Commission Regulation (EC) No 471/2001 of 8 March 2001 amending Regulation (EEC) No 1858/93 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation (EEC) No 404/93 as regards the aid scheme to compensate for loss of income from marketing in the banana sector
Date: 2001-03-08
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: aid to agriculture, financial loss, marketing, producer organisation, tropical fruit

L 67/52

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

9.3.2001

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 471/2001

of 8 March 2001

amending Regulation (EEC) No 1858/93 laying down detailed rules for applying Council Regulation
(EEC) No 404/93 as regards the aid scheme to compensate for loss of income from marketing in the
banana sector

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 404/93 of 13
February 1993 on the common organisation of the market in
bananas (1), as last amended by Regulation (EC) No 216/
2001 (2), and in particular Article 14 thereof,

Whereas:

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 1858/93 (3), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1467/1999 (4),
lays
down detailed rules for applying Regulation (EEC) No
404/93 as regards the aid scheme to compensate for loss
of income from marketing in the banana sector. Article
7 of that Regulation sets out the timetable for submis-
sion of applications for advances on compensatory aid
for bananas marketed during the two-month period
preceding the month of application.

This timetable currently allows for the possibility of
paying five advances. To take account of cash-flow prob-
lems on the part of producers, pending the deter-
mination of the compensatory aid and the payment of
the balance, provision should be made for the possibility
of payment of a sixth advance for bananas marketed
during the months of November and December.

The necessary provisions should be adopted to this end
and specific administrative arrangements should be laid
down for aid for the year 2000.

(1)

(2)

(3)

(4)

Article 1

Article 7(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 1858/93 is replaced by the
following:

‘2.

Applications shall be submitted:

(a) in the case of advances, at the latest on 30 March, 30
May, 30 July, 30 September and 30 November of the
marketing year and at the latest on 30 January of the
year following that
in respect of which the aid is
applied for,
for bananas marketed during the two-
month period preceding the month of application;

(b) in the case of payment of the balance of the aid, at the
latest on 10 February of the year following that in
respect of which the aid is applied for.

The balance shall comprise the adjustment
to the
amounts paid for bananas marketed during the periods
referred to in point (a), on the basis of the definitive
amount of aid.

In the case of the compensatory aid in respect of 2000,
applications for advances for bananas marketed in
November and December shall be submitted by 30
March 2001 and applications for payment of
the
balance shall be submitted by 11 April 2001.’

Article 2

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

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, 8 March 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 47, 25.2.1993, p. 1.
(2) OJ L 31, 2.2.2001, p. 2.
(3) OJ L 170, 13.7.1993, p. 5.
(4) OJ L 170, 6.7.1999, p. 7.