2003/553/EC: Commission Decision of 23 July 2003 on the eligibility of expenditure to be incurred by certain Member States in 2003 for the collection and management of the data needed to conduct the common fisheries policy (notified under document number C(2003) 2629)

• Articles: 6

Article 1

This Decision establishes for 2003 the amount of the eligible expenditure for each Member State and the rates of the Community financial contribution for the collection and management of the data needed to conduct the common fisheries policy.

Article 2

Expenditure incurred in collecting and managing the data needed to conduct the common fisheries policy, as set out in Annex I, shall qualify for a financial contribution up to 50 % of the eligible expenditure within the minimum programme.

Article 3

Expenditure incurred in collecting and managing the data needed to conduct the common fisheries policy, as set out in Annex II, shall qualify for a financial contribution up to 35 % of the eligible expenditure within the extended programme.

Article 4

1. The Community shall pay a first instalment of 50 % of the financial contribution set out in Annexes I and II.

2. A second instalment will be delivered in 2004, after the reception and acceptance of a financial and a technical report provided for in Article 6(1)(b) of Decision 2000/439/EC.

Article 5

1. The euro exchange rate used to calculate the amounts eligible under this Decision shall be the rate in force in May 2002.

2. The expenditure declarations and applications for advances in national currency received from the Member States not participating in the third stage of economic and monetary union shall be converted into euro at the rate in force for the month in which those declarations and applications reach the Commission.

Article 6

This Decision is addressed to the Kingdom of Belgium, the Kingdom of Denmark, the Federal Republic of Germany, the Hellenic Republic, the Kingdom of Spain, the French Republic, Ireland, the Italian Republic, the Kingdom of the Netherlands, the Portuguese Republic, the Republic of Finland, the Kingdom of Sweden and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

Done at Brussels, 23 July 2003.

For the Commission

Franz Fischler

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 176, 15.7.2000, p. 42.

(2) OJ L 176, 15.7.2000, p. 1.

(3) OJ L 222, 17.8.2001, p. 53.

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