Commission Regulation (EC) No 1925/2000 of 11 September 2000 establishing the operative events for the exchange rates to be applied when calculating certain amounts provided for by the mechanisms of Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 on the common organisation of the market in fishery and aquaculture products
Date: 2000-09-11
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aquaculture, common organisation of markets, fishery product

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1925/2000

of 11 September 2000

establishing the operative events for the exchange rates to be applied when calculating certain
amounts provided for by the mechanisms of Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 on the common
organisation of the market in fishery and aquaculture products

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2799/98 of 15
December 1998 establishing agrimonetary arrangements for
the euro (1), and in particular Article 3(2) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

(5)

All the specific definitions of operative events for the
exchange rates for calculations provided for by the
mechanisms of Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 of
17 December 1999 on the common organisation of the
market in fishery and aquaculture products (2) should be
collated in a single Regulation.

the

Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 has made a number of
changes to the aids available to producers' organisations,
in particular
the operational
introduction of
programmes and amendments to the private storage aid
implementing regulation,
mechanisms. The previous
Commission Regulation (EC) No 3516/93 (3),
as
amended by Regulation (EC) No 963/1999 (4), does not
have provisions on exchange rates to be applied for
these new mechanisms. For these reasons, Regulation
(EC) No 3516/93 should be replaced by this Regulation.

The revised agrimonetary arrangements outlined in
Regulation (EC) No 2799/98 support the need to replace
Regulation (EC) No 3516/93 since references to the
agrimonetary conversion rate are no longer applicable.

The operative events for financial compensation and
carry-over aid should be consistent with the operative
events
amounts
involved in their calculation.

for withdrawal prices

and other

The possibility for producers' organisations to use a
margin of tolerance in the application of the withdrawal
price and other prices in the common organisation of
the markets in fishery and aquaculture products is
constrained by the necessity of informing the Member
State the level of the modified price at least two days
before it is due to become applicable. Producers' organ-
isations must therefore know the exchange rate for these
prices in advance of the period for which it is to be
applicable in order that they can meet this obligation to
inform the competent authorities in advance. The opera-

(1) OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 17, 21.1.2000, p. 22.
(3) OJ L 320, 22.12.1993, p. 10.
(4) OJ L 119, 7.5.1999, p. 26.

(6)

(7)

tive event must be set before the period of its applica-
tion.

An operative event should be introduced for the finan-
cial compensation for the operational programmes. This
should be the first day of the fishing year so that the
producers' organisation can know the level of aid in
advance.

An operative event should be established for the rate of
exchange to be applied to the different prices notified to
the Commission in the context of the common organ-
isation of the market. This operative event must corre-
spond to a single day of the period for which the price is
calculated. Since practical use is made of this informa-
tion a posteriori, the operative event should be estab-
lished as the last day of the period for which the price is
calculated.

(8)

The measures provided for in this Regulation are in
accordance with the opinion of
the Management
Committee for Fishery Products,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

This Regulation establishes
the
exchange rates to be used for the mechanisms laid down in
Regulation (EC) No 104/2000.

the operative events

for

The exchange rate to be used shall be the rate most recently
fixed by the European Central Bank (ECB) prior to the opera-
tive event as set out in Article 1 of Commission Regulation
(EC) No 2808/98 (5).

Article 2

For the fisheries sector, the operative event for the exchange
rate for the withdrawal price and for the amounts linked to
that price, which are listed in Annex I, shall be the 22nd day of
the month before the operation took place.

Article 3

The operative event for the exchange rate applicable to the
financial compensation provided for in Article 21 of Regula-
tion (EC) No 104/2000 shall be the 22nd day of the month
before the operation took place.

(5) OJ L 349, 24.12.1998, p. 36.

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Article 4

The operative event for the exchange rate applicable to the
carry-over aid provided for in Article 23 of Regulation (EC) No
104/2000, to the flat-rate aid provided for in Article 24(4) of
the same Regulation and to the private storage aid provided for
in Article 25 of the same Regulation shall be the 22nd day of
the month before the stored products were withdrawn.

Article 5

compensation for operational programmes

The operative event for the exchange rate applicable to the
financial
as
provided for in Article 10(2) of Regulation (EC) No 104/2000
shall be the first day of the fishing year for which the opera-
tional programme was established.

Article 6

The operative event for the exchange rate applicable to the
compensatory allowance for tuna for canning provided for in
Article 27(1) of Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 shall be the
second day of the month the product is delivered.

Article 7

In all cases where an advance may be granted in respect of
measure provided for in Regulation (EC) No 104/2000, the

operative event for the exchange rate shall be the event corre-
sponding to the measure taken, as set out in Articles 2 to 6.

Article 8

The exchange rate applicable to average market prices notified
under Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2210/93 (1) shall be
the exchange rate in force on the last day of the period for
which the price is calculated.

Article 9

Regulation (EC) No 3516/93 is hereby repealed.

References to the repealed Regulation (EC) No 3516/93 shall
be construed as referring to this Regulation and should be read
in accordance with the correlation table in Annex II.

Article 10

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

It shall be applicable from 1 January 2001.

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

Done at Brussels, 11 September 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 197, 6.8.1993, p. 8.

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ANNEX I

1. Community withdrawal price provided for in Article 20(1) of Regulation (EC) No 104/2000.

2. Community selling price provided for in Article 22 of Regulation (EC) No 104/2000.

3. Standard value to be deducted from financial compensation as provided for in Article 21(5) of Regulation (EC) No

104/2000.

4. Unit amount of Community carry-over aid provided for in Article 23 of Regulation (EC) No 104/2000.

5. Unit amount of flat-rate aid for autonomous withdrawal provided for in Article 24(4) of Regulation (EC) No

104/2000.

6. Community selling price for private storage aid provided for in Article 25(1) of Regulation (EC) No 104/2000.

ANNEX II

Regulation (EC) No 3516/93

This Regulation

Article 1

Article 2

Article 3

Article 4

Article 5

Article 6

Article 7

Article 8

Article 9

Article 10

Article 11

Article 12

Article 2

Article 3

Article 4

Article 4

Article 6

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Article 7

Article 8

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Article 9

Article 10