Commission Regulation (EC) No 1511/2000 of 12 July 2000 setting the intervention threshold for apples for the 2000/01 marketing year
Date: 2000-07-12
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: guarantee threshold, market intervention, marketing year, pip fruit

L 174/16

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

13.7.2000

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1511/2000

of 12 July 2000

setting the intervention threshold for apples 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 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
that an intervention threshold is to be set if the market
in a product listed in Annex II thereto is suffering or at
risk of suffering from widespread structural imbalances
giving or liable to give rise to too large a volume of
withdrawals.

An intervention threshold for apples was set for the
1999/2000 marketing year in Commission Regulation
(EC) No 1541/1999 (3). Since the conditions laid down
in the abovementioned Article 27 continue to be met
for that product, an intervention threshold for apples
should be set for the 2000/01 marketing year.

The intervention threshold for apples should be set on
the basis of a percentage of the average quantity of
produce, intended for consumption fresh, of the last five
marketing years for which data are available. The period
to be taken into account for assessing 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

following the year

exceeded. The consequences of such an overrun should
be determined and a reduction in proportion to the size
of the overrun set.

(5)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The intervention threshold for apples for the 2000/01

1.
marketing year shall be 486 900 tonnes.

Any overrun of

2.
the intervention threshold shall be
assessed on the basis of withdrawals effected between 1 June
2000 and 31 May 2001.

Article 2

If the quantity of apples subject to withdrawals during the
period laid down in Article 1(2) exceeds the threshold laid
down in Article 1(1), the Community withdrawal compensa-
tion set under Article 26 of Regulation (EC) No 2200/96 for
the following marketing year shall be reduced in proportion to
the overrun based on the production used to
the size of
calculate the relevant threshold.

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, 12 July 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 180, 15.7.1999, p. 3.