Commission Regulation (EC) No 2134/1999 of 7 October 1999 amending Regulation (EC) No 921/1999 as regards bearing the transport costs of fruit and vegetables withdrawn from the market and distributed to people originating in Kosovo
Date: 1999-10-07
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Kosovo, freight rate, fresh fruit, fresh vegetable, refugee, withdrawal from the market

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2134/1999

of 7 October 1999

amending Regulation (EC) No 921/1999 as regards bearing the transport costs of fruit and
vegetables withdrawn from the market and distributed to people originating in Kosovo

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

should consequently be added to Regulation (EC) No
921/1999;

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 30(7) thereof,

(5)

(6)

The Commission should closely monitor the special
measures adopted by the Member States in application
of Article 18 of Regulation (EC) No 659/97;

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Fruit and Vegetables,

Whereas:

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Commission Regulation (EC) No 659/97 (3), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 729/1999 (4),
lays
down detailed rules for applying Regulation (EC) No
2200/96 as regards intervention arrangements in the
fruit and vegetables
sector and especially the free
distribution of products withdrawn from the market as
humanitarian aid outside the Community and bearing
the transport costs of these products between the point
of withdrawal
from the
and the point of
Community;

exit

Commission Regulation (EC) No 921/1999 (5) provides
for special measures to distribute fruit and vegetables
withdrawn from the market to refugees from Kosovo;

Although many refugees have now returned to Kosovo,
they are still in difficulty, as are many other inhabitants
of the province, although not refugees. The free distribu-
tion to them of products withdrawn from the market
should be permitted. In order to maintain their eligibility
for the special measures for refugees provided for in
Regulation (EC) No 921/1999 and to extend these to the
inhabitants of
the words ‘refugees from
Kosovo’ and ‘Kosovo refugees’ should be replaced by
‘people originating in Kosovo’;

the region,

(4)

To facilitate aid to these people, the transport costs from
the Community exit point
to the place of delivery
should also be borne, until further notice. This provision

(1) OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 160, 26.6.1999, p. 80.
(3) OJ L 100, 17.4.1997, p. 22.
(4) OJ L 93, 8.4.1999, p. 11.
(5) OJ L 114, 1.5.1999, p. 46.

Article 1

In the title and Article 1 of Regulation (EC) No 921/1999, the
words
from Kosovo’ and ‘Kosovo refugees’ are
replaced by ‘people originating in Kosovo’.

‘refugees

Article 2

The following Article 1a is inserted after Article 1 of Regula-
tion (EC) No 921/1999.

‘Article 1a

Notwithstanding the first sentence of

1.
the second
subparagraph of Article 15(1) of Regulation (EC) No 659/
97, in the case of the operations referred to in Article 1
above, the distance to be considered for meeting the trans-
port costs shall be the distance between the point of with-
drawal and the point of delivery to people originating in
Kosovo and their host families.

The Member States

2.
concerned shall notify the
Commission of the special measures adopted in application
of Article 18 of Regulation (EC) No 659/97 in order to
ensure that the operations referred to in Article 1 are
carried out correctly.’

Article 3

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

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

Done at Brussels, 7 October 1999.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission