PUBLIC - Croatia, the War, and the Future

3. AGRICULTURE
(a) Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Part Three, Title III, Agriculture and
Fisheries
1. Public stocks held at the date of accession by Croatia and resulting from its market-support
policy shall be taken over by the Union at the value resulting from the application of Article
4(1)(d) and Annex VIII of Commission Regulation (EC) No 884/2006 of 21 June 2006 laying
down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 1290/2005 as regards
the financing by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) of intervention measures
in the form of public storage operations and the accounting of public storage operations by the
paying agencies of the Member States 1 . The said stocks shall be taken over only on condition
that public intervention for the products in question is operated in the Union and that the
stocks meet the Union intervention requirements.
2. For any stocks, private as well as public, in free circulation at the date of accession in Croatia
exceeding the level of what can be considered as normal carry-over of stock Croatia shall be
charged with a payment to the general budget of the European Union.
The amount of the payment shall be fixed at a level which reflects the cost related to the
effects of the surplus stock on the markets of agricultural products.
The level of the surplus stock shall be determined for each product taking into account the
characteristics of each product and the relevant markets as well as the Union legislation
applicable to it.
3. The stocks referred to in paragraph 1 shall be deducted from the quantity exceeding the
normal carry-over of stocks.
1 OJ L 171, 23.6.2006, p. 35 and OJ L 326 M, 10.12.2010, p. 70.
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