Commission Regulation (EC) No 1097/1999 of 27 May 1999 fixing the intervention thresholds for cauliflowers, peaches, nectarines and table grapes for the 1999/2000 marketing year
Date: 1999-05-27
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: grape, guarantee threshold, leaf vegetable, market intervention, marketing year, stone fruit

28. 5. 1999

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Official Journal of the European Communities

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1097/1999

of 27 May 1999

fixing the intervention thresholds for cauliflowers, peaches, nectarines and table
grapes for the 1999/2000 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

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
market in fruit and vegetables (1), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 857/1999 (2), and in particular Article
27(1) and (2) thereof,

(1) Whereas the first paragraph of Article 27 of Regu-
lation (EC) No 2200/96 provides for an interven-
tion threshold to be fixed if
in a
product listed in Annex II is suffering or at risk of
suffering from widespread structural
imbalances
giving or liable to give rise to too large a volume of
withdrawals; whereas such a development might
cause budget problems for the Community;

the market

(2) Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1068/
98 (3)
fixed an intervention threshold for cauli-
flowers, peaches, nectarines and table grapes for the
1998/99 marketing year; whereas the conditions
laid down in the abovementioned Article 27 have
been met for certain products; whereas intervention
thresholds for cauliflowers, peaches, nectarines and
table grapes should therefore be fixed;

(3) 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 natural state over the last five
for which data are available;
marketing years
whereas the period to be taken into account for
assessing the overrun of the intervention threshold
must also be established for each product in ques-
tion;

(4) Whereas, pursuant to the abovementioned Article
27, an overrun of the intervention threshold gives
rise to a reduction in the Community withdrawal
compensation in the marketing year following the
overrun; whereas the implications of this overrun
for each of the products in question should be
determined and a reduction proportional to the size

(1) OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 108, 27.4.1999, p. 7.
(3) OJ L 153, 27.5.1998, p. 9.

of the overrun should be fixed, up to a certain
percentage;

(5) 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

The following intervention thresholds are fixed for the
1999/2000 marketing year:

(cid:190) cauliflowers:

112 300 tonnes

(cid:190) peaches:

254 700 tonnes

(cid:190) nectarines:

83 700 tonnes

(cid:190) table grapes:

165 300 tonnes.

Article 2

The overrun of the intervention threshold for the prod-
ucts listed in Article 1 shall be assessed on the basis of the
withdrawals carried out in the period 1 March 1999 to 28
February 2000.

Article 3

the

threshold fixed in Article 1,

If the quantity subject to withdrawals of one of the prod-
ucts listed in Article 1 in the period laid down in Article
2 exceeds
the
Community withdrawal compensation fixed pursuant to
Article 26 of Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 shall be
reduced in the following marketing year in proportion to
the size of the overrun based on 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 day of 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, 27 May 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission