Explanatory Memorandum to COM(2014)703 - 7th financial report from the Commission to Parliament and Council on the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) 2013 financial year - Main contents
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| source | COM(2014)703  |
| date | 19-11-2014 |
REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT AND THE COUNCIL 7th FINANCIAL REPORT FROM THE COMMISSION TO THE EUROPEAN PARLIAMENT and the COUNCIL on the EUROPEAN AGRICULTURAL FUND FOR RURAL DEVELOPMENT (EAFRD) 2013 FINANCIAL YEAR /* COM/2014/0703 final */
Contents
- Table of Contents
- 1............ Budget procedure. 3
- 1.1......... Draft Budget (DB) 2013. 3
- 1.2......... The adoption of the 2013 Budget 3
- 1.3......... The adoption of the Amending Budgets. 4
- 2............ Management of appropriations. 4
- 2.1......... Management of Commitment appropriations. 4
- 2.1.1...... EAFRD operational programmes. 4
- 2.1.2...... Technical assistance. 4
- 2.2......... Management of payment appropriations. 4
- 2.2.1...... EAFRD operational programmes. 4
- 2.2.2...... Technical assistance. 5
- 3............ Implementation of the 2013 EAFRD budget. 5
- 3.1......... Introduction. 5
- 3.2......... Implementation of commitment appropriations. 5
- 3.2.1...... EAFRD operational programmes. 5
- 3.2.2...... Technical assistance. 6
- 3.3......... Implementation of payment appropriations. 7
- 3.3.1...... EAFRD operational programmes. 7
- 3.3.2...... Technical assistance. 11
- 3.4......... Analysis of expenditure declared by axis and by measure. 11
- 3.5......... Implementation of EAFRD programmes. 13
- 1. Budget procedure
- 1.1. Draft Budget (DB) 2013
- Table 1
- 1.2. The adoption of the 2013 Budget
- Table 2
- 1.3. The adoption of the Amending Budgets
- 2. Management of appropriations
- 2.1. Management of Commitment appropriations
- 2.1.1. EAFRD operational programmes
- Table 3
- Appropriations at the beginning of 14 788 920 797
- 2.1.2. Technical assistance
- 2.2. Management of payment appropriations
- 2.2.1. EAFRD operational programmes
- Table 4
- Appropriations at the beginning of 12 488 675 553
- Amending budget No. 299 147 246
- Appropriations available in 13 031 899 663
- 2.2.2. Technical assistance
- 3. Implementation of the 2013 EAFRD budget
- 3.1. Introduction
- 3.2. Implementation of commitment appropriations
- 3.2.1. EAFRD operational programmes
- Table 5
- 3.2.2. Technical assistance
- Table 6
- 3.3. Implementation of payment appropriations
- 3.3.1. EAFRD operational programmes
- Table 7
- Graph 1
- Table 8
- Table 9
- 3.3.2. Technical assistance
- Table 10
- 3.4. Analysis of expenditure declared by axis and by measure
- Table 11
- compared with Financial Plans*
- 3.5. Implementation of EAFRD programmes
The 2013 Draft Budget (DB) was adopted by the Commission and proposed to the Budgetary Authority on 15 April 2012.
The Draft Budget for the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) under heading 2 of the Financial Framework 2007-2013 totalled EUR 14 803 million in commitment appropriations and EUR 12 744 million in payment appropriations.
Budget Item| Commitment appropriations (in EUR)| Payment appropriations (in EUR)
05.040501 (Rural dev. programmes)| 14 788 920 12 735 000 000
05.040502 (Technical assistance)| 14 535 8 563 000
The Council adopted its position on the 2013 Draft Budget on 25 July 2012. Payment appropriations for EAFRD programmes were reduced by EUR 100 million as compared to the Commission's DB while commitments remained unchanged. The European Parliament adopted its position on 23 October 2012 whereby it restored the Commission's proposal by increasing payment appropriations by EUR 100 million. The Conciliation procedure did not result in an agreement between the two institutions. Therefore the Commission was requested to submit a new Draft Budget that was adopted on 23 November 2012.
The new Draft Budget was approved by the Parliament in a vote on 12 December 2012. The voted budget for the EAFRD in chapter 05 04 amounted to EUR 14 803 million in commitment appropriations and EUR 12 497 million in payment appropriations.
Budget Item| Commitment appropriations (in EUR)| Payment appropriations (in EUR)
05.040501 (Rural dev. programmes)| 14 788 920 12 488 675 553
05.040502 (Technical assistance)| 14 535 8 463 833
In March 2013 the Commission adopted the Draft Amending Budget No 2 due to a clearly identified lack of available payment appropriations. The budgetary authority approved only part of the amounts requested for EAFRD 2007-2013 programmes in the Amending Budget No 2 on 11 September 2013. Additional payment appropriations were requested in Draft Amending Budget No 8, adopted by the Commission on 25 September 2013. In this amending budget part of the total amount requested was channelled towards the closure of the older programmes. The budgetary authority approved it on 19 November 2013. The total amount of the two amending budgets made available for EAFRD 2007-2013 programmes amounted to EUR 338 million.
In 2013 the available commitment appropriations for EAFRD programmes amounted in total to EUR 14 789 million. This amount was entirely committed during the year.
Management of commitment appropriations in 2013 – EAFRD| Budget Item 05.040501 (amounts in EUR)
Carryover from -
Appropriations available in 14 788 920 797
Appropriations used in 14 788 920 797
Article 69(2) of Council regulation (EC) No 1698/2005 stipulates that 0.25% of the resources for Community support to rural development shall be devoted to technical assistance for the Commission. In the 2013 budget, the initial amount available for this purpose was EUR 14.5 million. Of this, EUR 4.5 million were redeployed to other items of the budget. At the end of 2013, the total amount committed was EUR 7.6 million.
In 2013 the payment appropriations of the voted budget amounted to EUR 12 489 million. In addition, the assigned revenue (recoveries) collected during the year amounted to EUR 212.2 million. The monitoring of the implementation of the budget and the analysis of the expenditure forecasts submitted by Member States in 2013 revealed an additional need of EUR 338 million in payment appropriations. This amount was made available with the Amending Budgets No 2 and No 8.
The total amount paid to Member States for EAFRD programmes in 2013 reached EUR 12 951 million, thus ensuring the full consumption of the voted payment appropriations available in the year. EUR 80 million of assigned revenue were carried over to 2014.
Management of payment appropriations in 2013 – EAFRD| Budget Item 05.040501 (amounts in EUR)
Transfer to older programmes| -7 215 906
Amending budget No. 39 101 515
Recoveries (assigned revenue)| 212 191 255
Appropriations used in 12 951 405 528
In the 2013 budget, the amount of payment appropriations was EUR 8.5 million. At the end of the year, the total amount of payments was EUR 6.6 million while EUR 1.8 million were redeployed to other items of the budget, leaving only a minor amount unused.
The last commitments of the programming period 2007-2013 were made in financial year 2013. As regards payments, the pace of the implementation of rural development programmes recorded in 2013 continued at high level even though there is a substantial variability as regards the implementation levels of the different programmes. For some of them the continued impact of the economic and financial crisis hindered the implementation process. Nonetheless, it has to be noted that the 2013 execution was almost as high as the 2012 execution, the highest so far for the rural development programmes in this programming period.
Table 5 shows the amounts committed per Member State in 2013 and the allocation established by Commission decision 2006/636/EC (modification of April 2010 still in force in 2013).
In 2013, the commitment appropriations available for EAFRD programmes, EUR 14 789 million, coincide with the annual allocation as there was no carryover from the previous year. All the available appropriations were committed (EUR 14 789 million).
Commission Decision 2006/636/EC (version in force) vs. the amounts committed end of 2013:
Budget item: 05.|| (in EUR)
MS| Commission Decision 2006/636/EC – EU funds Amounts carried over for commitment in Amounts committed in the budget year 2013
|| (a)| (b)| (c=a+b)
AT| 532 956 -| 532 956 948
BE| 77 776 -| 77 776 632
BG| 395 699 -| 395 699 781
CY| 21 037 -| 21 037 942
CZ| 424 262 -| 424 262 250
DE| 1 429 714 -| 1 429 714 950
DK| 106 488 -| 106 488 551
EE| 113 302 -| 113 302 602
ES| 1 284 264 -| 1 284 264 263
FI| 288 617 -| 288 617 053
FR| 1 278 994 -| 1 278 994 332
GR| 671 747 -| 671 747 957
HU| 584 609 -| 584 609 743
IE| 351 503 -| 351 503 589
IT| 1 441 205 -| 1 441 205 996
LT| 253 898 -| 253 898 173
LU| 13 212 -| 13 212 084
LV| 151 198 -| 151 198 432
MT| 10 663 -| 10 663 325
NL| 102 750 -| 102 750 233
PL| 1 851 146 -| 1 851 146 247
PT| 589 872 -| 589 872 156
RO| 1 356 173 -| 1 356 173 250
SE| 275 759 -| 275 759 282
SI| 113 031 -| 113 031 296
SK| 319 809 -| 319 809 578
UK| 749 224 -| 749 224 152
Total| 14 788 920 -| 14 788 920 797
Table 6 shows the commitment appropriations for technical assistance consumed in 2013. The most important part relates to European Network for Rural Development.
Technical assistance – Implementation of commitment appropriations
Budget Item: 05.| (in EUR)
Description| Amount committed
Contact point of the European Network for rural Development (ENRD)| 3 680 715
Expert groups / Coordination committee / Seminars (ENRD)| 993 109
Information technology| 2 234 949
Protection of symbols| 120 000
Experts committee on the evaluation of rural development programmes| 200 000
Publications| 332 724
Total| 7 561 497
Almost all the payments appropriations made available in the voted and in the amending budgets 2013, increased with an assigned revenue from recoveries by EUR 212.2 million, were used. Only EUR 80 million of assigned revenue were carried over to 2014. Therefore at the end of 2013, the total amount paid for EAFRD programmes was EUR 12 951 million. Payments made in 2013 were only slightly below the payments in 2012 (-1.3%).
The table below shows the breakdown of payments made in 2013 by declaration period:
Payments 2013 – EAFRD operational programmes million EUR
Reimbursement of payment claims Q2 1.36
Reimbursement of payment claims Q3 101.41
Reimbursement of payment claims Q4 4 660.86
Reimbursement of payment claims Q1 2 816.76
Reimbursement of payment claims Q2 2 034.25
Reimbursement of payment claims Q3 3 336.77
Total 12 951.41
The complete reimbursement of the 3rd quarter 2013 declarations of expenditure for some EAFRD programmes was not possible as total declared payments reached 95% of commitments. The amount involved was EUR 108.1 million.
The monthly consumption of payment appropriations during the year (January to December 2013) is represented in the graph below. The rhythm of consumption is linked to the calendar for sending the four payment declarations (31 January, 30 April, 31 July and 10 November for the payment claims corresponding respectively to Q4 2012, Q1 2013, Q2 2013 and Q3 2013) in accordance with article 16(2) of Regulation (EC) No 883/2006.
The graph shows that the usual rhytm of monthly payments was influenced by the lack of cash available to make effective payments. It imposed a delay on some reimbursements in the first part of 2013 (January to June) and at the end of the year.
The breakdown per Member State and per declaration period of the amounts paid by the Commission in budget year 2013 is shown in table 8.
Payments effectively made between 01/01/2013 and 31/12/2013 per declaration of expenditure| (in EUR)
MS| Q2 Q3 Q4 Q1 Q2 Q3 Grand Total
AT|| 836 331 814 127 376 39 750 27 148 526 926 131
BE| 1 356 12 522 7 950 7 798 18 797 4 294 52 721 009
BG|| 1 669 283 363 23 677 36 395 51 535 396 641 691
CY|| 119 8 399 371 10 335 3 807 23 033 218
CZ|| 1 419 78 076 190 292 69 636 33 650 373 075 923
DE|| 15 009 553 463 166 761 125 692 406 432 1 267 359 343
DK|| 544 20 819 11 508 7 885 21 761 62 519 910
EE|| 690 22 396 58 167 23 229 22 560 127 044 772
ES|| 5 250 436 330 156 449 172 123 268 163 1 038 317 781
FI|| 6 178 94 976 23 490 26 269 189 316 340 230 873
FR|| 11 095 379 275 156 574 109 911 341 945 998 803 101
GR||| 34 521 18 579 23 489 149 202 225 793 111
HU|| 2 738 155 530 141 527 96 526 94 911 491 234 841
IE||| 138 650 39 835 33 102 45 383 256 972 589
IT|| 10 817 615 765 177 179 201 988 269 382 1 275 133 647
LT|| 1 855 56 882 91 036 60 142 43 010 252 927 822
LU|| 18 3 228 5 102 772 972 10 094 904
LV|| 1 585 71 590 44 718 30 626 35 512 184 032 828
MT|| 59 4 824 1 069 1 789 1 938 9 682 192
NL|| 898 26 105 13 985 16 642 41 854 99 485 140
PL|| 14 777 525 534 592 656 374 453 313 551 1 820 972 541
PT||| 178 295 88 154 147 628 242 371 656 450 463
RO||| 211 380 402 188 123 832 454 235 1 191 637 130
SE|| 4 894 85 504 38 310 25 814 28 347 182 871 555
SI|| 544 52 726 10 743 44 473 18 147 126 635 115
SK|| 1 956 100 475 32 067 32 127 30 682 197 308 952
UK|| 5 932 182 971 197 138 180 808 196 647 763 498 948
Total| 1 356 101 413 4 660 855 2 816 763 2 034 246 3 336 769 12 951 405 528
The total amount paid in 2013 EUR 12 951 million relates to reimbursements only. No advances were paid in 2013.
Table 9 compares, for each Member State, the EAFRD payments made in 2013 with the payments in 2012. The total payments decreased by 1.3% (EUR 12.95 billion vs. 13.12 billion).
Payments made to Member States - Comparison 2013 vs|| (in EUR)|
MS| Difference 2013 vs. 2012
Interim payments| Prefinancing| Total| Interim payments| Prefinancing| Total| (in EUR)| (in %)
AT| 535 931 -| 535 931 526 926 -| 526 926 -9 005 -1,68%
BE| 68 498 -| 68 498 52 721 -| 52 721 -15 777 -23,03%
BG| 306 792 -| 306 792 396 641 -| 396 641 89 849 29,29%
CY| 19 857 -| 19 857 23 033 -| 23 033 3 175 15,99%
CZ| 418 986 -| 418 986 373 075 -| 373 075 -45 910 -10,96%
DE| 1 311 026 -| 1 311 026 1 267 359 -| 1 267 359 -43 667 -3,33%
DK| 62 641 -| 62 641 62 519 -| 62 519 -121 -0,19%
EE| 129 243 -| 129 243 127 044 -| 127 044 -2 198 -1,70%
ES| 821 119 -| 821 119 1 038 317 -| 1 038 317 217 197 26,45%
FI| 302 322 -| 302 322 340 230 -| 340 230 37 908 12,54%
FR| 933 171 -| 933 171 998 803 -| 998 803 65 631 7,03%
GR| 330 814 -| 330 814 225 793 -| 225 793 -105 021 -31,75%
HU| 441 382 -| 441 382 491 234 -| 491 234 49 852 11,29%
IE| 325 682 -| 325 682 256 972 -| 256 972 -68 710 -21,10%
IT| 1 307 832 -| 1 307 832 1 275 133 -| 1 275 133 -32 699 -2,50%
LT| 235 267 -| 235 267 252 927 -| 252 927 17 660 7,51%
LU| 10 362 -| 10 362 10 094 -| 10 094 -267 -2,58%
LV| 213 228 -| 213 228 184 032 -| 184 032 -29 195 -13,69%
MT| 8 942 -| 8 942 9 682 -| 9 682 739 8,27%
NL| 102 291 -| 102 291 99 485 -| 99 485 -2 805 -2,74%
PL| 2 027 038 -| 2 027 038 1 820 972 -| 1 820 972 -206 066 -10,17%
PT| 679 279 -| 679 279 656 450 -| 656 450 -22 828 -3,36%
RO| 1 101 919 -| 1 101 919 1 191 637 -| 1 191 637 89 717 8,14%
SE| 293 194 -| 293 194 182 871 -| 182 871 -110 322 -37,63%
SI| 122 065 -| 122 065 126 635 -| 126 635 4 569 3,74%
SK| 272 943 -| 272 943 197 308 -| 197 308 -75 634 -27,71%
UK| 734 754 -| 734 754 763 498 -| 763 498 28 744 3,91%
Total| 13 116 592 -| 13 116 592 12 951 405 -| 12 951 405 -165 186 -1,26%
In the 2013 budget the amount for payment appropriations was EUR 6.6 million. Table 10 hereafter presents the payments grouped by major directions. The most important part is related to European Network for Rural Development.
Technical assistance – Implementation of payment appropriations
Budget Item: 05.| (in EUR)
Description| Amount paid
Contact point of the European Network for Rural Development (ENRD)| 4 587 788
Expert groups / Coordination committee / Seminars (ENRD)| 610 428
Information technology| 983 786
Experts committee on the evaluation of rural development programmes| 88 323
Protection of symbols| 108 000
Publications| 177 499
Total| 6 555 824
Table 11 shows the payment claims declared by Member state and by axis/measure for rural development in 2013 (Q4 2012 to Q3 2013), the cumulative declared expenditure from 2007 to 2013 (Q4 2006 to Q3 2013) and also the financial plans of EAFRD programmes (2007-2013; EU27).
In 2013, the expenditure continues to be concentrated in axis 2 (47.9%), followed by axis 1 with 29.8%, axis 3 with 14.2% and axis 4 with 6.6%. This repartition of expenditure still diverges somewhat from the repartition in the financial plans for the 2007-2013 programming period (32.7%, 45.5%, 13.5% and 6.3% for axis 1 to 4 respectively).
Axis 2 measures mainly involve annual payments (e.g. agro-environmental measures) whilst Axis 1, 3 and, to a lesser extent, Axis 4 mainly relate to multi-annual measures that require longer proceedings for their approval and implementation (e.g. investment projects).
EAFRD declared expenditure 2013 (Q4 2012-Q3 2013) & Total cumulative expenditure (Q4 2006 to Q3 2013)
|| Declared expenditure 2013 (Q4 2012 to Q3 2013)| Cumulative declared expenditure (Q4 2006 to Q3 2013)| Financial Plans 2007-2013
EAFRD Axis / Measure| (million EUR)| (%)| (million EUR)| (%)| (million EUR)| (%)
111 Vocational training and information actions| 132,| 1,0%| 518,| 0,8%| 947,| 1,0%
112 Setting up of young farmers| 392,| 3,0%| 2096,| 3,2%| 2 841,| 3,0%
113 Early retirement| 349,| 2,7%| 2051,| 3,1%| 2 491,| 2,6%
114 Use of advisory services| 26,| 0,2%| 89,| 0,1%| 198,| 0,2%
115 Setting up of management, relief and ....| 5,| 0,0%| 24,| 0,0%| 50,| 0,1%
121 Modernisation of agricultural holdings| 1470,| 11,3%| 8203,| 12,5%| 11 636,| 12,1%
122 Improvement of the economic value of forest| 44,| 0,3%| 211,| 0,3%| 369,| 0,4%
123 Adding value to agricultural and forestry...| 576,| 4,4%| 2991,| 4,5%| 5 540,| 5,8%
124 Cooperation for development of new products| 37,| 0,3%| 113,| 0,2%| 295,| 0,3%
125 Infrastructure related to the development …| 591,| 4,5%| 2338,| 3,6%| 4 786,| 5,0%
126 Restoring agricultural production potential| 78,| 0,6%| 348,| 0,5%| 654,| 0,7%
131 Meeting standards based on Community...| 3,| 0,0%| 59,| 0,1%| 69,| 0,1%
132 Participation of farmers in food quality…| 16,| 0,1%| 65,| 0,1%| 131,| 0,1%
133 Information and promotion activities| 20,| 0,2%| 66,| 0,1%| 167,| 0,2%
141 Semi-subsistence farming| 73,| 0,6%| 609,| 0,9%| 807,| 0,8%
142 Producer groups| 34,| 0,3%| 153,| 0,2%| 240,| 0,3%
143 Direct Payment (BG + RO)| 1,| 0,0%| 7,| 0,0%| 15,| 0,0%
144 Holdings undergoing restructuring| 14,| 0,1%| 146,| 0,2%| 200,| 0,2%
Axis 3 868,| 29,8%| 20 095,| 30,5%| 31 440,| 32,7%
211 Natural handicap payments to farmers in ...| 1079,| 8,3%| 6 265,| 9,5%| 6 725,| 7,0%
212 Payments to farmers in areas with handicaps...| 993,| 7,6%| 6 357,| 9,7%| 7 500,| 7,8%
213 Natura 2000 payments and payments linked ..| 40,| 0,3%| 165,| 0,3%| 583,| 0,6%
214 Agri-environment payments| 3338,| 25,7%| 18 599,| 28,2%| 22 929,| 23,9%
215 Animal welfare payments| 95,| 0,7%| 399,| 0,6%| 885,| 0,9%
216 Non-productive investments| 113,| 0,9%| 328,| 0,5%| 544,| 0,6%
221 First afforestation of agricultural land| 194,| 1,5%| 1 225,| 1,9%| 1 710,| 1,8%
222 First establishment of agroforestry systems...| 0,| 0,0%| 0,| 0,0%| 10,| 0,0%
223 First afforestation of non-agricultural land| 25,| 0,2%| 116,| 0,2%| 256,| 0,3%
224 Natura 2000 payments| 15,| 0,1%| 33,| 0,1%| 74,| 0,1%
225 Forest-environment payments| 11,| 0,1%| 40,| 0,1%| 134,| 0,1%
226 Restoring forestry potential and …| 199,| 1,5%| 962,| 1,5%| 1 622,| 1,7%
227 Non-productive investments| 120,| 0,9%| 380,| 0,6%| 772,| 0,8%
Axis 6 227,| 47,9%| 34 874,| 53,0%| 43 751,| 45,5%
311 Diversification into non-agricultural activities| 183,| 1,4%| 714,| 1,1%| 1 236,| 1,3%
312 Business creation and development| 249,| 1,9%| 881,| 1,3%| 2 046,| 2,1%
313 Encouragement of tourism activities| 140,| 1,1%| 482,| 0,7%| 1 227,| 1,3%
321 Basic services for the economy and rural …| 561,| 4,3%| 1963,| 3,0%| 3 649,| 3,8%
322 Village renewal and development| 503,| 3,9%| 2299,| 3,5%| 3 338,| 3,5%
323 Conservation and upgrading of the rural....| 183,| 1,4%| 682,| 1,0%| 1 201,| 1,2%
331 Training and information| 15,| 0,1%| 58,| 0,1%| 112,| 0,1%
341 Skills acquisition, animation and implement...| 9,| 0,1%| 73,| 0,1%| 121,| 0,1%
Axis 1 847,| 14,2%| 7 154,| 10,9%| 12 934,| 13,5%
411 Implementing local development strategies...| 61,| 0,5%| 145,| 0,2%| 530,| 0,6%
412 Implementing local development strategies...| 10,| 0,1%| 21,| 0,0%| 152,| 0,2%
413 Implementing local development strategies....| 624,| 4,8%| 1707,| 2,6%| 4143,| 4,3%
421 Implementing cooperation projects| 19,| 0,1%| 47,| 0,1%| 232,| 0,2%
431 Running the local action group, acquiring ...| 148,| 1,1%| 545,| 0,8%| 973,| 1,0%
Axis 863,| 6,6%| 2467,| 3,7%| 6 033,| 6,3%
511 Technical Assistance| 191,| 1,5%| 833,| 1,3%| 1533,| 1,6%
611 BG RO Direct Payments| -0,| 0,0%| 437,| 0,7%| 437,| 0,5%
Grand total| 12 997,| 100,0%| 65 861,| 100,0%| 96 130,| 100,0%
*Member States declare their expenditure quarterly. However for year n, Q4 declarations are submitted in January of year n+1. Consequently, the corresponding reimbursements by the Commission to the Member States in year n go from Q4 of year n-1 until Q3 of year n.
Graph 2 presents the financial implementation rate of rural development programmes per Member State: payments from the beginning of the programming period to 2013, including Q4 2013 that is reimbursed in financial year 2014, compared with the 2007-2013 commitments according to the financial plan. As 2013 was the last year when commitments were made, the implementation rate equals to the absorption rate (payments made from the beginning of the programming period compared to the total 2007-2013 allocation). The average EAFRD financial implementation rate for all EAFRD programmes is 80%.
Graph 2 shows that most Member States have absorbed more than 80% of the 2007-2013 commitments.
Until the end of 2013 the application of the N+2 rule has resulted in relatively small decommitments for the rural development programmes. Those decommmitments amount in total to EUR 164.6 million and relate to years 2008, 2009 and 2010. Decommitments in relation to year 2011 will be made in 2014.