Commission Regulation (EC) No 1368/1999 of 25 June 1999 fixing additional aid for tomato concentrates and their derivatives for the 1998/99 marketing year
Date: 1999-06-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agro-industry, fruit vegetable, marketing year, production aid, supplementary aid for products, vegetable product

26. 6. 1999

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1368/1999

of 25 June 1999

fixing additional aid for tomato concentrates and their derivatives for the 1998/99
marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

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,

(1) Whereas Commission Regulation (EC) No 1518/
98 (3)
the
minimum price and the amount of production aid
for processed tomato products;

the 1998/99 marketing year

for

set

(2) Whereas Article 4(10) of Regulation (EC) No 2201/
96 lays down that the aid set for tomato concen-
trates and their derivatives is to be reduced by
5,37 % so as not to exceed overall expenditure
following the increase in French and Portuguese
quotas for concentrates; whereas additional aid may
be paid after the marketing year if the increase in
French and Portuguese quotas is not entirely used
up;

(3) Whereas,

in accordance with Article 17(2) of
Commission Regulation (EC) No 504/97 (4), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 702/1999 (5), the
Member States sent the Commission detailes of the
quantities of tomatoes processed within quota and
in excess of the quota; whereas the French and
concentrates were not
Portuguese quotas
entirely used up in the 1998/99 marketing year;

for

whereas, therefore, additional aid supplementary to
that set for tomato concentrates and their deriva-
tives in Regulation (EC) No 1518/98 should be
paid to processors who have submitted aid applica-
tions in accordance with Article 11(4) of Regulation
(EC) No 504/97;

(4) Whereas the measures provided for in this Regula-
tion are in accordance with the opinion of the
Management Committee for Products Processed
from Fruit and Vegetables,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

1.
For the 1998/99 marketing year, the additional aid
for tomato concentrate, juice and flakes as referred to in
the second subparagraph of Article 4(10) of Regulation
(EC) No 2201/96 shall be as set out in the Annex hereto.

2.
The agency referred to in Article 11(1) of Regulation
(EC) No 504/97 shall pay processors the additional aid
fixed by this Regulation on the basis of aid applications
submitted in accordance with that Article.

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the third day
following 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 Brussels, 25 June 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 29.
(2) OJ L 303, 6.11.1997, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 200, 16.7.1998, p. 29.
(4) OJ L 78, 20.3.1997, p. 14.
(5) OJ L 89, 1.4.1999, p. 26.

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ANNEX

SUPPLEMENT TO PRODUCTION AID

1998/1999 marketing year

Product

EUR/100 kg net

1. Tomato concentrates with a dry weight content of 28 % or more but less

than 30 %

2. Tomato flakes

3. Tomato juice with a dry weight content of 7 % or more but less than

12 %:

(a) with a dry weight content of 7 % or more but less than 8 %

(b) with a dry weight content of 8 % or more but less than 10 %

(c) with a dry weight content of 10 % or more

4. Tomato juice with a dry weight content of less than 7 %:

(a) with a dry weight content of 5 % or more

(b) with a dry weight content of 4,5 % or more but less than 5 %

0,189

0,630

0,049

0,059

0,071

0,040

0,031