Commission Regulation (EC) No 1734/98 of 4 August 1998 fixing for the 1998/99 marketing year the minimum price to be paid to producers for Williams and Rocha pears and the amount of production aid for Williams and Rocha pears in syrup and/or natural fruit juice
Date: 1998-08-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: fruit juice, minimum price, pip fruit, preserved product, producer organisation, production aid

L 217/12

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

5. 8. 98

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1734/98

of 4 August 1998

fixing for the 1998/99 marketing year the minimum price to be paid to producers
for Williams and Rocha pears and the amount of production aid for Williams
and Rocha pears in syrup and/or natural fruit juice

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

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 organization 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) and 4(9) 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 last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 1590/98 (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
the production aid respectively; whereas
amount of
Article 5 of
that Regulation introduces a guarantee
threshold beyond which the aid is reduced; whereas,
therefore, the minimum price and the production aid for
the 1998/99 marketing year 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,

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 39,259 per 100 kg
net from the producer for Williams and Rocha pears
intended for the production of pears in syrup and/or
natural fruit juice,

(b) the production aid referred to in Article 4 of that
Regulation shall be ECU 12,517 per 100 kilograms
net for Williams and Rocha pears in syrup and/or
natural fruit juice.

Article 2

Where processing takes place outside the Member State
in which the produce was grown, such Member State shall
furnish proof to the Member State paying the production
aid that the minimum price payable to the producer has
been paid.

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 15 July 1998.

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

Done at Brussels, 4 August 1998.

For the Commission

Monika WULF-MATHIES

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 208, 24. 7. 1998, p. 11.