This Decision replaces Annex I to Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/655 with a new allocation table for school fruit and vegetables and school milk for school year 2023/2024.
| Official Journal of the European Union | EN L series ---|---|--- * * * | 2024/2596 | 7.10.2024 ---|---|--- COMMISSION IMPLEMENTING DECISION (EU) 2024/2596 of 4 October 2024 amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/655 as regards the definitive allocation of Union aid to Member States for school fruit and vegetables and for school milk for the period from 1 August 2023 to 31 July 2024 (notified under document C(2024) 6784) THE EUROPEAN COMMISSION, Having regard to the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union, Having regard to Council Regulation (EU) No 1370/2013 of 16 December 2013 determining measures on fixing certain aids and refunds related to the common organisations of the markets in agricultural products (1), and in particular Article 5(6) thereof, Whereas: (1) | Pursuant to Article 3 of Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/39 (2), Member States wishing to participate in the Union aid scheme for the supply of fruit and vegetables, bananas and milk in educational establishments (‘the school scheme’) are to submit to the Commission by 31 January each year their request for Union aid relating to the next school year and, if applicable, update the request for Union aid relating to the ongoing school year. ---|--- (2) | Based on the information Member States notified by 31 January 2023, Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/655 (3) fixed the definitive allocation of Union aid for school fruit and vegetables and for school milk among Member States wishing to participate in the school scheme for the period from 1 August 2023 to 31 July 2024. ---|--- (3) | In the notifications submitted by 31 August 2024 pursuant to Article 6 of Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/39, Portugal and Romania notified transfers between the definitive allocation for school fruit and vegetables and the definitive allocation for school milk. ---|--- (4) | Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/655 should therefore be amended accordingly. ---|--- (5) | The measures provided for in this Decision are in accordance with the opinion of the Committee for the Common Organisation of the Agricultural Markets, ---|--- HAS ADOPTED THIS DECISION: Article 1 Annex I to Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/655 is replaced by the text set out in the Annex to this Decision. Article 2 This Decision is addressed to the Member States. Done at Brussels, 4 October 2024. For the Commission Janusz WOJCIECHOWSKI Member of the Commission * * * (1) OJ L 346, 20.12.2013, p. 12, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2013/1370/oj. (2) Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2017/39 of 3 November 2016 on rules for the application of Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to Union aid for the supply of fruit and vegetables, bananas and milk in educational establishments (OJ L 5, 10.1.2017, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_impl/2017/39/oj). (3) Commission Implementing Decision (EU) 2023/655 of 10 March 2023 fixing the definitive allocation of Union aid to Member States for school fruit and vegetables and for school milk for the period from 1 August 2023 to 31 July 2024 and amending Implementing Decision (EU) 2022/493 (OJ L 81, 21.3.2023, p. 37, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2023/655/oj). * * * ANNEX ‘ANNEX I School year 2023/2024 Member State | Definitive allocation for school fruit and vegetables in EUR | Definitive allocation for school milk in EUR ---|---|--- Belgium | 3 815 785 | 1 433 417 Bulgaria | 2 185 256 | 1 800 090 Czechia | 3 507 158 | 3 124 223 Denmark | 1 739 147 | 1 632 431 Germany | 20 984 737 | 9 628 111 Estonia | 416 641 | 764 787 Ireland | 1 986 571 | 873 414 Greece | 3 149 503 | 1 464 086 Spain | 13 751 007 | 5 736 134 France | 18 176 401 | 14 523 309 Croatia | 1 322 043 | 610 533 Italy | 15 293 816 | 6 910 347 Cyprus | 300 828 | 252 652 Latvia | 677 025 | 882 003 Lithuania | 932 083 | 1 256 256 Luxembourg | 299 593 | 197 646 Hungary | 3 588 755 | 2 376 098 Malta | 314 320 | 170 050 Netherlands | 5 776 465 | 932 699 Austria | 2 439 606 | 1 072 595 Poland | 12 565 488 | 12 791 591 Portugal | 2 244 412 | 1 861 261 Romania | 4 942 588,80 | 12 669 381,20 Slovenia | 689 729 | 305 638 Slovakia | 1 932 221 | 1 698 579 Finland | 1 672 943 | 2 731 455 Sweden | 0 | 8 401 227 Total | 124 704 121,80 | 96 100 013,20 ’ * * * ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/dec_impl/2024/2596/oj ISSN 1977-0677 (electronic edition) * * *