Commission Regulation (EC) No 2183/98 of 9 October 1998 fixing the intervention thresholds for oranges, satsumas, mandarins and clementines for the 1998/99 marketing year
Date: 1998-10-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: citrus fruit, market intervention, marketing year

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2183/98

of 9 October 1998

fixing the intervention thresholds for oranges, satsumas, mandarins and clemen-
tines for the 1998/99 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
the Management
in accordance with the opinion of
Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,

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 an intervention threshold to be fixed if the
market in a product listed in Annex II is suffering or at
risk of suffering from imbalances giving or liable to give
rise to too large a volume of withdrawals; whereas such a
development might cause budget problems
the
Community;

for

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The following intervention thresholds are fixed for the
1998/99 marketing year:

— oranges:

— satsumas:

— mandarins:

— clementines:

414 200 tonnes

22 100 tonnes

37 900 tonnes

132 800 tonnes.

Article 2

Whereas the conditions laid down in the abovementioned
Article 27 are met for certain products and intervention
thresholds for oranges, satsumas, mandarins and clemen-
tines should therefore be fixed;

The over-run of the intervention threshold for the prod-
ucts listed in Article 1 shall be assessed on the basis of the
withdrawals carried out between 1 August 1998 and 31
July 1999.

Whereas this intervention threshold for each of those
products should be fixed on the basis of a percentage of
the average production intended for consumption in the
fresh state over the last five marketing years for which
data are available; whereas the period to be taken into
account for assessing the over-run of the intervention
threshold must also be established for each product in
question;

Whereas, under
the abovementioned Article 27, an
over-run of the intervention threshold gives rise to a
reduction in the Community withdrawal compensation in
the marketing year following the over-run; whereas the
implications of this over-run for each of the products in
question should be determined and a reduction propor-
tional to the size of the over-run should be fixed, up to a
certain percentage;

(1) OJ L 297, 21. 11. 1996, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 346, 17. 12. 1997, p. 41.

Article 3

If the quantity of one of the products listed in Article 1
withdrawn in the period laid down in Article 2 exceeds
the threshold fixed in Article 1, the Community with-
drawal compensation fixed in Annex V to Regulation
(EC) No 2200/96 for the 1999/2000 marketing year shall
be reduced in proportion to the size of the over-run
compared with the production used to calculate the
threshold in question.

The Community withdrawal compensation shall not,
however, be reduced by more than 30 %.

Article 4

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
following its publication in the Official Journal of the
European Communities.

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

Done at Brussels, 9 October 1998.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission