(1)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 795/2004 of 21 April 2004 laying down detailed rules for the implementation of the single payment scheme provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003 establishing common rules for direct support schemes under the common agricultural policy and establishing certain support schemes for farmers (2) introduces the implementing rules for the single payment scheme as from 2005.

(2)

Annex I to Regulation (EC) No 795/2004 fixes the date from which the growing of secondary crops may be temporarily allowed in regions where cereals are usually harvested sooner for climatic reasons as referred to in Article 51(b) of Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003. At the request of Spain and France, that date should be fixed for those Member States.

(3)

An error was made when new paragraphs were added to Article 48a of Regulation (EC) No 795/2004. Commission Regulation (EC) No 1701/2005 (3) and Commission Regulation (EC) No 2183/2005 (4) both added a paragraph 10. In the interests of clarity, those paragraphs whose numbering was affected should be replaced by correctly numbered paragraphs, since they could lead to confusion.

(4)

An error was also made in the wording of the paragraph 10 added by Regulation (EC) No 2183/2005, which authorises Malta and Slovenia to grant aid for olive groves in 2006. The maximum amounts provided for in that paragraph are not correct, since these should be the amounts that should have been calculated for the single payment. They should therefore correspond to the olive oil component for those Member States for 2006 given in Annex VIIIa to Regulation (EC) No 1782/2003. The above provision should therefore be amended.

(5)

Regulation (EC) No 795/2004 should therefore be amended and corrected accordingly.

(6)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Direct Payments,