Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) amending Regulation (EC) No 1577/96 introducing a specific measure in respect of certain grain legumes
Date: 1999-09-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aid per hectare, aid system, leguminous vegetable, market stabilisation, utilised agricultural area

30.11.1999

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 342 E/41

Proposal for a Council Regulation (EC) amending Regulation (EC) No 1577/96 introducing a
specific measure in respect of certain grain legumes

(1999/C 342 E/04)

COM(1999) 428 final (cid:151) 1999/0182(CNS)

(Submitted by the Commission on 9 September 1999)

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

(cid:145)Article 3

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community, and in particular Articles 36 and 37 thereof,

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament,

Having regard to the opinion of
Committee,

the Economic and Social

(1) Whereas Regulation (EC) No 1577/96 (1)

introduces a

specific measure in respect of certain grain legumes;

(2) Whereas the markets for the crops covered by this measure
are different: animal feed for vetches and human food for
lentils and chick peas; whereas, because the maximum
guaranteed area system has been applied to those crops
it has not been possible to
taken together until now,
manage properly the development of land under crops in
view of
the increase in the area under vetches since
application of the system started; whereas, as a result, the
maximum guaranteed area should be subdivided so as
better to direct grain legume production in the European
Union;

(3) Whereas for the purposes of applying the system the
should be

Management Committee for Dried Fodder
replaced by the Management Committee for Cereals,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

1. Where the areas for which aid is requested under this
Regulation exceed the maximum guaranteed areas fixed in
paragraph 2 of this Article, the aid to be paid for that
marketing year shall be reduced proportionately.

2.
The maximum guaranteed areas are fixed at 160 000
hectares for lentils and chick peas and 240 000 hectares for
vetches. Where a maximum area is not reached during a
marketing year the unused balance shall be reallocated to
the other maximum guaranteed area for that marketing year
before an overrun occurs.(cid:146)

2. In Article 6, paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

The Commission shall

(cid:145)1.
lay down detailed rules of
application in accordance with the procedure provided for
in Article 23 of Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 (2).
In
accordance with that procedure,
the Commission shall
determine the overruns in the maximum guaranteed areas
than 15
fix the definitive aid by no later
and shall
November of the marketing year in question.(cid:146)

Article 2

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

Article 1

It shall apply with effect from the 2000/2001 marketing year.

Regulation (EC) No 1577/96 is amended as follows:

1. Article 3 is replaced by the following:

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

(1) OJ L 206, 16.8.1996, p. 4. Regulation last amended by Commission

(2) OJ L 181, 1.7.1992, p. 21. Regulation last amended by Regulation

Regulation (EC) No 1826/97 (OJ L 260, 23.9.1997, p. 11).

(EC) No 1253/1999 (OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 18).