honeybee breeding material, and all the elements necessary for its survival.

Article 2

Method to determine the number of beehives

Member States submitting national programmes for the apiculture sector as referred to in Article 55 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 (‘apiculture programmes’) shall have a reliable method to determine, between 1 September and 31 December each year, the number of beehives ready for wintering present in their territory.

Article 3

Notification of the number of beehives

From 2017, Member States submitting apiculture programmes shall notify to the Commission each year the number of beehives in their territory ready for wintering as determined in accordance with the method referred to in Article 2.

Article 4

Union contribution to apiculture programmes

The Union contribution to apiculture programmes shall be allocated to Member States with apiculture programmes in proportion to the average total number of beehives notified by such Member States in accordance with Article 3 during the two calendar years immediately preceding the notification to the Commission of the apiculture programmes. The minimum Union contribution shall be EUR 25 000 per apiculture programme.

By way of derogation from the first paragraph, the Union contribution to apiculture programmes in the years 2021 and 2022 shall be allocated to Member States with apiculture programmes on the basis of the number of beehives communicated in 2013 by those Member States in their respective 2014-2016 apiculture programmes, adjusted by the applications submitted by Member States for allocation in the 2017-2019 programming period. The minimum Union contribution shall be EUR 25 000 per apiculture programme.

Article 5

Avoidance of double funding

Member States shall ensure that there is no double funding of apiculture programmes under aid in the apiculture sector pursuant to Article 55 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 and rural development support pursuant to Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013.

Article 6

Operative event for the exchange rate

For the amounts paid as aid in the apiculture sector pursuant to Article 55 of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013, the operative event for the exchange rate shall be that referred to in Article 34(1) of Delegated Regulation (EU) No 907/2014.

Article 7

Repeal

Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 is repealed.

However, Regulation (EC) No 917/2004 shall continue to apply to the apiculture programmes approved before 1 January 2014 until those programmes come to an end.

Article 8

Transitional measures

Article 9

Entry into force

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.