Commission Regulation (EC) No. 2603/1999 laying down rules for the transition to the rural development support provided for by Council Regulation (EC) 1257/1999.

This Regulation lays down specific measures to facilitate the transition from the system in force to the one established by Regulation (EC) No. 1257/1999. The Commission shall not approve in the framework of Regulations repealed by article 55(1) of Regulation (EC) No. 1257/1999 any measure or any amendment thereto whose duration extends beyond 31 December 1999, unless immediate approval is required for imperative reasons.
Expenditure shall be eligible for support from the EAGGF Guarantee Section only if it has actually been paid to the individual beneficiary of a rural development support measure after 31 December 1999 and after the date on which the rural development plan or any amendment to that plan relevant for the measure concerned has been submitted or communicated to the Commission. Member States may provide in their rural development plans that compensatory allowances may continue to be granted on the basis of livestock numbers for payments due in relation to the year 2000. In this case, the maximum compensatory allowance referred to in the Annex to Regulation (EC) No 1257/1999 applies per livestock unit.