Commission Regulation (EC) No 1093/2000 of 24 May 2000 fixing the intervention threshold for lemons for the 2000/01 marketing year
Date: 2000-05-24
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: citrus fruit, guarantee threshold, market intervention, marketing year

25.5.2000

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

L 124/41

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1093/2000

of 24 May 2000

fixing the intervention threshold for lemons for the 2000/01 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

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 27(1) and (2) thereof,

year following the overrun. The implications of this
overrun for lemons should be determined and a reduc-
tion proportional to the size of the overrun should be
fixed.

(5)

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

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 from or
is at risk of suffering from general of structural imbal-
ances giving rise to or liable to give rise to too large a
volume of withdrawals.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 1152/1999 (3) fixes an
intervention threshold for lemons for the 1999/2000
marketing year. The conditions laid down by the above-
mentioned Article 27 have been met for this product.
An intervention threshold must
for
lemons for the 2000/01 marketing year.

therefore be set

The intervention threshold for lemons has to 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 the
overrun of the intervention threshold for lemons must
also be established.

Under the abovementioned Article 27, an overrun of the
intervention threshold gives rise to a reduction in the
Community withdrawal compensation in the marketing

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The intervention threshold for lemons for the 2000/01

1.
marketing year shall be 87 400 tonnes.

The overrun of

2.
the intervention threshold shall be
assessed on the basis of the withdrawals carried out between 1
April 2000 and 31 March 2001.

Article 2

If the quantity subject to withdrawals in the period laid down
in Article 1(2) exceeds the threshold fixed in Article 1(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 production used to calculate the
threshold in question.

Article 3

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, 24 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 139, 2.6.1999, p. 14.