Commission Regulation (EC) No 281/98 of 3 February 1998 setting the intervention threshold for tomatoes for the 1998 marketing year
Date: 1998-02-03
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: fruit vegetable, market intervention, quantitative restriction, regulation of agricultural production, withdrawal from the market

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Official Journal of the European Communities

4. 2. 98

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 281/98

of 3 February 1998

setting the intervention threshold for tomatoes for the 1998 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

tion to the size of the overrun fixed, but restricted to a
certain percentage;

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

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 of
28 October 1996 on the common organisation of the
amended by
and vegetables (1),
market
Commission Regulation (EC) No 2520/97 (2), and in
particular Article 27(1) and (2) thereof,

in fruit

as

Whereas Article 27(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2200/96
provides for the possibility of setting an intervention
threshold if the market in a product listed in Annex II
thereto is suffering or at risk of suffering from widespread
structural imbalances giving, or liable to give rise to too
large a volume of withdrawals; whereas such a develop-
ment would be likely to cause budget problems for the
Community;

Whereas an intervention threshold was fixed for tomatoes
for the 1997 marketing year in Regulation (EC) No 1109/
97 (3); whereas, since the conditions laid down in the
abovementioned Article 27 continue to be met for that
product, a new threshold should be set for the 1998
marketing year equal to that set for the 1997 marketing
year, and the period to be taken into account for the
assessment of the overrun of the threshold should also be
determined;

Whereas, pursuant to the abovementioned Article 27, an
overrun of the intervention threshold results in a reduc-
tion in the Community withdrawal compensation in the
marketing year following the year in which the threshold
is exceeded; whereas
such an
overrun should be determined and a reduction in propor-

the consequences of

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The intervention threshold for tomatoes for the 1998

1.
marketing year shall be 360 000 tonnes.

2.
The overrun of the intervention threshold laid down
in paragraph 1 shall be assessed on the basis of with-
drawals effected between 1 November 1997 and 31
October 1998.

Article 2

If the quantity subject to withdrawals during the period
set in Article 1(2) exceeds the threshold set in Article
in
1(1),
the Community withdrawal compensation set
the
Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 for
following marketing year shall be reduced in proportion
to the size of the overrun based on the production used
to calculate the relevant threshold.

However, the reduction in the Community compensation
shall not exceed 30 %.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third 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, 3 February 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 297, 21. 11. 1996, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 346, 17. 12. 1997, p. 41.
(3) OJ L 162, 18. 6. 1997, p. 12.