Commission Regulation (EC) No 2080/1999 of 30 September 1999 fixing the intervention thresholds for oranges, satsumas, mandarins and clementines for the 1999/2000 marketing year
Date: 1999-09-30
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: citrus fruit, guarantee threshold, market intervention, marketing year

L 256/44

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

1. 10. 1999

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2080/1999

of 30 September 1999

fixing the intervention thresholds for oranges, satsumas, mandarins and clementines 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,

in a product

(1) Whereas Article 27(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2200/96
provides for an intervention threshold to be fixed if the
market
thereto is
suffering or at risk of suffering from imbalances giving
or liable to give rise to too large a volume of with-
drawals; whereas
such a development might cause
budget problems for the Community;

listed in Annex II

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The following intervention thresholds are fixed for
1999/2000 marketing year:

the

— oranges
— satsumas
— mandarins
— clementines

414 200 tonnes
22 100 tonnes
37 900 tonnes
132 800 tonnes.

Article 2

(2) Whereas the conditions laid down in Article 27 are met
for certain products and intervention thresholds for
oranges, satsumas, mandarins and clementines should
therefore be fixed;

The overrun of the intervention threshold for the products
listed in Article 1 shall be assessed on the basis of the with-
drawals carried out between 1 August 1999 and 31 July 2000.

(3) Whereas this intervention threshold for each of those
products should be fixed on the basis of a percentage of
the average production intended for consumption in the
fresh 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 each product in
question;

rise

to a

(4) Whereas, under Article 27, an overrun of the interven-
tion threshold gives
reduction in the
Community withdrawal compensation in the marketing
year following the overrun; whereas the implications of
this overrun for each of the products in question should
be determined and a reduction proportional to the size
of
the overrun should be fixed, up to a certain
percentage;

Article 3

If the quantity of one of the products listed in Article 1
withdrawn in the period laid down in Article 2 exceeds the
threshold fixed in Article 1,
the Community withdrawal
compensation fixed in Annex V to Regulation (EC) No
2200/96 for the 2000/01 marketing year shall be reduced in
proportion to the size of
the overrun compared with the
production used to calculate the threshold in question.

The Community withdrawal compensation shall not, however,
be reduced by more than 30 %.

Article 4

into force on the third day
This Regulation shall enter
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, 30 September 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.