Article 3

The EAGF shall finance in a context of shared management between the Member States and the Community the following expenditure, which shall be effected in accordance with Community law: refunds for the exportation of agricultural products to third countries; intervention measures to regulate agricultural markets; direct payments to farmers under the common agricultural policy; the Community's financial contribution to information and promotion measures for agricultural products on the internal market of the Community and in third countries, undertaken by Member States on the basis of programmes other than those referred to in Article 4 and selected by the Commission. The EAGF shall finance the following expenditure in a centralised manner and in accordance with Community legislation: the Community's financial contribution to specific veterinary measures, veterinary inspection measures, inspection measures for foodstuffs and animal feed, animal disease eradication and control programmes (veterinary measures) and plant-health measures; promotion of agricultural products, undertaken either directly by the Commission or via international organisations; measures, undertaken in accordance with Community legislation, to ensure the conservation, characterisation, collection and utilisation of genetic resources in agriculture; establishment and maintenance of agricultural accounting information systems; agricultural survey systems, including surveys on the structure of agricultural holdings; expenditure relating to fisheries markets.

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Source: EUR-Lex (Cellar) · retrieved 2026-11-09 · Text as adopted (Official Journal); later amendments are not incorporated in this text.