Council Regulation (EC) No 811/2000 of 17 April 2000 amending Regulation (EC) No 1577/96 introducing a specific measure in respect of certain grain legumes
Date: 2000-04-17
Institutions: Council of the European Union
Subjects: EU control, aid per hectare, aid system, leguminous vegetable, market stabilisation, utilised agricultural area

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COUNCIL REGULATION (EC) No 811/2000

of 17 April 2000

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

THE COUNCIL OF THE EUROPEAN UNION,

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 (1),

Having regard to the opinion of the European Parliament (2),

(4)

(5)

For the purposes of applying the system, the Manage-
ment Committee for Dried Fodder set up by Article 17
of Regulation (EC) No 603/95 (5) should be replaced by
the Management Committee for Cereals set up by Article
23 of Regulation (EEC) No 1766/92 (6).

It is appropriate that before the end of the 2002/2003
marketing year,
the Commission should produce a
report on the application of the present system, accom-
panied, where necessary, by appropriate proposals.

Having regard to the opinion of the Economic and Social
Committee (3),

(6)

Regulation (EC) No 1577/96 should therefore be
amended,

Whereas:

Regulation (EC) No 1577/96 (4)
measure in respect of certain grain legumes.

introduced a specific

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

(1)

(2)

(3)

The markets for the crops covered by the said measure
are different, namely animal feed for vetches and human
food for lentils and chickpeas. Because the maximum
area system applied to those crops taken together
hitherto has not made it possible to manage properly
the development of
in
particular, of the increase in the area under vetches since
the
application of
maximum guaranteed area should be subdivided so as
better
grain-legume production in the
Community.

the system started. As a result,

land under crops by reason,

to direct

The maintenance of crops of grain legumes such as
lentils, chickpeas and vetches is in the Community
economic interest, both as regards the use made of the
products and their suitability for the production areas.
Given the deficit
in protein crops in the European
Union, the Commission should examine the possibilities
for improving the system without cutting the level of
aid.

(1) OJ C 342, 30.11.1999, p.41.
(2) Opinion delivered on 17 March 2000 (not yet published in the

Official Journal).

(3) OJ C 51, 23.2.2000, p. 29.
(4) OJ L 206, 16.8.1996, p. 4. Regulation as amended by Commission

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

Article 1

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

1. Article 3 shall be replaced by the following:

‘Article 3

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

2.
The maximum guaranteed areas shall be fixed at
160 000 hectares for lentils and chickpeas, and 240 000
hectares for the vetches referred to in point (c) of Article 1.
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.’

(5) OJ L 63, 21.3.1995, p. 1. Regulation as amended by Regulation

(EC) No 1347/95 (OJ L 131, 15.6.1995, p. 1).

(6) OJ L 181, 1.7.1992, p. 21. Regulations as last amended by Regula-

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

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2. In Article 6:

(a) paragraph 1 shall be replaced by the following:

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

(*) OJ L 181, 1.7.1992, p. 21. Regulation as

last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1253/1999 (OJ L
160, 26.6.1999, p. 18).’;

(b) paragraph 3 shall be replaced by the following:

‘3.
By the end of the marketing year 2002/2003 at
the latest, the Commission shall submit a report on
the application of this system, accompanied, if neces-
sary, by appropriate proposals.’

Article 2

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

It shall apply with effect
year.

from the 2000/2001 marketing

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

Done at Luxembourg, 17 April 2000.

For the Council

The President

L. CAPOULAS SANTOS