Commission Regulation (EC) No 626/98 of 19 March 1998 setting the intervention thresholds for melons and water melons for the 1998/99 marketing year
Date: 1998-03-19
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: fruit vegetable, market intervention, quantitative restriction, withdrawal from the market

L 85/10

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

20. 3. 98

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 626/98

of 19 March 1998

setting the intervention thresholds for melons and water melons for the 1998/99
marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

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

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

in fruit

as

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The

1.
marketing year shall be:

intervention thresholds

for

the

1998/99

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 imbalances
giving or liable to give rise to too large a volume of
withdrawals; whreas such a development would be likely
to cause budget problems for the Community;

Whereas intervention thresholds were fixed for melons
and water melons for the 1997/98 marketing year by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 1109/97 (3); whereas,
since the conditions laid down in the abovementioned
Article 27 continue to be met for those products, new
thresholds should be set for the 1998/99 marketing year
and the period to be taken into account for the assess-
ment of the overrun of the thresholds 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 the consequences of such an overrun
should be determined and a reduction in proportion to
the size of the overrun, up to a maximum percentage,
should be fixed;

(cid:190) 176 600 tonnes for melons, and
(cid:190) 197 400 tonnes for water melons.

2.
The overrun of the intervention thresholds laid down
in paragraph 1 shall be assessed on the basis of with-
drawals effected between 1 February 1998 and 31 January
1999.

Article 2

If the quantity of melons or water melons withdrawn
during the period set in Article 1(2) exceeds the relevant
threshold set in Article 1(1), the Community withdrawal
compensation set in Annex V to Regulation (EC) No
2200/96 for the 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, 19 March 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, 19. 6. 1997, p. 12.