Commission Regulation (EC) No 2233/2000 of 9 October 2000 fixing the intervention thresholds for oranges, satsumas, mandarins and clementines for the 2000/01 marketing year
Date: 2000-10-09
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: citrus fruit, guarantee threshold, market intervention, marketing year

L 256/10

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

10.10.2000

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2233/2000

of 9 October 2000

fixing the intervention thresholds for oranges, satsumas, mandarins and clementines for the
2000/01 marketing year

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(5)

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,

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.

Commission Regulation (EC) No 2080/1999 (3) fixes an
intervention threshold for oranges, satsumas, mandarins
and clementines for the 1999/2000 marketing year. As
the conditions laid down in Article 27 continue to be
intervention thresholds should be again set for
met,
oranges, satsumas, mandarins and clementines.

This 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
fresh 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
must also be established for each product in question.

the intervention
Under Article 27 an overrun of
threshold gives rise to a reduction in the Community
withdrawal in the marketing year following the overrun.
The implications of this overrun for each of the prod-
ucts in question should be determined and a reduction
proportional to the size of the overrun should be fixed,
up to a certain percentage.

The Management Committee for fresh Fruit and Veget-
ables has not delivered an opinion within the time limit
set by its chairman,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

The following intervention thresholds are fixed for the 2000/
01 marketing year:

— oranges:
— satsumas:
— mandarins:
— clementines:

390 300 tonnes
21 000 tonnes
20 600 tonnes
132 800 tonnes.

Article 2

The overrun of the intervention threshold for the products
listed in Article 1 shall be assessed on the basis of the with-
drawals carried out between 1 August 2000 and 31 July 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 in Annex V to Regulation (EC) No 2200/
96 for the 2001/02 marketing year shall be reduced in propor-
tion to the size of the overrun compared with the production
used to calculate the threshold in question.

Article 4

into force on the third day
This Regulation shall enter
following its publication 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, 9 October 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 256, 1.10.1999, p. 44.