Amended proposal for a Council Regulation introducing specific measures for certain agricultural products for the Azores and Madeira (presented by the Commission pursuant to Article 250 (2) of the EC Treaty)
Date: 2001-03-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: Azores, EU regional policy, Madeira, derogation from EU law, farming sector, milk product, peripheral region, production quota

26.6.2001

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

C 180 E/247

Amended proposal for a Council Regulation introducing specific measures for certain agricultural
products for the Azores and Madeira (1)

(2001/C 180 E/22)

COM(2001) 156 final (cid:151) 2000/0314(CNS)

(Submitted by the Commission pursuant to Article 250(2) of the EC Treaty on 15 March 2001)

their

the
exceeding
percentage referred to in subparagraph 3 shall be deemed
to have contributed to the overrun.

reference quantity

increased by

The additional levy shall be due on quantities exceeding the
increased reference quantity after reallocation of the unused
quantities within the margin resulting from this increase
among the producers referred to in the first subparagraph
and in proportion to the reference quantity available to each
producer.

The percentage referred to in the first subparagraph shall be
equal to the ratio between the quantity of 73 000 tonnes
and the total of the reference quantities available on each
holding on 31 March 2000. It shall apply for each producer
only to the reference quantities available to that producer on
31 March 2000.

The quantities of milk or milk equivalent marketed
2.
which exceed the reference quantities but which comply
with the percentage referred to in paragraph 1, after the
reallocation referred to in that same paragraph, shall not
be taken into account
in establishing any overrun in
first
as
Portugal
sentence of Article 2(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3950/92.

calculated in accordance with the

Article 21b

Prior to their entry into force, the Portuguese Republic shall
notify the Commission of measures taken pursuant
to
Article 21a.

Article 21c

In accordance with the procedure provided for in Article
29(2), the Commission shall, where necessary, adopt the
measures necessary for the application of Article 21a.(cid:146)

1. The following recital is added:

This

on milk

production.

Agricultural

a period of

activity in the Azores

is highly
(cid:145)(17a)
dependent
dependence,
combined with other handicaps linked to their extreme
remoteness and the absence of viable alternative production,
is detrimental to their economic development. The needs of
local consumption in those islands covered by local
production should be taken into account and some of the
provisions of the common market organisation for milk and
milk products on limiting output should be derogated from
for
four marketing years beginning in
1999/2000 in order to take account of the level of devel-
local production.
opment of and the
conditions
second
Although this measure
from the
the EC Treaty,
subparagraph of Article 34(2) of
is
it
restricted to milk producers
in the Azores and is of
marginal economic impact when compared with the total
quota for Portugal. It should enable the sector in the Azores
the period of
to continue being
application of
interfering with the
milk market and without appreciably affecting the sound
working of the levy scheme at Portuguese or Community
level.(cid:146)

this measure without

restructured over

derogates

for

2. The following Articles 21a to 21c are inserted after Article
21 in Section 1 (Livestock and milk products) of Chapter III
(Measures to assist local products in the Azores) of Title II
(Measures to assist local products):

(cid:145)Article 21a

sharing the additional

1.
For a transitional period covering the 1999/2000,
2000/01, 2001/02 and 2002/03 marketing years, for the
purposes of
levy between the
producers referred to in the second sentence of Article
2(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3950/92 (2), only producers
that Regulation established
as defined in Article 9(c) of
and producing in the Azores, who market quantities

(1) OJ C 96 E, 27.3.2001, p. 301.
(2) OJ L 405, 31.12.1992, p. 1. Regulation as last amended by Regu-

lation (EC) No 749/2000 (OJ L 90, 12.4.2000, p. 4).