Commission Regulation (EC) No 1832/98 of 25 August 1998 fixing for the 1998/99 marketing year the minimum price to be paid to producers for dried plums and the amount of production aid for prunes
Date: 1998-08-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: dried product, marketing year, minimum price, production aid, stone fruit

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1832/98

of 25 August 1998

fixing for the 1998/99 marketing year the minimum price to be paid to producers
for dried plums and the amount of production aid for prunes

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Committee for Products processed from Fruit and Veget-
ables,

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) 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
the system of production aid for products
regards
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
amount of the production aid respectively;

Whereas Article 3 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 production
aid (5), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1591/98 (6),
defines the products for which the minimum price and
the aid are fixed and Commission Regulation (EEC) No
2022/85 of 22 July 1985 on minimum quality require-
ments for dried plums, and prunes, eligible for production
aid (7) lays down the characteristics that these products
must possess; whereas the minimum price and production
aid for the 1998/99 marketing year should therefore be
fixed;

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 193,523 per 100
kilograms net
from the producer for dried plums
derived from prunes d’Ente as defined in Article 3 of
Regulation (EEC) No 1709/84,

(b) the production aid referred to in Article 4 of Regula-
tion (EC) No 2201/96 shall be ECU 81,360 per 100
kilograms net for prunes as defined in Article 3 of
Regulation (EEC) No 1709/84.

Article 2

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

furnish proof

2. Member States shall
take the necessary steps to
satisfy themselves that prunes which received aid were
then processed into products as referred to in Article
1(1)(c) of Regulation (EC) No 504/97.

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
the Management
in accordance with the opinion of

Article 3

(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.
(5) OJ L 162, 20. 6. 1984, p. 8.
(6) OJ L 208, 24. 7. 1998, p. 14.
(7) OJ L 191, 23. 7. 1985, p. 31.

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 September 1998.

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

Done at Brussels, 25 August 1998.

For the Commission

Karel VAN MIERT

Member of the Commission