Commission Regulation (EC) No 1670/2001 of 20 August 2001 providing for compensation to producer organisations for tuna delivered to the processing industry between 1 October and 31 December 2000
Date: 2001-08-20
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: fishery product, market intervention, monetary compensatory amount, producer organisation, production quota, sea fish

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COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1670/2001

of 20 August 2001

providing for compensation to producer organisations for tuna delivered to the processing
industry between 1 October and 31 December 2000

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

(4)

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 104/2000 of 17
December 1999 on the common organisation of the market in
fishery and aquaculture products (1), and in particular Article
27(6) thereof,

Whereas:

(1)

(2)

to be granted under

Until 31 December 2000, Article 18 of Council Regula-
tion (EEC) No 3759/92 of 17 December 1992 on the
common organisation of the market in fishery and aqua-
culture products (2), which was repealed by Regulation
(EC) No 104/2000, provided for a compensatory allow-
to
ance
Community tuna producer organisations for quantities
of tuna delivered to the processing industry during the
calendar quarter for which prices had been recorded,
where both the average quarterly selling price recorded
on the Community market and the free-at-frontier price
plus any applicable countervailing charge were lower
than 91 % of the Community producer price for the
product concerned.

certain conditions

An examination of the situation on the Community
market in the year 2000 has shown that between 1
October and 31 December of that year both the average
quarterly selling price and the free-at-frontier price as
referred to in Article 18 of Regulation (EEC) No 3759/
92 for yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) weighing not
more than 10 kg each, bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) and
skipjack or stripe-bellied bonito (Euthynnus (Katsuwonus)
pelamis) were lower
the Community
producer price in force, as laid down in Council Regula-
tion (EC) No 2748/1999 (3).

than 91 % of

(5)

(6)

(7)

(8)

Entitlement to the compensatory allowance should be
determined on the basis of sales covered by invoices
bearing a date falling within the quarter concerned and
which have been used to calculate the average monthly
selling price referred to in Article 7(1)(b) of Commission
Regulation (EEC) No 2210/93 (4), which was repealed
with effect from 1 January 2001 by Regulation (EC) No
80/2001 (5).

The level of the compensation provided for in Article
18(2) of Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92 may not in any
case exceed either the difference between the triggering
threshold and the average selling price of the product in
question on the Community market or a flat-rate
amount equivalent to 12 % of that threshold.

The quantities on which compensation as provided for
in Article 18(1) of Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92 is
payable may under no circumstances exceed the limits
laid down in paragraph 3 of that Article for the quarter
concerned.

stripe-bellied bonito (Euthynnus

The quantities of bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus) and skip-
(Katsuwonus)
jack or
pelamis) sold and delivered to the processing industry
established in the customs territory of the Community
were higher during the quarter concerned than the
quantities sold and delivered during the same quarter of
the three previous fishing years. Since those quantities
exceed the limit set in Article 27(3) of Regulation (EC)
No 104/2000, the total quantities of those products on
which compensation is payable should therefore be
limited.

In accordance with the ceilings laid down in Article
18(4) of Regulation (EEC) No 3759/92 for the purpose
of calculating the allowance to be granted to each
producer organisation,
the quantities on which the
allowance is payable should be allocated among the
producer organisations concerned in proportion to the
quantities produced by them in the same quarter of the
1997, 1998 and 1999 fishing years.

(3)

The conditions laid down by Regulation (EEC) No 3759/
92 should be retained in order to take a decision on
granting the compensatory allowance on the products in
question for the period from 1 October to 31 December
2000.

(9)

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

(1) OJ L 17, 21.1.2000, p. 22.
(2) OJ L 388, 31.12.1992, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 331, 23.12.1999, p. 28.

(4) OJ L 197, 6.8.1993, p. 8.
(5) OJ L 13, 17.1.2001, p. 3.

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HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 2

Article 1

The total quantities on which the allowance for these

1.
species is payable shall be:

The compensatory allowance to producer organisations for
tuna delivered to the processing industry shall be granted for
the period from 1 October to 31 December 2000 in respect of
the following products:

Product

(EUR/tonne)

Maximum
allowance

Yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares) weighing not
more than 10 kg each

Bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus)

Skipjack or stripe-bellied bonito [Euthynnus (Katsu-
wonus) pelamis]

43

100

83

tuna

(Thunnus

albacares)

Yellowfin
weighing not more than 10 kg each: 6 343,034 tonnes
Bigeye tuna (Thunnus obesus):
1 444,982 tonnes
Skipjack
stripe-bellied
[Euthynnus (Katsuwonus) pelamis]:

16 290,744 tonnes.

bonito

or

The allocation of the total quantity among the producer
in the Annex

2.
organisations concerned shall be as set out
hereto.

Article 3

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, 20 August 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

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Allocation among producer organisations of quantities of tuna on which the compensatory allowance is payable
for the period from 1 October to 31 December 2000, broken down by compensation percentage band

ANNEX

1.

2.

3.

Yellowfin tuna
(Thunnus albacares)
weighing not more than 10 kg each

Quantities 100 %
of which is eligible
for compensation

Quantities 50 %
of which is eligible
for compensation

Total quantites on which
compensation
is payable

(tonnes)

Opagac

OPTUC

OP 42 (Can.)

Orthongel

APASA

Madeira

2 092,707

3 734,542

0

38,073

0

0

0

126,247

0

351,465

0

0

2 092,707

3 860,789

0

389,538

0

0

EU — Total

5 865,322

477,712

6 343,034

Bigeye tuna
(Thunnus obesus)

Quantities 100 %
of which is eligible
for compensation

Quantities 50 %
of which is eligible
for compensation

Total quantities on which
compensation
is payable

(tonnes)

Opagac

OPTUC

OP 42 (Can.)

Orthongel

APASA

Madeira

736,913

351,121

0

125,728

0

0

197,520

0

0

33,700

0

0

934,433

351,121

0

159,428

0

0

EU — Total

1 213,762

231,220

1 444,982

Skipjack or stripe-bellied
bonito
(Euthynnus (katsuwonus) pelamis)

Quantities 100 %
of which is eligible
for compensation

Quantities 50 %
of which is eligible
for compensation

Total quantities on which
compensation
is payable

(tonnes)

Opagac

OPTUC

OP 42 (Can.)

Orthongel

APASA

Madeira

4 615,632

7 963,087

0

148,462

68,077

0

0

1 031,293

0

4 615,632

8 994,380

0

2 434,360

2 582,822

29,833

0

97,910

0

EU — Total

12 795,258

3 495,486

16 290,744