Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) amending Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 on the common organisation of the markets in processed fruit and vegetable products
Date: 1999-07-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Portugal, common organisation of markets, fruit vegetable, marketing year, production quota

26.10.1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 307 E/31

Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) amending Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 on the common
organisation of the markets in processed fruit and vegetable products

(1999/C 307 E/04)

COM(1999) 376 final (cid:151) 1999/0161(CNS)

(Submitted by the Commission on 20 July 1999)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European Union,
and in particular Article 37 thereof,

(4) Whereas

this Regulation

1999/2000
marketing year; whereas this marketing year started on
15 June 1999; whereas this Regulation should apply from
that date,

concerns

the

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,

Article 1

The following paragraph 3a is added to Article 6 of Regulation
(EC) No 2201/96:

Having regard to the opinion of
Committee,

the Economic and Social

(cid:145)3a.

(1) Whereas Article 6 of Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96
of 28 October 1996 (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC)
No 2199/97 (2), lays down that the quota fixed for granting
production aid for products processed from tomatoes is to
be shared out each year among the Member States; whereas
for the 1999/2000 marketing year this apportionment is to
be calculated on the basis of
the average quantities
produced in compliance with minimum prices during
1997/1998 and 1998/1999; whereas
from 2000/2001
onwards
to be based on the average quantities
produced during the three marketing years preceding the
marketing year for which the allocation is made;

is

it

(2) Whereas in Portugal the 1997/1998 marketing year was
characterised by extremely unfavourable weather conditions
which led to an unusually sharp fall in production; whereas
an allocation of quotas on the basis of this unusually low
production in Portugal would not
the
production potential
in this Member State under normal
weather conditions;

take account of

(3) Whereas,

for

the

exceptionally,

two marketing years
concerned by the unusual fall in production of tomatoes
for processing - 1999/2000 and 2000/2001 - only,
the
Portugal should be given an additional quota for
production of
tomato concentrates to make up for the
loss of quota resulting from the abnormal conditions in
1997/1998 without
in the other
Member States; whereas this additional quantity should
be fixed at 83 468 tonnes for 1999/2000 and calculated,
for 2000/2001, by replacing the quantity actually processed
during the 1997/1998 marketing year by the quantity of
884 592 tonnes originally allocated to Portugal;

injuring producers

(1) OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 29.
(2) OJ L 303, 6.11.1997, p. 1.

Notwithstanding paragraph 3, an additional quantity of
fresh tomatoes intended for the production of concentrate
for 1999/2000 and
allocated to Portugal
shall be
2000/2001. This quantity shall be:

(cid:151) 83 468 tonnes for 1999/2000, and

(cid:151) for 2000/2001, the difference between the quantity
calculated in accordance with paragraph 3 and that
calculated
fresh
by
quantity
the production of
tomatoes used in Portugal
concentrate in the 1997/1998 marketing year by
884 592 tonnes.

replacing

the

for

of

fresh tomatoes intended for

The volume of fresh tomatoes referred to in paragraph 1
and the quantity of
the
production of concentrate referred to in the first indent
of
the second subparagraph of paragraph 2 shall be
increased, for these two marketing years concerned, by
the additional quantity allocated to Portugal.(cid:146)

Article 2

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

It shall apply from 15 June 1999.

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