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COMMISSION REGULATION (EEC) No 2401/86

of 30 July 1986

fixing for the 1986/87 marketing year the minimum price to be paid to producers for unprocessed sultanas and currants and the amount of production aid for sultanas and currants

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Economic Community,

Having regard to the Act of Accession of Spain and Portugal,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 426/86 of 24 February 1986 on the common organization of the market in products processed from fruit and vegetables (1), as amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1838/86 (2), and in particular Articles 4 (4) and 5 (5) thereof,

Whereas Council Regulation (EEC) No 1277/84 of 8 May 1984 laying down general rules for the system of production aid for processed fruit and vegetables (3) contains provisions as to the methods for determining the production aid;

Whereas, under Article 4 (1) of Regulation (EEC) No 426/86, the minimum price to be paid to producers is to be determined on the basis, first, of the minimum price applying during the previous marketing year; secondly, of the movement of basic prices in the fruit and vegetables sector; and thirdly, of the need to ensure the normal marketing of fresh products for the various uses;

Whereas Article 5 of Regulation (EEC) No 426/86 lays down the criteria for fixing the amount of production aid; whereas account must, in particular, be taken of the aid fixed for the previous marketing year adjusted to take account of changes in the minimum price to be paid to producers, the non-member country price and, if necessary, the pattern of processing cost assessed on a flat-rate basis; whereas in respect of dried grapes a minimum import price is applicable pursuant to Article 9 of the same Regulation; whereas the non-member country price must be replaced by this price;

Whereas Article 4 (2) of Regulation (EEC) No 426/86 provides that the minimum price to be paid to producers for unprocessed sultanas and currants shall be increased each month during a certain period of the marketing year by an amount corresponding to storage costs; whereas, in fixing this amount, the technical storage costs and interest cost should be taken into consideration;

Whereas Article 1 (2) of Council Regulation (EEC) No 461/86 of 25 February 1986 laying down, on account of the accession of Spain and Portugal, rules on the production aid system in respect of processed fruit and vegetables (4) provides that in cases where no minimum price for the raw material is established before the first move towards alignment of prices, the finished product obtained from such raw material shall not benefit from any production aid; whereas as a consequence thereof no production aid shall be paid during the transitional period for processed sultanas and currants obtained from unprocessed dried grapes from Spain and Portugal;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are in accordance with the opinion of the Management Committee for Products Processed from Fruit and Vegetables,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For the marketing year 1986/87:

(a) the minimum price referred to in Article 4 of Regulation (EEC) No 426/86 to be paid to producers for unprocessed dried sultanas of category 4;

and

(b) the production aid referred to in Article 5 of the same Regulation for processed dried sultanas of category 4;

shall be as set out in the Annex.

Article 2

For the marketing year 1986/87, the amount by which the minimum price for unprocessed dried grapes is to be increased on the first of each month for the period 1 November to 1 August is hereby fixed at 1,555 ECU per 100 kilograms net of sultanas of category 4.

For other categories of sultanas and for currants the amount shall be multplied by the coefficient applicable to the minimum price listed in Annex I to Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2347/84 (5).

Article 3

No production aid shall be granted for processed sultanas and currants obtained from sultanas and currants grown in Spain or Portugal.

Article 4

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day following its publication in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 30 July 1986.

For the Commission

Frans ANDRIESSEN

Vice-President

(1) OJ No L 49, 27. 2. 1986, p. 1.

(2) OJ No L 159, 14. 6. 1986, p. 1.

(3) OJ No L 123, 9. 5. 1984, p. 25.

(4) OJ No L 53, 1. 3. 1986, p. 15.

(5) OJ No L 219, 16. 8. 1984, p. 1.

ANNEX

Minimum price to be paid to the producers

1.2 // // // Product // ECU per 100 kilograms ex producer // // // Unprocessed sultanas of category 4 // 133,17 // //

Production aid

1.2 // // // Product // ECU per 100 kilograms net // // // Dried sultanas of category 4 // 51,972 // //