Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/1853 of 15 October 2015 providing for temporary exceptional aid to farmers in the livestock sectors
1. Union aid of a total amount of EUR 420 000 000 shall be available to Member States to provide targeted support to farmers in the beef and veal, milk and milk products, pigmeat and sheepmeat and goatmeat sectors (‘livestock sectors’).
Member States shall use the amounts available to them as set out in the Annex for measures taken on the basis of objective and non-discriminatory criteria, provided that the resulting payments do not cause distortion of competition.
The measures taken by the Member States shall aim at alleviating the economic consequences resulting from the market disturbances on farmers in the livestock sectors.
Member States shall ensure that, when farmers in the livestock sectors are not the direct beneficiaries of the payments, the economic benefit of the support is passed on to them in full.
Member States' expenditure in relation to the payments under this Regulation shall only be eligible for Union aid if the support has been paid by them by 30 June 2016 at the latest.
2. In respect of Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Croatia, Hungary, Poland, Romania, Sweden and the United Kingdom, the operative event for the exchange rate as regards the amounts set out in the Annex shall be the date of entry into force of this Regulation.
3. Support provided for in this Regulation may be cumulated with other support financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund and the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development.
Member States may grant additional support for the measures taken under Article 1 up to a maximum of 100 % of the corresponding amount as set out in the Annex, and under the same conditions of objectiveness, as laid down in Article 1.
Member States shall pay the additional support by 30 June 2016 at the latest.
Member States shall notify the Commission of the following:
(a)
without delay and no later than 31 December 2015, the objective criteria used to determine the methods for granting targeted support and the measures taken to avoid distortion of competition;
(b)
no later than 30 September 2016, the total amounts paid and the number and type of beneficiaries.
This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union .
Supplementary provisions
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ANNEX
Member State
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Belgium
13 049 568
Bulgaria
6 004 009
Czech Republic
11 155 561
Denmark
11 103 077
Germany
69 233 789
Estonia
7 561 692
Ireland
13 734 230
Greece
2 258 253
Spain
25 526 629
France
62 899 543
Croatia
1 812 383
Italy
25 017 897
Cyprus
354 997
Latvia
8 452 333
Lithuania
12 631 869
Luxembourg
669 120
Hungary
9 505 286
Malta
119 570
Netherlands
29 937 209
Austria
7 004 590
Poland
28 946 973
Portugal
4 764 178
Romania
11 145 958
Slovenia
1 368 433
Slovakia
2 464 247
Finland
8 985 522
Sweden
8 220 625
United Kingdom
36 072 462
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