Commission Regulation (EC) No 940/2001 of 14 May 2001 amending Regulation (EEC) No 2282/90 laying down detailed rules for increasing the consumption and utilisation of apples and the consumption of citrus fruit
Date: 2001-05-14
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: citrus fruit, consumer information, economic support, food consumption, pip fruit, sales promotion

L 132/14

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

15.5.2001

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 940/2001

of 14 May 2001

amending Regulation (EEC) No 2282/90 laying down detailed rules for increasing the consumption
and utilisation of apples and the consumption of citrus fruit

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1195/90 of 7
May 1990 on measures to increase the consumption and utili-
sation of apples (1), and in particular Article 5 thereof,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EEC) No 1201/90 of 7
May 1990 on measures to increase the consumption of citrus
fruit (2), and in particular Article 4 thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

(3)

Commission Regulation (EEC) No 2282/90 (3), as last
amended by Regulation (EC) No 1375/2000 (4),
lays
down the detailed rules for increasing the consumption
and utilisation of apples and the consumption of citrus
fruit.

Regulation (EEC) No 2282/90 provides that, after scru-
tiny by the Management Committee for Fruit and Veget-
ables, the Commission is to draw up a list of successful
applications for Community financial assistance before
30 June of the year following their submission.

for

agricultural products on the

Article 15(4) of Council Regulation (EC) No 2826/2000
of 19 December 2000 on information and promotion
actions
internal
market (5) stipulates that the provisions of Regulations
(EEC) No 1195/90 and (EEC) No 1201/90 are to remain
applicable to programmes decided before the entry into
force of the Regulation implementing Regulation (EC)
No 2826/2000. In view of the time limits for adopting
the implementing Regulation, the programmes for the
2001/02 marketing year will be adopted by the
Commission under the rules in force. Certain Member
States were not able to submit their applications before
31 December 2000 because they were awaiting the
entry into force of the Regulation implementing Regula-
tion (EC) No 2826/2000 during the first half of 2001.
For the purposes of fairness, the time limits for lodging

the applications that were not submitted should be reop-
ened. The various time limits laid down in Articles 5 and
6 of Regulation (EEC) No 2282/90 should also be
adjusted for the 2001/02 marketing year.

(4)

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

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Regulation (EEC) No 2282/90 is amended as follows:

1. In Article 5:

(a) paragraph 1 is replaced by the following:

‘The application for financing shall be lodged with the
competent body in the Member State in which the
group or responsible partner is based not later than 31
May. The application shall contain all the information
set out in Annex II.’

(b) the second subparagraph of paragraph 4 is replaced by

the following:

‘These documents,
applications
rejected and the reasons for their rejection, shall be
submitted no later than 15 June.’

together with the

2. In Article 6, the following is added to the first paragraph:

‘However, for applications submitted before 15 June 2001
the Commission shall draw up the list no later than 31 July
2001.’

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the seventh 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, 14 May 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 119, 11.5.1990, p. 53.
(2) OJ L 119, 11.5.1990, p. 65.
(3) OJ L 205, 3.8.1990, p. 8.
(4) OJ L 156, 29.6.2000, p. 27.
(5) OJ L 328, 23.12.2000, p. 2.