Commission Regulation (EC) No 931/2000 of 4 May 2000 fixing the intervention thresholds for cauliflowers, peaches, nectarines and table grapes for the 2000/01 marketing year
Date: 2000-05-04
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: grape, guarantee threshold, leaf vegetable, market intervention, marketing year, stone fruit

5.5.2000

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 108/7

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 931/2000

of 4 May 2000

fixing the intervention thresholds for cauliflowers, peaches, nectarines and table grapes for the
2000/01 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

(5)

should be determined and a reduction proportional to
the size of the overrun should be fixed.

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

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)

(4)

Article 27(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 provides
for an intervention threshold to be fixed if the market in
a product listed in Annex II thereto is suffering or at risk
of suffering from imbalances giving or liable to give rise
to too large a volume of withdrawals. Such a develop-
ment might cause budget problems for the Community.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1097/1999 (3) fixes an
intervention threshold for cauliflowers, peaches, nectar-
ines and table grapes for the 1999/2000 marketing year.
The conditions laid down in the abovementioned Article
27 are still met for those products and consequently
intervention thresholds should be fixed for cauliflowers,
peaches, nectarines and table grapes for the 2000/01
marketing year.

The 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
natural state over the last five marketing years for which
data are available. The period to be taken into account
for assessing an overrun of the intervention threshold
must also be established for each product.

Pursuant to the abovementioned Article 27, an overrun
of the intervention threshold gives rise to a reduction in
the Community withdrawal
compensation in the
marketing year following the overrun. The implications
of this overrun for each of the products in question

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The following intervention thresholds shall apply for
2000/01 marketing year:

the

— cauliflowers:
— peaches:
— nectarines:
— table grapes:

111 700 tonnes,
238 200 tonnes,
83 200 tonnes,
160 200 tonnes.

Article 2

Overruns of the intervention thresholds for the products listed
in Article 1 shall be assessed on the basis of withdrawals
carried out in the period 1 March 2000 to 28 February 2001.

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 pursuant to Article 26 of Regulation (EC)
No 2200/96 shall be reduced in the following marketing year
in proportion to the size of the overrun based on the produc-
tion used to calculate the threshold.

Article 4

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion 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, 4 May 2000.

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 133, 28.5.1999, p. 23.