Commission Regulation (EC) No 2792/98 of 22 December 1998 fixing the standard values to be used in calculating the financial compensation and the advance pertaining thereto in respect of fishery products withdrawn from the market during the 1999 fishing year (Text with EEA relevance)
Date: 1998-12-22
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: fishery product, market intervention, producer organisation, withdrawal from the market, withdrawal price

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2792/98

of 22 December 1998

fixing the standard values to be used in calculating the financial compensation
and the advance pertaining thereto in respect of fishery products withdrawn from
the market during the 1999 fishing year

(Text with EEA relevance)

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92
of 17 December 1992 on the common organisation of the
in fishery and aquaculture products (1), as last
market
amended by Regulation (EC) No 3318/94 (2), and in
particular Article 12(6) thereof,

Whereas Article 12 of Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92
provides for the payment of financial compensation to
producers’ organisations which intervene, on certain
conditions, in respect of the products listed in Annex I
(A) and (D) to that Regulation; whereas the amount of
such financial compensation must be reduced by standard
values in the case of products intended for purposes other
than human consumption;

Whereas Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1501/83 (3)
specifies the ways in which the products withdrawn must
be disposed of; whereas the value of such products must
be fixed at a standard level for each of these modes of
disposal, taking into account the average receipts which
may be obtained from such disposal;

granting the financial compensation is informed; whereas
the aforementioned body is that of the Member State in
which the producers’ organisation was
recognised;
whereas the standard value deductible should therefore be
the value applied in that Member State;

Whereas
the abovementioned provisions are equally
applicable to the advance on the financial compensation
provided for in Article 6(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3902/
92;

Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation are
in accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Fishery Products,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The standard values to be used in calculating the financial
compensation and the advance pertaining thereto in
respect of products withdrawn by producers’ organisations
and used for purposes other than human consumption
shall be for the 1999 fishing year as shown in the Annex
hereto for each of the uses indicated therein.

Whereas, on the basis of the relevant information on this
value, it should be fixed for the 1999 fishing year as
shown in the Annex hereto;

Article 2

Whereas, pursuant to Article 7 of Commission Regulation
(EEC) No 3902/92 (4), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
No 1338/95 (5), special arrangements are provided for so
that if a producers’ organisation or one of its members
puts its products up for sale in a Member State other than
that in which it is recognised the body responsible for

The standard value to be deducted from the financial
compensation and the advance pertaining thereto shall be
that applied in the Member State in which the producers’
organisation was recognised.

(1) OJ L 388, 31. 12. 1992, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 350, 31. 12. 1994, p. 15.
(3) OJ L 152, 10. 6. 1983, p. 22.
(4) OJ L 392, 31. 12. 1992, p. 35.
(5) OJ L 129, 14. 6. 1995, p. 7.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 January 1999.

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

Done at Brussels, 22 December 1998.

For the Commission

Emma BONINO

Member of the Commission

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ANNEX

Use of products withdrawn

EUR/tonne

1. Used as animal feed after drying and cutting up or processing into meal:

(a) herring of the species Clupea harengus and mackerel of the species Scomber

scombrus and Scomber japonicus:

— Denmark and Sweden

— France

— other Member States

(b) for shrimps of the species Crangon crangon and deep-water prawns (Pandalus

borealis):

— Sweden

— other Member States

(c) for other products:

— Denmark

— Sweden

— United Kingdom, Portugal, Belgium and Ireland

— other Member States

2. Used otherwise than as under animal feed (bait included):

(a) sardines of the species Sardina pilchardus and anchovy (Engraulis spp.)

— all Member States

(b) for other products:

— Sweden

— France, Denmark and Netherlands

— Ireland

— other Member States

3. Used for purposes other than animal feed

70

1

18

0

5

55

45

18

0

25

80

50

0

35

0