Commission Regulation (EC) No 2715/1999 of 20 December 1999 setting the intervention threshold for tomatoes for the 2000 marketing year
Date: 1999-12-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: market intervention, marketing year, pip fruit, quantitative restriction

L 327/34

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

21. 12. 1999

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2715/1999

of 20 December 1999

setting the intervention threshold for tomatoes for the 2000 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

(4)

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,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Article 27(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 provides
for the possibility of setting an intervention threshold if
the market in a product listed in Annex II thereto is
suffering or at risk of suffering from widespread struc-
tural imbalances giving, or liable to give rise to too large
a volume of withdrawals. Such a development would be
likely to cause budget problems for the Community;

an intervention threshold was fixed for tomatoes for the
1999 marketing year in Commission Regulation (EC) No
13/1999 (3). Since the conditions laid down in the
abovementioned Article 27 continue to be met for that
product, a new threshold should be set for the 2000
marketing year equal to that set for the 1999 marketing
year, and the period to be taken into account for the
assessment of the overrun of the threshold should also
be determined;

pursuant to the abovementioned Article 27, an overrun
of the intervention threshold results in a reduction in the
Community withdrawal compensation in the marketing
in which the threshold is
year
exceeded. The consequences of such an overrun should
be determined and a reduction in proportion to the size

following the year

the overrun fixed, but

of
percentage;

restricted to a certain

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 intervention threshold for tomatoes for the 2000

1.
marketing year shall be 360 000 tonnes.

2.
The overrun of the intervention threshold laid down in
paragraph 1 shall be assessed on the basis of withdrawals
effected between 1 November 1999 and 31 October 2000.

Article 2

If the quantity subject to withdrawals during the period set in
Article 1(2) exceeds the threshold set
the
Community withdrawal compensation set in Annex V to Regu-
lation (EC) No 2200/96 for the following marketing year shall
be reduced in proportion to the size of the overrun based on
the production used to calculate the relevant threshold.

in Article 1(1),

However, the reduction in the Community compensation shall
not exceed 30 %.

Article 3

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, 20 December 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.
(3) OJ L 4, 8.1.1999, p. 6.