Commission Regulation (EC) No 2241/2000 of 10 October 2000 reducing, for the 2000/01 marketing year, the amount of aid for small citrus fruits delivered for processing following an overrun of the processing threshold
Date: 2000-10-10
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: agro-industry, aid system, citrus fruit, guarantee threshold, production aid

L 257/8

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

11.10.2000

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 2241/2000

of 10 October 2000

reducing, for the 2000/01 marketing year, the amount of aid for small citrus fruits delivered for
processing following an overrun of the processing threshold

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2202/96 of 28
October 1996 introducing a Community aid scheme for
producers of certain citrus fruits (1), as amended by Regulation
(EC) No 858/1999 (2), and in particular Article 6 thereof,

tonnes was established. Therefore, the amounts of aid
for small citrus fruits laid down in the Annex to Regula-
tion (EC) No 2202/96 for 2000/01 marketing year must
be reduced by 29 %.

(3)

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

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

lays down that,

Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 2202/96 establishes a
processing threshold for small citrus fruits of 320 000
tonnes. Article 5(2)
for a given
marketing year, overrunning of the processing threshold
is to be assessed on the basis of the average of the
quantities processed under the aid scheme during the
three marketing years preceding the marketing year in
question, or during an equivalent period. When an
overrun has been established,
the aid fixed for the
marketing year in question in the Annex to that Regula-
tion is to be reduced by 1 % per tranche of the overrun
equal to 3 200 tonnes.

The Member States, in accordance with Article 22(1)(b)
of Commission Regulation (EC) No 1169/97 of 26 June
1997 laying down detailed rules for the application of
Council Regulation (EC) No 2202/96 introducing a
Community aid scheme for producers of certain citrus
fruits (3), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 2729/
1999 (4), communicated the quantities of small citrus
fruits processed under the aid scheme. Based on this
information, a processing threshold overrun of 92 915

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Pursuant to Article 5(2) of Regulation (EC) No 2202/96, the
amount of aid for small citrus fruit delivered for processing for
the 2000/01 marketing year shall be:

Multiannual contracts

Annual contracts

Individual producers

(EUR/100 kg)

Mandarins

Clementines

Satsumas

7,37

6,41

5,77

6,86

5,96

5,37

8,15

7,09

6,38

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter
into force on the third day
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, 10 October 2000.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 49.
(2) OJ L 108, 27.4.1999, p. 8.
(3) OJ L 169, 27.6.1997, p. 15.
(4) OJ L 328, 22.12.1999, p. 35.