Commission Regulation (EC) No 1631/2000 of 25 July 2000 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2077/85 laying down detailed rules for the application of the system of production aid for tinned pineapple and fixing, for the 2000/2001 marketing year, the production aid for tinned pineapple and the minimum price to be paid to pineapple producers
Date: 2000-07-25
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aid system, marketing, preserved product, processed foodstuff, production aid, tropical fruit

26.7.2000

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1631/2000

of 25 July 2000

amending Regulation (EEC) No 2077/85 laying down detailed rules for the application of the
system of production aid for tinned pineapple and fixing, for the 2000/2001 marketing year, the
production aid for tinned pineapple and the minimum price to be paid to pineapple producers

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 525/77 of 14
March 1977 establishing a system of production aid for tinned
pineapple (1), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 1699/
85 (2), and in particular Article 8 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2077/85 of 25 July
1985 (3), as last amended by Regulation (EEC) No 2033/
91 (4), lays down detailed rules for the application of the
system of production aid established by Regulation (EC)
No 525/77 and in particular the products eligible for
aid.

As well as tinned whole pineapple and pieces of pine-
apple,
the Community pineappple sector produces
tinned pineapple ‘crush’ (small pieces or shreds of fruit),
obtained by pressing the fruit and presented in the form
of finely crushed pineapple. The products eligible for aid
should therefore be defined more precisely and Regula-
tion (EEC) No 2077/85 amended to this end.

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1558/91 (5), to which
Article 1(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 2077/85 refers, has
been repealed and replaced by Commisison Regulation
(EC) No 504/97 of 19 March 1997 laying down detailed
rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No
2201/96 as regards the system of production aid for
products processed from fruit and vegetables (6), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1607/1999 (7). The
corresponding references in Regulation (EC) No 504/97
should therefore be specified in the above Article.

The minimum price and the production aid for tinned
pineapple should be fixed for the 2000/2001 marketing
year on the basis of Articles 4 and 5 of Regulation (EEC)
No 525/77 distinguishing between the two types of
products defined in Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) No
2077/85.

The Management Committee for Products Processed
from Fruit and Vegetables has not delivered an opinion
within the time limit set by its Chairman,

(1) OJ L 73, 21.3.1977, p. 46.
(2) OJ L 163, 22.6.1985, p. 12.
(3) OJ L 196, 26.7.1985, p. 28.
(4) OJ L 186, 12.7.1991, p. 32.
(5) OJ L 144, 8.6.1991, p. 31.
(6) OJ L 78, 20.3.1997, p. 14.
(7) OJ L 190, 23.7.1999, p. 11.

Article 1

Article 1 of Regulation (EEC) 2077/85 is replaced by the
following:

‘Article 1

For

the purposes of

1.
the production aid system
provided for in Regulation (EEC) No 525/77 “tinned pine-
apple” means pineapple, without peel and core, having
undergone a heat treatment, packed in hermetically sealed
containers with a covering liquid of sugar syrup and/or
natural fruit juice, covered by CN codes ex 2008 20 51,
ex 2008 20 59,
ex 2008 20 79,
ex 2008 20 71,
ex 2008 20 91 and ex 2008 20 99, and

(a) presented whole or in pieces, in which the drained net
weight of the fruit accounts for at least 58 % of the net
weight of the container, or

(b) presented in finely crushed small pieces or shreds, in
which the drained net weight of the fruit accounts for at
least 73 % of the net weight of the container.

Article 1(2)(o) and (p) and Articles 3, 4 7(1), (2) and
2.
(4), 8, 9, 10, 11(1), 14, 15 and 16(2) to (7) of Regulation
(EC) No 504/97 shall apply to this production aid system.’

Article 2

For the 2000/2001 marketing year:

(a) the minimum price referred to in Article 4 of Regulation
(EEC) No 525/77 to be paid to producers for pineapples
shall be EUR 41,413 per 100 kg net from the producer,

(b) the production aid for tinned pineapple referred to in
Article 5 of that Regulation shall be EUR 111,925 per
100 kg net for products referred to in Article 1(1)(a) of
Regulation (EEC) No 2077/85, and EUR 240,067 per
100 kg net for products referred to in Article 1(1)(b) of
that Regulation.

Article 3

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion in the Official Journal of the European Communities.

It shall apply from 1 June 2000.

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

Done at Brussels, 25 July 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission