Commission Regulation (EC) No 1527/98 of 16 July 1998 fixing for the 1998/99 marketing year the minimum price to be paid to producers and the buying-in price to be applied by storage agencies for unprocessed dried figs, the amount of production aid for dried figs
Date: 1998-07-16
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: dried product, minimum price, pip fruit, production aid, purchase price, stock

17. 7. 98

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 201/59

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1527/98

of 16 July 1998

fixing for the 1998/99 marketing year the minimum price to be paid to producers
and the buying-in price to be applied by storage agencies for unprocessed dried
figs, the amount of production aid for dried figs

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 Articles 3(3), 4(9) and 9(8) thereof,
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), fixes the dates of the
marketing years;
Whereas Articles 3 and 4 of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96
set the criteria for fixing the minimum price and the
amount of the production aid respectively;
Whereas Articles 1 and 2 of Commission Regulation
(EEC) No 1709/84 of 19 June 1984 on minimum prices
payable to producers and amounts of production aid for
certain processed fruit and vegetables eligible for produc-
tion aid (5), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No
2322/89 (6), define the categories of unprocessed dried figs
and dried figs respectively for which the minimum price
and the aid are fixed; whereas, therefore, the minimum
price and production aid for the 1998/99 marketing year
should be fixed;
Whereas the criteria for fixing the price at which storage
agencies but in dried figs are determined in Article 9(2)(a)
of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96; whereas
single
buying-in price equal to the minimum price reduced by

a

5 %, corresponding to category D as defined in Part I of
Annex I to Regulation (EEC) No 1709/84 should be fixed;

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 the 1998/99 marketing year:

(a)

the minimum price referred to in Article 3 of Regula-
tion (EC) No 2201/96 shall be ECU 85,326 per 100
kilograms net
from the producer for unprocessed
dried figs in category C;

(b) the production aid referred to in Article 4 of that
Regulation shall be ECU 27,757 per 100 kilograms
net for dried figs in category C.

Article 2

the buying-in price
For the 1998/99 marketing year,
referred to in Article 9(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96
shall be ECU 62,265 per 100 kilograms net.

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 from 1 July 1998.

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

Done at Brussels, 16 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 162, 20. 6. 1984, p. 8.
(6) OJ L 220, 27. 9. 1989, p. 58.