Commission Regulation (EC) No 1880/2001 of 26 September 2001 amending Regulation (EC) No 1621/1999 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 as regards aid for the cultivation of grapes to produce certain varieties of dried grapes
Date: 2001-09-26
Institutions: European Commission
Subjects: dried product, grape, production aid

L 258/14

EN

Official Journal of the European Communities

27.9.2001

COMMISSION REGULATION (EC) No 1880/2001

of 26 September 2001

amending Regulation (EC) No 1621/1999 laying down detailed rules for the application of Council
Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 as regards aid for the cultivation of grapes to produce certain varieties
of dried grapes

THE COMMISSION OF THE EUROPEAN COMMUNITIES,

Having regard to the Treaty establishing the European
Community,

Having regard to Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/96 of 28
October 1996 the common organisation of the markets in
processed fruit and vegetable products (1), as last amended by
Regulation (EC) No 1239/2001 (2), and in particular Article
7(5) thereof,

without prejudice to the transitional provisions laid
down in Article 13(2)(d). In view of the amendment
made to these transitional provisions for the 2001/02
marketing year,
the final date for concluding the
contracts should be put back to 30 September 2001 for
that year.

(3)

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

Whereas:

(1)

Article 13(2)(d) of Commission Regulation (EC) No
1621/1999 of 22 July 1999 laying down detailed rules
for the application of Council Regulation (EC) No 2201/
96 as regards aid for the cultivation of grapes of produce
certain varieties of dried grapes (3), as amended by Regu-
lation (EC) No 2256/1999 (4), provides, in the case of
operators who have benefited from the measures
provided for in Council Regulation (EC) No 399/94 of
21 February 1994 concerning specific measures for
dried grapes (5), as amended by Regulation (EC) No
2826/2000 (6), for transitional measures as regards the
obligation to use stackable plastic boxes for the delivery
of unprocessed dried grapes. In response to a request
from Greece, which has reported supply difficulties in
the case of
these transitional measures
should be extended, as an exceptional measure, for one
year and, in order to do so, a minimum interim rate of
75 % should be fixed for the quantities delivered and
stored in these boxes for the 2001/02 marketing year.

these boxes,

HAS ADOPTED THIS REGULATION:

Article 1

Article 13(2) of Regulation (EC) No 1621/1999 is amended as
follows:

1. point (c) is replaced by the following:

‘(c) The contracts referred to in Article 5 shall be signed
between producers or producer organisations and
processors who have lodged an application for registra-
tion in the database before the contracts are concluded;
contracts for the 1999/2000, 2000/01 and 2001/02
marketing years shall be concluded by 1 November
1999, 1 September 2000 and 30 September 2001
respectively.’

2. the third indent of point (d) is replaced by the following:

‘— at least 75 % of the quantities delivered and stored in

the course of the 2001/02 marketing year.’

(2)

Article 5(1) of Regulation (EC) No 1621/1999 lays
down that the contracts must be concluded by 1 August
before the marketing year in question and must require
the individual producer or producer organisation to
deliver all harvested quantities in stackable plastic boxes,

Article 2

This Regulation shall enter into force on the day of its publica-
tion 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, 26 September 2001.

For the Commission

Franz FISCHLER

Member of the Commission

(1) OJ L 297, 21.11.1996, p. 29.
(2) OJ L 171, 26.3.2001, p. 1.
(3) OJ L 192, 24.7.1999, p. 21.
(4) OJ L 275, 26.10.1999, p. 13.
(5) OJ L 54, 25.2.1994, p. 3.
(6) OJ L 328, 23.12.2000, p. 2.