Commission Regulation (EC) No 1481/98 of 10 July 1998 setting the storage aid for unprocessed dried grapes and figs from the 1997/98 marketing year
Date: 1998-07-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: dried product, grape, marketing, marketing year, pip fruit, storage premium

11. 7. 98

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 195/13

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1481/98

of 10 July 1998

setting the storage aid for unprocessed dried grapes and figs from the 1997/98
marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 of
28 October 1996 on the common organisation of the
market in products processed from fruit and vegetables (1),
as amended by Regulation (EC) No 2199/97 (2), and in
particular Article 9(8) thereof,

Whereas Article 9(4) of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96
provides that aid is to be granted to storage agencies for
the quantities of sultanas, currants and dried figs which
they have bought in and for the actual duration of storage;

Whereas Article 2 of Commission Regulation (EC) No
504/97 of 19 March 1997 laying down detailed rules for
the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 as
regards
the system of production aid for products
processed from fruit and vegetables (3), as amended by
Regulation (EC) No 1491/97 (4), lays down the dates of
the marketing years;

Whereas the storage aid for unprocessed dried grapes and
figs from the 1997/98 marketing year should be set and
whereas, to that end, account should be taken of the
criteria laid down in Article 1 of Commission Regulation
(EEC) No 627/85 of 12 March 1985 on storage aid and
financial compensation for unprocessed dried grapes and
figs (5), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1922/
95 (6), which provides that the storage aid is to be set per
day and per 100 kilograms net of sultanas of category 4
and dried figs of category C and that two rates of aid are
the first up to the end of
to apply to dried grapes,

February of the year following that in which the products
were purchased by the storage agency, the second to
storage beyond that period;

Whereas storage aid is calculated taking account of the
technical cost of
the
purchase price paid for the products;

storage and the financing of

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

For products from the 1997/98 marketing year,
the
storage aid referred to in Article 9(4) of Regulation (EC)
No 2201/96 shall be:

(a) ECU 0,0204 per day per 100 kilograms net until 28
February 1999 and ECU 0,0080 per day and per 100
kilograms net from 1 March 1999 for sultanas of
category 4;

(b) ECU 0,0214 per day per 100 kilograms net for dried

figs of category C.

Article 2

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, 10 July 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 297, 21. 11. 1996, p. 29.
(2) OJ L 303, 6. 11. 1997, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 78, 20. 3. 1997, p. 14.
(4) OJ L 202, 30. 7. 1997, p. 27.
(5) OJ L 72, 13. 3. 1985, p. 17.
(6) OJ L 185, 4. 8. 1995, p. 19.