Commission Regulation (EC) No 1152/1999 of 1 June 1999 fixing the intervention threshold for lemons for the 1999/2000 marketing year
Date: 1999-06-01
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: citrus fruit, guarantee threshold, market intervention, marketing year

L 139/14

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Official Journal of the European Communities

2. 6. 1999

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1152/1999

of 1 June 1999

fixing the intervention threshold for lemons 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 Article 27(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2200/
96 provides for an intervention threshold to be
fixed if the market in a product listed in Annex II
is suffering or is at risk of suffering from wide-
spread 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;

(2) Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1068/
98 (3) has
fixed an intervention threshold for
lemons for the 1998/1999 marketing year; whereas
the conditions laid down by the abovementioned
Article 27 have been met for this product; whereas
an intervention threshold must therefore be set for
lemons for the 1999/2000 marketing year;

(3) Whereas

the

intervention threshold for

each
product has to be fixed on the basis of a percentage
of the average production intended for consump-
tion in the natural state over the last five marketing
years for which data are available; whereas the
period to be taken into account for assessing the
overrun of the intervention threshold must also be
established for this product;

(4) Whereas, under the abovementioned Article 27, an
overrun of the intervention threshold gives rise to a
withdrawal
reduction

Community

the

in

compensation in the marketing year following the
overrun; whereas the implications of this overrun
for the product in question should be determined
and a reduction proportional to the size 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 intervention threshold for

1.
marketing year shall be fixed at 73 100 tonnes.

the 1999/2000

The overrun of the intervention threshold shall be
the withdrawals carried out

2.
assessed on the basis of
between 1 April 1999 and 31 March 2000.

Article 2

If the quantity subject to withdrawals in the period laid
down in Article 1(2) exceeds the threshold fixed in Article
the Community withdrawal compensation fixed
1(1),
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 3

(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.

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

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Official Journal of the European Communities

L 139/15

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

Done at Brussels, 1 June 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission