Commission Regulation (EC) No 1541/1999 of 14 July 1999 setting the intervention threshold for apples for the 1999/2000 marketing year
Date: 1999-07-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: guarantee threshold, market intervention, marketing year, pip fruit

15. 7. 1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 180/3

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1541/1999

of 14 July 1999

setting the intervention threshold for apples 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
1257/1999 (2), and in particular Article 27(1) and (2) thereof,

(1) Whereas Article 27(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2200/96
provides for the possibility of setting an intervention
threshold if the market in a product listed in Annex II
thereto is suffering or 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 would be likely to cause budget problems
for the Community;

(2) Whereas an intervention threshold was set for apples for
the 1998/99 marketing year in Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1547/98 (3); whereas, since the conditions laid
down in the abovementioned Article 27 continue to be
met for that product, a new threshold should be set for
the 1999/2000 marketing year on the basis of a
percentage of the average quantity of produce intended
for consumption fresh of the last five marketing years
for which data are available; whereas the period to be
taken into account for the assessment of the overrun of
the threshold should also be determined;

(3) Whereas, pursuant to the abovementioned Article 27, an
overrun of the intervention threshold results in a reduc-
tion in the Community withdrawal compensation in the
in which the
following the year
marketing year
threshold is exceeded; whereas the consequences of such
an overrun should be determined and a reduction in

proportion to the size of the overrun set, but restricted
to a certain percentage;

(4) Whereas the measures provided for in this Regulation
are in accordance with the opinion of the Management
Committee for fresh Fruit and Vegetables,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The intervention threshold for apples for 1999/2000

1.
marketing year shall be 486 900 tonnes.

2.
The overrun of the intervention threshold laid down in
paragraph 1 shall be assessed on the basis of withdrawals
effected between 1 June 1999 and 31 May 2000.

Article 2

If the quantity of apples subject to withdrawals during the
period laid down in Article 1(2) exceeds the threshold laid
down in Article 1(1), the Community withdrawal compensa-
tion set under Article 26 of Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 for
the following marketing year shall be reduced in proportion to
the size of
the overrun based on the production used to
calculate the relevant threshold.

However,
compensation shall not exceed 30 %.

the

reduction in the Community withdrawal

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion 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, 14 July 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 80.
(3) OJ L 202, 18.7.1998, p. 23.