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having regard to the Commission delegated regulation (C(2021)00429),

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having regard to the Commission’s letter of 12 February 2021 asking Parliament to declare that it will raise no objections to the delegated regulation,

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having regard to the letter from the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development to the Chair of the Conference of Committee Chairs of 24 February 2021,

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having regard to Article 290 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union,

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having regard to Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (1), and in particular Article 56(1) and Article 227 thereof,

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having regard to Rule 111(6) of its Rules of Procedure,

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having regard to the recommendation for a decision of the Committee on Agriculture and Rural Development,

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having regard to the fact that no objections have been raised within the period laid down in the third and fourth indents of Rule 111(6) of its Rules of Procedure, which expired on 9 March 2021,

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whereas Regulation (EU) 2020/2220 of the European Parliament and of the Council (2) (the ‘Transitional Regulation’), which amended Regulation (EU) No 1308/2013 by extending the Union contributions to the apiculture programmes for the years 2021 and 2022, has only entered into force on 29 December 2020;

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whereas, for the period 2021-2027, the Commission had proposed to increase the Union contribution to the apiculture programmes to EUR 60 000 000 per year, with the Member States’ allocations set out in Annex VIII to the Commission proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council establishing rules on support for strategic plans to be drawn up by Member States under the common agricultural policy (CAP Strategic Plans) and financed by the European Agricultural Guarantee Fund (EAGF) and by the European Agricultural Fund for Rural Development (EAFRD) and repealing Regulation (EU) No 1305/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council and Regulation (EU) No 1307/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council (3); the basis for the allocation of the Union contribution to Member States in that Commission proposal was the allocation of Union funds for the 2017-2019 apiculture programmes, which in turn was made on the basis of the number of beehives communicated in 2013 by the Member States in their respective 2014-2016 apiculture programmes;

C.

whereas in order to ensure consistency with the above-mentioned Commission proposal COM(2018)0392, and in order to ensure coherence between the allocations for apiculture programmes for the years 2021 and 2022 and from 2023 onwards, and to provide certainty to Member States and facilitate the approval of apiculture programmes it is essential that this delegated regulation is published as soon as possible;

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