Commission Regulation (EC) No 1547/98 of 17 July 1998 setting the intervention threshold for apples for the 1998/99 marketing year
Date: 1998-07-17
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: intervention price, market intervention, marketing year, pip fruit, threshold price

18. 7. 98

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 202/23

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1547/98

of 17 July 1998

setting the intervention threshold for apples for the 1998/99 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

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 set for apples for
the 1997/98 marketing year in Commission 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 1998/99 marketing year on the basis of a percentage
of the average quantity of produce intended for consump-
tion fresh of the last five marketing years for which data
are available; whereas 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 the consequences of such an overrun
should be determined and a reduction in proportion to

the size of the overrun set, 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,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The intervention threshold for apples for the 1998/

1.
99 marketing year shall be 491 300 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 June 1998 and 31 May 1999.

Article 2

If the quantity of apples subject to withdrawals during the
period laid down in Article 1(2) exceeds the threshold laid
down in Article 1(1),
the Community withdrawal
compensation laid down 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 withdrawal
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, 17 July 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.