Proposal for a COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) on the free distribution outside the Community of fruit and vegetables withdrawn from the market during the 1993/94 season
Date: 1993-12-06
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Yugoslavia, citrus fruit, civilian victim, withdrawal from the market

COMMISSION  OF  THE  EUROPEAN  COMMUNITIES 

C0M(93) 475 final 

Brussels, 6 December  1993 

Proposal  for a 

COUNCIL  REGULATION  (EC) 

on the  free distribution outside the Community 
of fruit and vegetables withdrawn from the market 
during the  1993/94 season 

(presented  by  the  Commission) 

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EXPLANATORY MEMORANDUM 

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Subject:  Proposal for a Council Regulation  ( SC) on the free distribution 

outside the Community of fruit and vegetables withdrawn from the market 

during the 1993/94 season. 

1.  The Community regulations provide that fruit and vegetables withdrawn from 

the market are to be distributed free to charitable organizations, schools, 

etc.  The costs of transport incurred by such operations are to be charged to 

the EAGGF on the basis of a standard scale. 

2.  This year the apple and orange harvests have been more than enough to satisfy 

Community demand.  It should therefore be made possible for products 

withdrawn from the market to be distributed by charitable organizations to 

destinations where the people require food supplies.  That is the aim of this 

proposal. 

3.  As withdrawals of agricultural surpluses are the exclusive responsibility of 

the Community, the measures must be taken at Community level. 

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on the free distribution outside the community 
of fruit and vegetables withdrawn  from the market 
during the  1993/94 season 

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION, 

Having regard to the Treaty establishing  the European community, 

Having regard to Council Regulation  (EEC) No  1035/72 of  18 May  1972 on the common 

organization of the market in fruit and vegetables(*), and in particular 

Article 35 thereof, 

Having regard to a proposal from the commission, 

whereas the Community  fruit and vegetable harvest  in the  1993/94 marketing year 

and in particular the apple and orange harvests are more than enough  to satisfy 

Community consumption, to the extent that withdrawals of major quantities  should 

be anticipated; 

whereas Article  21 of Regulation  (EEC) No  1035/72 defines the way  products 

withdrawn  from the market may be disposed of; 

Whereas, in order to improve food supplies to people  in certain third  countries 

and in particular the victims of the conflict  in the former Yugoslavia, apples, 

oranges and, where appropriate, other fruit and vegetables withdrawn  from the 

market could be dispatched to such third countries through  charitable 

organizations ; 

(1) OJ No L  118, 20.5.1972, p. 1. as last amended by Regulation  (EEC) 638/93 

(OJ No L 69 of 20.3.1993, p.7) 

Whereas there is no provision for this in Article 21 of Regulation (EEC) 

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No 1035/72; whereas, however, on account on the one hand of the difficulties of 

supply encountered by victims of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia and on the 

other hand of the surplus apple and orange harvests in the Community, a measure 

derogating by way of an exception from Article 21 of that Regulation should be 

adopted to allow for the delivery of apples and oranges withdrawn from the market 

to the organizations concerned with a view to their free distribution to the 

people in question; whereas such an operation needs to be able to be extended 

quickly to cover other fruit and vegetables or other destinations in the event of 

serious supply difficulties; 

Whereas from now on it seems possible to extend this operation to oranges for the 

1993/94 season; 

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION: 

Article 1 

1.  Article 21 of Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72 notwithstanding, during the 1993/94 

marketing year oranges and table apples of Community origin withdrawn from 

the market in accordance with that Regulation to charitable organizations 

approved by them for the purpose with a view to their free distribution to 

the victims of the conflict in the former Yugoslavia. 

2.  Without prejudice to the Community provisions applicable to the subject, the 

costs of transport of the apples and oranges referred to in paragraph 1 shall 

be defrayed by the charitable organziations undertaking such operations. 

3.  Apples and oranges dispatched pursuant to paragraph 1 shall not qualify for 

export refunds applying to fruit and vegetables. 

Article 2 

Detailed rules for the application of this Regulation and in particular for 

coordination under the Community emergency aid plan for the former Yugoslavia 

shall be adopted in accordance with the procedure provided for in Article 33 of 

Regulation (EEC) No 1035/72. 

In the event of serious difficulties of supply, the Commission may decide, in 

accordance with the same procedure, to apply Article  1 of this Regulation  to 

other  fruit and vegetables withdrawn  from the market or  in respect of other 

destinations. 

Article 3 

This Regulation  shall enter into force on the third day following  its publication 

in the Official Journal of the European Communities. 

It shall apply as from  15 October 1993. 

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

Member States. 

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