3. 5. 82 Official Journal of the European Communities No C 112/29 
Page 7, second paragraph 
Final sentence: 
'The Section therefore expects that a Regulation governing the application of the rules of competition to 
international maritime shipping will provide more legal certainty and stimulate competition more than 
decisions on individual infringements of the rules of competition taken under Articles 85(1) and 86 of 
the EEC Treaty, e-.g. decisions concerning discrimination by Liner Conferences.' 
Voting 
For: 52; against: 6; abstentions: 13. 
Page 8 
First, fourth and fifth indents: 
- 'it is clear that the International Air Transport Association (IATA) tariff policy is frequently being 
circumvented, 
- airline companies, for the most part, come under Article 90(1) (public undertakings or 
undertakings having special or exclusive rights); the Commission does not exclude the possibility 
that governments are infringing Articles 90 (1), 85 and 86, and that these infringements may 
warrant action under Article 90 (3), 
- whilst there exists in international airtransport a price war which is in some cases having ruinous 
effects, the fares for scheduled air services within Europe often appear excessive and this has led 
inter alia to complaints from the European Bureau of Consumers' Unions.' 
Voting 
For: 41; against: 12; abstentions: 20. 
Opinion on the proposal for a Regulation amending Council Regulation (EEC) No 2511/69 
laying down special measures for improving the production and marketing of Community 
citrus fruit 
The text referred to the Committee has been published in Official Journal of the European 
Communities No C 276 of 28 October 1981, page 6. 
A. LEGAL BASIS FOR THE OPINION 
On 26 October 1981 the Council referred the abovementioned proposal to the Economic and 
Social Committee in accordance with Article 43 of the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic Community. 
B. OPINION OF THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE 
The Economic and Social Committee prepared its opinion on the above matter at its 195th 
plenary session held in Brussels on 24 and 25 February 1982. 
The full text of the opinion is as follows: 
THE ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL COMMITTEE, 
Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European 
Economic Community, and in particular Article 43 
thereof, 
Having regard to the request made by the Council of the 
European Communities on 26 October 1981 for an 
opinion on the proposal for a Regulation amending 
Council Regulation (EEC) No 2511/69 laying down 
special measures for improving the production and 
marketing of Community citrus fruit, Having regard to the decision taken by its Bureau on 
27 October 1981 instructing the Section for Agriculture 
to prepare an opinion on the matter, 
Having regard to its previous opinions on this subject, 
with particular reference to the opinion on agricultural 
aspects of enlargement of the Community to include 
Spain, 
Having regard to the opinion adopted by the Section for 
Agriculture at its 231st meeting held on 7 January 
1982, 
No C 112/30 Official Journal of the European Communities 3. 5. 82 
Having regard to the oral report made by the rapporteur, 
Mr Paggi, 
Having regard to the discussions at its 195th plenary 
session held on 24 and 25 February 1982 (meeting of 
25 February), 
HAS ADOPTED THE FOLLOWING OPINION 
by 81 votes to nil, with two abstentions: 
1. The Economic and Social Committee points out 
first and foremost that the proposed Regulation is just one 
facet of the improvement of Community rules and 
regulations in preparation for the further enlargement of 
the EEC. The Committee has expressed its views on this 
on several occasions, and particularly in the opinion on 
agricultural aspects of negotiations with Spain, which 
was adopted on 23 September 1981 (1). In view of the 
projected enlargement of the Community, the Committee 
accordingly stresses the need for an improvement in the 
rules governing the sector in question on a fair and equal 
basis, as advocated by the Commission in the Mandate of 
30 May. 
2. In this connection, the Committee notes that the 
parent Regulation (EEC) No 2511/69 of 9 December 
1969 which laid down special measures for improving 
Community citrus production and marketing, has had 
little impact so far. As the Commission itself admits, the 
two main reasons why less than one-fifth of the planned 
area (42 thousand hectares) has been converted, are: 
(a) the grants do not provide sufficient incentive; and 
(b) the number of beneficiaries is too small. For this 
reason the problems in the Community citrus fruit sector 
have remained more or less unsolved, and the matter 
should be given more serious thought now that other 
citrus-fruit producing countries are about to join the 
Community. 
3. The Committee sympathizes with the reasons 
behind the new proposals, and has taken particular 
interest in how the proposed measures tie in with the 
objectives. 
4. The Committee supports the Commission Decision 
to list lemons among the products qualifying for 
Done at Brussels, 25 February 1982. conversion aid (Article 1 (1)), particularly since 
reorganization is long overdue in this area. 
5. The information contained in the draft Regulation 
provides a valid basis for deciding which Member States 
should qualify for grants (Article 1 (3)), and must 
therefore be considered a useful adjunct to the current 
rules. However, as reference is made to Member States 
rather than Community regions, the Committee points 
out that 'Corsica' (second paragraph of Article 1 (3)) 
should be replaced by 'France'. 
6. Furthermore, all measures for making aid more 
accessible and eliminating discrimination between 
farmers (Article 1 (5)) are an improvement on the earlier 
arrangements; in fact some of the restrictions, which the 
new proposal imposes on individual beneficiaries, should 
perhaps be removed, so as to make the conversion 
programme accessible to the maximum number of 
people. 
7. The increase in funds for aid (Article 1 (5)) should 
be sufficient to surmount the obstacles which impeded the 
original conversion proposals. However, the length of 
time needed to put these measures into effect remains a 
serious problem: if too much time is taken, and if the 
adjustments proposed from 1984 are not made, aid may 
very soon fail yet again to provide sufficient incentive, 
partly because of the high inflation in the Member States 
concerned. 
8. The Committee rather doubts the wisdom of 
phasing out the 'market promotion premiums' (first and 
second paragraphs of Article 1(8), and in particular of 
treating oranges and mandarins differently from lemons 
and Clementines. The Committee hopes, however, that 
before any definite move is made to scrap these 
premiums, the whole citrus fruit sector will be reviewed in 
the light of the results of the conversion measures. 
9. The Committee urges the Commission to submit 
regular detailed figures of the results which have been 
achieved. It also recommends a thorough review of the 
entire reference price system, whose inefficiency led to the 
introduction of these compensatory arrangements in the 
1975/76 marketing year. 
The Chairman of 
the Economic and Social Committee 
Tomas ROSEINGRAVE 
(») OJ No C 310, 30. 11. 1981, p. 36.