Council Regulation (EC) No 857/1999 of 22 April 1999 amending Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 on the common organisation of the market in fruit and vegetables
Date: 1999-04-22
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: aid system, common organisation of markets, fruit, marketing standard, producer organisation, vegetable

27. 4. 1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 108/7

COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 857/1999

of 22 April 1999

amending Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 on the common organisation of the
market in fruit and vegetables

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Article 43 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission (1),

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parlia-
ment (2),

Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
Committee (3),

Whereas Regulation (EEC) No 2200/96 (4) lays down rules
on recognised producer organisations; whereas these rules
require members to sell their entire production through
the producer organisation; whereas, however, provision is
made for this obligation to be waived for direct sales on
the producer’s holding to consumers for their personal
needs; whereas a volume restriction applies to such sales;
whereas to take account of standard practice in certain
parts of the Community this waiver should be extended
to embrace direct sales away from the holding but no
change should be made in the present volume restriction;

Whereas Article 15(4)(c) of the said Regulation should be
clarified;

Whereas
the present provisions on defrayal by the
Community of transport, sorting and packaging costs in
connection with certain products withdrawn from the
market and then distributed free should apply to all free
distribution of withdrawn products,

Article 1

Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 is hereby amended as
follows:

1. in the first indent of Article 11(1)(c)(3) the words ‘on
their holdings' shall be replaced by ‘on their holdings
and/or outside their holdings'.

2. Article 15(4)(c) shall be replaced by the following:

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‘(c) make financial provision for the technical and
human
the
required
monitoring of compliance with the standards
referred to in Article 2, with plant-health rules and
with maximum permitted levels of residues.'

ensure

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3. Article 30(6) shall be replaced by the following:

‘6.
The Community shall defray, on terms and
conditions to be determined in accordance with the
procedure laid down in Article 46, transport, sorting
and packaging costs in connection with free distribu-
tion as provided for in paragraph 1.'

Article 2

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

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

Done at Luxembourg, 22 April 1999.

For the Council

The President

W. M(cid:154)LLER

(1) OJ C 381, 8.12.1998, p. 8.
(2) Opinion delivered on 14 April 1999 (not yet published in the

Official Journal).

(3) Opinion delivered on 24 February 1999 (not yet published in

the Official Journal).

(4) OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 1. Regulation as amended by
Commission Regulation (EC) No 2520/97 (OJ L 346,
17.12.1997, p. 41).