Council Regulation (EC) No 2701/1999 of 14 December 1999 amending Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 on the common organisation of the markets in processed fruit and vegetable products
Date: 1999-12-14
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: Portugal, common organisation of markets, fruit product, pip fruit, vegetable product

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 2701/1999

of 14 December 1999

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

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

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

Member States; 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;

Having regard to the proposal from the Commission,

(4)

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

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (1),

Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
Committee (2),

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Article 6 of Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 (3) 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; for the 1999/2000
marketing year this apportionment is to be calculated on
the basis of the average quantities produced in compli-
ance with minimum prices during 1997/1998 and
1998/1999; from 2000/2001 onwards it is to be based
on the average quantities produced during the three
marketing years preceding the marketing year for which
the allocation is made;

In Portugal the 1997/1998 marketing year was charac-
terised by extremely unfavourable weather conditions
which led to an unusually sharp fall in production; an
allocation of quotas on the basis of this unusually low
production in Portugal would not take account of the
production potential in this Member State under normal
weather conditions;

fall

in production of

Exceptionally, for the two marketing years concerned by
the unusual
for
processing — 1999/2000 and 2000/2001 — only,
Portugal should be given an additional quota for the
production of tomato concentrates to make up for the
loss of quota resulting from the abnormal conditions in
injuring producers in the other
1997/1998 without

tomatoes

Article 1

The following paragraph shall be inserted in Article 6 of Regu-
lation (EC) No 2201/96:

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

— 83 468 tonnes for 1999/2000, and

— for 2000/2001,

the difference between the quantity
calculated in accordance with paragraph 3 and that
calculated by replacing the quantity of fresh tomatoes
used in Portugal for the production of concentrate in
the 1997/1998 marketing year by 884 592 tonnes.

The volume of fresh tomatoes referred to in paragraph 1
and the quantity of fresh tomatoes intended for the produc-
tion 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.’

Article 2

(1) Opinion delivered 2 December 1999 (not yet published in the Offi-

cial Journal).

(2) Opinion delivered on 20 October 1999 (not yet published in the

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

Official Journal).

(3) OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 29. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 2199/97 (OJ L 303, 6.11.1997, p. 1).

It shall apply from 15 June 1999.

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

Done at Brussels, 14 December 1999.

For the Council

The President

K. HEMILÄ