Commission Regulation (EC) No 999/1999 of 11 May 1999 amending Regulation (EC) No 293/98 as regards the operative event applicable to the transport costs for fruit and vegetables distributed free of charge following their withdrawal from the market
Date: 1999-05-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: free service, fresh fruit, fresh vegetable, representative rate, transport price, withdrawal from the market

L 122/34

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

12. 5. 1999

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 999/1999

of 11 May 1999

amending Regulation (EC) No 293/98 as regards the operative event applicable to
the transport costs for fruit and vegetables distributed free of charge following
their withdrawal from the market

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2799/98 of
15 December 1998 establishing agrimonetary arrange-
ments for the euro (1), and in particular Article 3(2)
thereof,

(1) Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 293/
98 (2), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 519/
1999 (3), fixes the operative events applicable in the
fruit and vegetables sector and in the products
processed from fruit and vegetables sector;

(2) Whereas Article 15 of and Annex V to Commis-
sion Regulation (EC) No 659/97 of 16 April 1997
laying down detailed rules for the application of
Council Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 as regards
intervention arrangements in the fruit and veget-
ables sector (4), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
No 729/1999 (5), fixes aid for the cost of trans-
of
porting products
charge
distributed
from the market;
following their withdrawal
whereas experience shows that
is
this transport
most often carried out
in the relevant Member
States which have not adopted the euro by the
producer organisations that withdrew the products
in question; whereas the transport and associated
withdrawals are most often simultaneous or occur
at most within the space of a few days of each

free

other; whereas, therefore, with a view to adminis-
trative simplification, a single exchange rate should
be applied for these two operations pursuant to
Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2799/98 and by
way of derogation from Article 4(2) of Commission
Regulation (EC) No 2808/98 of 22 December 1998
laying down detailed rules for the application of
the agrimonetary system for the euro in agricul-
ture (6);

(3) Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula-
tion are in accordance with the opinion of the
Management Committee for Fresh Fruit and Veget-
ables,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Article 3(2) of Regulation (EC) No 293/98 is replaced by
the following:

‘2.
The conversion rate applicable to the flat-rate
amounts referred to in Article 15(1) of Regulation (EC)
No 659/97 and fixed in point 1 of Annex V to that
Regulation shall be the agricultural conversion rate as
determined in accordance with paragraph 1 of this
Article.'

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on 1 June 1999.

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

Done at Brussels, 11 May 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 30, 4.2.1998, p. 16.
(3) OJ L 61, 10.3.1999, p. 27.
(4) OJ L 100, 17.4.1997, p. 22.
(5) OJ L 93, 8.4.1999, p. 11.

(6) OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 36.