Commission Regulation (EC) No 702/1999 of 31 March 1999 amending Regulation (EC) No 504/97 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
Date: 1999-03-31
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agro-industry, aid system, fruit product, production aid, vegetable product

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Official Journal of the European Communities

1. 4. 1999

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 702/1999

of 31 March 1999

amending Regulation (EC) No 504/97 laying down detailed rules for the applica-
tion of Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 as regards the system of production
aid for products processed from fruit and vegetables

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Whereas, in view of the above change, it is necessary to
adapt certain provisions of Regulation (EC) No 504/97 to
this new situation, particularly the date by which the final
figures for the marketing year must be notified to the
Commission,
signing preliminary
contracts, their submission to the competent authorities
of
these
contracts to the Commission;

the Member States and the notification of

the deadline

for

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 of
28 October 1996 on the common organisation of the
markets in processed fruit and vegetable products (1), as
last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2199/97 (2), and in
particular Article 4(9) thereof,

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,

Whereas Article 6(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 lays
down that the quotas for each group of products shall be
shared out each year among the Member States according
to the average quantities produced in compliance with
minimum prices during the preceding three marketing
years;

Whereas Article 6(1) of Commission Regulation (EC) No
504/97 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 1590/
98 (4), provides for a preliminary contract to be drawn up
for products processed from tomatoes to be concluded by
16 February each year; whereas the Member States may
defer that date to 16 March; whereas Article 11(4) of that
Regulation lays down that production aid applications
must be submitted to the competent authorities by 1
the marketing year concerned; whereas
February of
Article 17(2)
lays down that the Member States must
notify the Commission by 1 April each year of the final
figures for the marketing year concerned;

Whereas the figures for each marketing year are only
available from 1 April; whereas the allocation of quotas
provided for in Article 6(3) of Regulation (EC) No 2201/
96 cannot therefore be carried out in time to sign prelim-
inary contracts; whereas it is therefore necessary to bring
forward the date for submission of aid applications to the
competent authorities
the
marketing year concerned;

to the 15 December of

(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.

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 504/97 is amended as follows:

(1) The first subparagraph of Article 6(1) is replaced by

the following:

‘1.
In the case of tomatoes, preliminary contracts
shall be concluded each year, pending the conclusion
of contracts as referred to in Article 7(1), at the most
10 working days from the publication in the Official
Journal of the European Communities of the alloca-
tion of quotas for each group of products between the
Member States.'

(2) Article 11(4) is replaced by the following:

‘4.
In the case of products processed from peaches,
pears and tomatoes, aid applications may be submitted
once only per marketing year. They must reach the
competent authorities by the following dates of the
marketing year concerned:

(cid:190) 15 December for products processed from toma-

toes,

(cid:190) 1 February for products processed from peaches or

pears.'

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(3) In Article 13(1):

(cid:190) 1 April for products processed from peaches or

(cid:190) the date 30 November in the first part of the

sentence is replaced by ‘30 October',

(cid:190) the date 25 November in point (b) is replaced by

‘25 October'.

(4) In Article 17(2),

the first part of

the sentence is

replaced by the following:

‘2. By:

(cid:190) 15 February for products processed from toma-

toes,

pears,

of the following:'.

Article 2

from the 1999/2000
apply
This Regulation shall
marketing year, with the exception of Article 1(2) which
shall apply from the 2000/2001 marketing year.

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

Done at Brussels, 31 March 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission